THE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
September 23—New Hampshire State at Hanover.
September 30—Boston . College at Hanover.
October 7—Lebanon Valley College at Hanover.
October 14—M. A. C. at Hanover.
October 21—Georgetown University at Hanover.
October 28—Princeton at Princeton.
November 4—Syracuse at Springfield.
November 11—Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
November 18—West Virginia at Hanover.
Upon the announcement of a schedule containing five new teams with the final game of the season in Hanover for the first time since the adoption of modern football, the opinion of the College was divided. The problem of the Athletic Council for several years past has been to secure early season games which gave the team a real tryout before the Princeton contest.
The Princeton game next year is a week later and is preceded by five games, four of which are with teams not on the 1915 schedule. The opening of the season, September 23, marks the first football game with New Hampshire State College in ten years. The following week Boston College will appear on the Oval and a week later Lebanon Valley College of Annville, Pa., will meet the Green. On October 14 the Mass. Aggies, who have opened the Green's schedule for the past few years, will appear in Hanover and the last game before the Princeton contest will be played with Georgetown University October 21. After the Princeton game October 28, the Hanover eleven plays Syracuse in Springfield on the date formerly occupied by Penn and the next week plays its last game away from home with Penn in Philadelphia. The final game of the season is with West Virginia on Alumni Oval.
The Athletic Council has apparently succeeded in remedying the common complaint that the varsity's preparation for the Princeton game is insufficient, and that the team which lines up against the Tigers every year is untried and inexperienced. Yet while the College appreciates fully the efforts of the council, everyone realizes that the 1916 schedule is again transitional, a state of affairs which cannot be entirely satisfactory. It is apparent that Dartmouth must acquire a list of games which can be counted upon each year and which are of the Green's calibre.
