The age-herald., 1900-11-27
GREAT FOOTBALL
 GAME EXPECTED
Clemson and Tuscaloosa Will
 Fight It Out Thursday
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE
Coach Heisman of Clemson is in the City and Says His Team Will Show Birmingham Some
 Fas: Playing.

Only a few more days remain before the football teams of Clemson and Tuscaloosa meet each other in what is destined to be one of the finest exhibitions of football playing ever seen in Birmingham.
 Coach Heisman of Clemson arrived in the city last night and is busy making Manager Wellborn of the University team is expected tomorrow.
 The Clemson team will arrive on Wednes- day night at 10 o'clock, but not much of them will be seen before Thursday morn ing, as Heisman says he will send his men to bed as soon as they arrive.
 The Clemson team is said to be a won der-easily the best in the South this year. After their game with Georgia the Georgia college paper had this to say of the Clem- son team:
 'They played the fastest ball we have ever seen and their team work has never been equaled in the South.''
 The Athens correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution reported that the Clemson team "coached by Heisman, the most suc- SSSSLul lIdluSI III lH0 OOulu, COulu SdSlly defeat Sewanee."
 Such notices as these have followed the work of Clemson in every game they have played this year.
 Clemson Record.
 The games they have thus far played
 Clemson, 64; Davidson College, 0.
 Clemson, 21; Wofford College, O.
 Clemson, 51; South Carolina College, 0.
 Clemson, 39, University of Georgia, 5.
 Clemson, F; V. P. l., 5.
 Clemson has thus played five years, win ming them all. Their first game stands as the point record in the South for this sea- son. Against Wofford they were bound by agreement to score only four touchdowns and then they scored in the first seven and one-half minutes of the game, playing all the rest of the game on the defensive for practices sake. South Carolina was the team that played a tie game with Georgia, 5 to 5, but Clemson showed them under by 51 to 0. Against Georgia Sewanee could only excel by 15 points, but Clemson topped Georgia 34 points-more than double Se- wanees number; and finally, on last Sat urday, came Clemson's browning glory, when she beat the Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute of Blacksburg, Va, by a score of 12 to 5, in Charlotte N. c. The Virginia Poly technic Institute team had up to this game been considered the best team in the South, for she had played "a to 0 game with North Carolina on the latter's own campus, and that after the Virginia team had had one hard game with the A. & M. team in Raleigh the very day before. But in Clem- son they met their Waterloo, for the near est they ever got to the South Carolinians' goal was the 37-yard line, from which point they kicked a most beautiful goal from the field This ended their scoring, while Clem- son made a touchdown in each half by the most beautiful driving team work and the most brilliant handling of the ball ever seen in that section.
 From this it can be seen that Birming ham is fortunate in having chance to see this great team play this season, and that when they will be at the very height of their power and football excellence.
 The University Team.
 On the other hand the university boys are to be considered. They have improved re- markedly of late and are determined to wind up the season with the best game they have ever played. All their injured men have entirely recovered and there is no doubt that they will put up the fight of their lives on Thursday afternoon. The game will be called at about clock and it is expected that there will be an attend ance of at least 5000 enthusiastic specta- tors and adherents of the rival teams The University will probably bring 400 on their excursion while here in Birmingham their friends and admirers number many hun dreds more. Society will be there in force and parties are being made up all over the city to go in any and every kind of vehicle imaginable. Alabamas colors are crimson and white, and those of Clemson orange and royal purple. On Thursday the streets will be alive with the co'ors and the air resonant with college yalls. Ire lovers of sport hope 10 see a large attend ance at the game as they say it will en- courage Southern teams to mako Birm1ng- ham their regular stamping ground. There are many lovers of football hers and if the game proves the financial success there is no doubt but another season will wit ness half dozen first-class games played in this city.