| Show Eastern Ready for Battle Notre Dame Boasts Fine Material for New Campaign By Dy M 1 Special Correspondent of oC Tue rd ht 1926 by The Th Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated I dated Press Association YORK Sept Foot IS-Foot- 1 Foot Foot- Football balls ball's ball major leagues lenues have started their limbering up proc proc- proc proc- tho the hope of g II a ashare share hare of public Interest before next Saturdays Saturday's games Iames open the pi Ing season cuon on more moro than a hundred college fields Gridiron gossip has been Ine ing Itself onto tho the sports ports pages In spite of the high pressure ex- ex exI exerted x I by the tho hectic baseball pen pen- pennant pennant pen pennant nant races and ond yards of com corn comment comment ment mont on the merits of oC Jack Demp- Demp Dempsey sey Demp-sey sey ey and Geno Gene runne Tunney The tang of autumn Is beginning to filter through the th hides hide of the tho American American Ameri Amen can sport port loving lovinc public Football practice began as a general rule on September 1 15 11 the day designated des by Harvard Tale and Princeton the western con con- con conference ference the th Missouri alle valley con con- conference conference con fernc ference and the Pacific coast cout con con- conference con conference ference for tor gridiron mobilization The 22 teams of the th southern louthern con con- conference con conference ference however started work s as usual on the th first Monday of the month while early September starts were made mad by Army Notre Dame Pennsylvania and Cornell There Thero are aro plenty of o high lights visible for the th forthcoming sea sea- season sea season son One On of the th most glaring Is the Infiltration of western toot foot toot ball ball bail Into the tho most mOlt hidebound of eastern football lIar Har Harvard vard yard For the tho first time timo Harvard ard has coaches coches who have havo not played for tho the Crimson Coach Horween Horw eon a time one Harvard star tar and It its I newly named mentor has bas as al assistant assistants as- as Jimmy Brader Crader who played football under John n B Richards at Wisconsin and Chuck Carney American all all end at Illinois a II half balf dozen years back NEW NEV COACHES Annapolis and und West Welt Point have ha new coaches Greeting the who turned out August Aug 28 2 at Navy was as 1 Bill Ingram a 8 former Navy y star tar under Coach Gil Doble Dobie and until lately coach at Indi In Indi- Indi Indiana Indiana ana Armyl Army new nw coach Is Birr J Jones onel succeeding Captain J C McEwan who resigned to become head coach at Oregon Pat lat Page P t went up from Butler university to take lak Ingrams Ingram's place at Indiana and Is the only new coach In the th western vestern conference The Th coachIng status atatu quo Is maintained at ot Yale Yal with I T A D B Jones Jonee at Princeton with Bill BBl Roper at Dartmouth with Jose Jess Hawley at nt Cornell with Gil Do- Do Dobie Dobie Do Doble bie ble at Pennsylvania with Lou Young In the th western conference Alonzo State Stag begins his thirty thirty- thirty fourth fourth year of coaching at ChI ChI- Chicago Chi Chicago cago and Hurry Up tip Yost his sixth twentY sIxth year at Michigan Robert begins his four four- fourteenth fourteenth fourteenth year yer at Illinois George Georgo begins his second year yer at Wisconsin and Dr Spears his second year at Minnesota In the far tar west Clarence Price succeeds to the head hed coaching position held by hy the th late lat Andy Smith at California Howard Jones Jonee larte tart his hi second season eMon at Call California Cornia Pop Warner remains remain at Stanford Paul lor lor br at Oregon Aggie and Bag Bag- Bag Iba at Washington The usual uncertainty prevails pre In pre season prospects Prince Prince- Princeton Princeton ton ton has IS 18 letter men left from the tho big t three champions of 1926 1825 l Hor I Is said eald to regard his Harvard squad quad In general IlS as a av- av average average av average Yale Tale has plenty of backe and Is concentrating on linemen Michigan champion of the west west- western western ern ens conference again has Its two captain and Quarterback and star end Waiter alter Marks a 0 tackle le captains Chicago where observers observer ers era er report Coach Stagg Stagg's I heavy losses among bis his traditional bat bat- bat forces forceR may mayi lead him to adopt the th open style of play ply with more latitude has hIlS a squad and will wl not bo be b able to te build around a single prodigy as during the put past four years ear DANGEROUS Notre Dame with 6 26 2 letter better men back and a host of well groomed freshmen of last year promises again to be b a 0 tartar of ot the grid grid- gridIron gridiron Iron frid-Iron Iron Knute Rockne as a pro pro- pro has hal ha visited at Vest WestPoint Point and Annapolis recently recently-It recently pro pro-I ItIs Is reported he ho may arrange n a 1927 27 game cam with Navy as a well vell as play the th Army and Army and poke spoke ever brightly about his prospects The Th cynosure of or southern out hem con con- con conference ference forence eyes Is Alabama van VIlIl- vanquisher vanquisher of Washington at Pu- Pu Paca-dena Paca I deno clena last It winter and for two years ears conference champion Bus Alabama has lias lost lot heavily lIy from Its 1926 1925 squad In the th Missouri val val- valley val valley ley conference there ther are oro Drake Nebraska Kansas Kansa and Oklahoma who engaged In th the 1925 5 championship scramble It will be bo recalled that when Iowa State beat hent Drake last sea sea- season son ca-son son tion the tho title was wal decided 1 for Cor Missouri although Drake Drako had beaten both Kansas and Nebraska and Nebraska and Kansas had hau defeated Missouri Howard Jones Jonel University of California eleven on eleven tho same Bame that played 13 3 games I I last season Mason and won II 11 Is re- re reI reported reI I I ported to be b the 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