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Show I FOOTBALL PRACTICE Couches Are Busy Lining LTp Valeria I for Season !s H MICHIGAN SHOWS NO H SIGNS OF RELENTING More Games Scheduled on the Gridiron Than Ever in Sport's History. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Sept. 11. It Is Just about H this tinso of the year that promising H undergraduate material nml veteran phiy- l ci-s of varsity football elevens arc rt H ceivlng letters from the team mnagors B requesting them to report for -:ar:v prac- Hoc. The month of September is always H the scene of most pronounced activity Hj among the couches who direct the af- fairs of our college gridiron eomblna-Lions. eomblna-Lions. The most promising material must have as thorough a trial as possible lo-fore lo-fore the candidates turn out In large, numbers, and then It Is usually the case that the physical condition of many vit-erans vit-erans demand all the work possible be-fore be-fore the regular autumn campaign on the PPH chalk-barred Held. While the pigskin will not be set sn'.l-Ing sn'.l-Ing away from the klckoff by the big university players for a week or so, nevertheless other teams will be In the l field before that time. The Cnrlislo In- 1 dians. as is always their wont, tro': on: on tho limc-llncd turf in less than two weeks. Other smaller combination: will line up for actual play about that rime; 1 so It may readily bo seen why football conches are among the busiest pcr.ino-ages pcr.ino-ages in the world these a a vs. Tho day:' H of secret pie-season practice are a thing 1 of the past. However, groups of players of different colleges have been together for the past few weeks, at seashore re-sorts, re-sorts, lotting out the Kliiiis In their arms by forward and other types of passing. As a matter of fact, tho early season "feel" of the pigskin does much toward bringing the men up to their game In short order. While many players have to be worked very hard in the earlier weeks of train -Jng to reduce the embonpoint garnered in an easy summer's existence, others of the moleskin band will bo exempted from considerable of the early season hardships, for manual work during the siumior months has kept them In con-dltion. con-dltion. Harvesting in the wheat fields, vaiious kinds of engineering wonc end life-guard duty arc among tho f-ivorito forms of summer employment for football men whose hearts and souls are tied up in the king of autumn sports. Up at New Haven thirty footballs were given to sons of 1211 Yale so that they could work out during the vacation weeks. To Get at Championship. Although there Is no Intercollegiate as-Koclatlon as-Koclatlon with a round robin scheme, the chances for a determination of the Inter-collegiate Inter-collegiate championship arc much belter this year than last. Last year the honor of being first lay between Harvard and Pennsylvania, but as they did not play each other and met but one common op-ponent, op-ponent, tho Indians in preliminary games, the issue had to bo fought out verbally. Had Cornell played Harvard last fall, as she will do this year, thoro would un-doubtedly un-doubtedly havo been something tangible with which to settle the controversy. This year Harvard plays Yale, Dartmouth and Cornell: Yale meets Princeton and Har-vard; Har-vard; Princeton plays Dartmouth and Pennsylvania meets Cornell. This sched-ulo sched-ulo surely ought to leave some team with the. championship proved. In the middle west the old confederate combination, the "Big Nine," has not been fully restored and will not be until tho University of Michigan returns to the fold. This Michigan shows no dlsposl-Hon dlsposl-Hon to do, although the Wolverines havo stolen a march on tho rulers of tho con-fcrence con-fcrence by arranging a game with the 1'nlverelty of Minnesota. The rulers of the conference thought a few years ago that they had completely ostracised Michigan Mich-igan from tho west when the Michigan delegates refused to swallow some of tho foolish legislation worked out by the conference con-ference professors during those days of hysteria four years ago. Hut this year Michigan has secured a cranio with Minnesota. Min-nesota. Otherwise, tho conference colleges still consist of Chicago, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Illinois, Purdue. Iowa and Northwestern. There have been several efforts on the part of Nebraska to take the place vacated va-cated by Minnesota. But Nebraska Is not yet ready to subscribe to all tho eligibility eligi-bility requirements In the ronferenco code and be still a free lance In western football. foot-ball. There will he even more interscctlonal football than there was last year. The University of Pennsylvania and Michigan Michi-gan meet for the fourth time, while Chicago Chi-cago and Cornell play their second annual game, this time at Ithaca. Michigan and Syracuse also play again, their game taking tak-ing place at Ann Arbor. Another unusual Interscctlonal game scheduled Is that between be-tween Illinois and Syracuse In the lattcr's stadium. On the Paellle coast American college rugby is confined almost entirely to Oregon Ore-gon and Washington, with a few teams in the states adjoining the mon the east. The elimination of "the game at Leland Stanford and the University of California Califor-nia has almost killed rugby football In th.Is coast state. Us place has been taken by association football and English rugby. Packard Moves. The Packard Motor Car company was originally started some eleven years ago as a West Virginia corporation. Tt will hecomo a Michigan corporation September Septem-ber 1, 1909. In reorganizing the company under the Michigan laws the capital stock will bocomc $5,000,000 preferred and $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 common. The enlargement of the capital stock is made to meet the company's com-pany's needs for enlargement of floor space and additional facilities generally. In order to enable the company to avoid night work. Night work is not the Packard Pack-ard Idea of best results, though It can be resorted to for short periods to catch up. It Is the desire of tho company to make its very largo shop a daytime shop. |