The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-25
THE LONG-HAIRED BOYS
FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO REACH
 MONTGOMERY TONIGHT.
Everything is in Readiness for Great Game Between Auburn and Van :. derbilt Tomorrow-Strength
 of the Teams.

Everything is ready for the big foot ball game tomorrow, and more favor able conditions in every respect could not possibly be desired The superb weather of the past two weeks has made the gr ,unds at the baseball park as fast as lightning. The field tomorrow will be hard and firm as an asphalt pave ment and sharp, quick work with no ex- cuse for fumbling will be the order.
 Both teams will reach Montgomery to- night. Wander bilt will arrive on the 7:25 o'clock Louisville and Nashville train and Auburn on the $40 o'clock or 9:20 o'clock Western train. When the col lege boys arrive they will find the city gaily hedected in holiday attire. Stream CTS and bunting will be everywhere. While the cause of this decoration is the of them the college colors of Auburn ors are orange and purple.
 Most of the gentlemen furnishing stores in the city have their show win dows filled with the colors of the two colleges. Natty walking canes with streamers of the gold and black of Van derbilt are conspicuous and others show the orange and blue of Auburn. In sev- eral of the dry goods stores the windows are filled with beautiful parasols With punches of the college colors tied on the handles. Tomorrow morning the city will he a blaze of color and there will be col lege yells and good natured racket.
 private letter received from Auburn says that Coach Williams has made won derful development in the team during the past week, and that the defeat by Nashville Saturday. instead of discour- aging the boys, has given them conti- dCnce in themselves an1 put them their mettle 50 that they will put up a swift article of football tomorrow.
 The following letter was received from Vanderbilt last night: The Vanderbilt Friday morning at o'clock. The men are all in fine condition for the game and intend to make It warm for Auburn. The :eam will be rigert. left end; Lawler, left tackle; Hughes, left guard; Perry. center; Crutchfield, right guard; Booth. right tackle; Simmons right end; Hume, quarterback; Davis, left half; Kyle, right half, and Edgerton captain, fullback.
 ''Tigert left end, is tall and heavy. He played sub-full on last seasons eleven. Lawler is new man at left tackle, but is playing a good gamo. lie was sub ihwlh-d utcm:u?v w'difli;ur gm imswdcd
 Hughes is at his old position which he held all last season and will give a good account of himself.
 Perry is new man at center, but he can take care of his part of the work all right.
 "Crutchfield has played right guard be- lore put not TOT lne DuSI two seasons. He handles himself better than in any previous year and makes his weight count. Simmons. at right end. has played the position number of years, and Is one of the best in the South.
 Hume is another new man, but he is quick and fast on his feet and has a rood cool head. His interference is as pretty as any ever seen of Nanderbilts field
 Davis, left half, is playing star game this year. He hits the line hard, and is mean man to tackle.
 Kyle. right baf. is freshman from Moneys school. He Is a good man, a good ground gancr and plays fierce de- fensVe game.
 Captain Edgerton. who last year was the best line bucking back in tine South, is at full this year, and is doing good work in his new position
 Not only in Montgomery, but all over esting day in football circles, and several games in the South will be watched with interest Tuscaloosa has q game tomor- row with the University of Mississippi sity of Georgia in Montgomery on No vember 9 there will be great curiosity to see how the boys have developed under Mike HarVey'S coaching. Last year Tuscaloosa beat Mississippi By a score of l2 to and the team last l year was nothing like the strong asere- gation. that they are said to have this year On form therefore. Tuscaloosa | should have an easy thing in tomorrows 1 game, unless Mississippi has developed as rapidly as Tuscaloosa. Another interesting game tomorrow will | be the University of Nashville and the | University of Tennessee in Nashville. | Tuscaloosa will play the University of | Tennessee in Birmingham Thanksgiving | Day and the Alabama boys are naturally | anxious to see how the Tennessee lads | perform tomorrow against the team that | played Texas to a standstill and defeated | Auburn. Vanderbilt will meet both Tennessee | and Nashville this season and of course | they have an interest in the game in Nashville tomorrow. Last year Van ior- | bilt defeated Nashville but Tennessee | played them a tie game. Tennessee and l Nashville both have stronger teams ths year than they had last year. The University of Georgia game will | also be an interesting game from the fact | that Georgia and Tuscaloosa will meet in 1 Montgomery next month.
 In the East the Big Four" Princeton. Yale, University of PemsYlVania and l Harvard have important games while the l smaller Eastern colleges also have games. | All in all tomorrow will be the first really | important day of the 1901 football season. | and the beautiful weather promises to | bring out huge crowds ever ywhere.
 Squire Brown,