The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-23
GREAT GAME SATURDAY
AUBURN AND VANDERBILT TO
 PLAY AT CL0VERDALE.
Teams Will Select Sponsors and Maids of Honor and Occasion Will Be Made a Society
 Event.

Not since an autumn day in 1899 when Auburn and Sewanee played the most intensely exciting football game ever witnessed in the South has anything like the interest in the gridiron sport been felt in Montgomery that is taken in the AuburnVanderbilt game to be played here Saturday.
 A deep and abiding respect has been created for the Vanderbilt team since its decisive victory over the University of Georgia in Nashville Saturday. While it Is admitted that the Auburn team of this year Is not quite up to the average of several years past, it's game in Bir- mingham Saturday shows that the same team work, Quickness. skillful trick plays and bulldog courage has been instilled into the players by Billy Williams that has made the Auburn team In years gone by he most famous in the South.
 Vanderbilt this year is using the same style of play that Auburn used last sea son, and this fact alone tends to lend an added interest to the game Saturday. man, had charge of the Auburn team and the fast work of the Tigers was drilled into the Auburn men by him. The success of that style of play was shown Dy the smooth manner with which they defea' ed Tuscaloosa last Autumn in Montgomery. This year Watkins is coach of the Vanderbilt team and its work speaks In volumes for his training. The team has played three games this season defeating Kentucky State College by score of P to 0, Central University 25 to o and University of Georgia 4S to 0. to date and one of them not a college game. That team beat the Montgomery Athletic Club B to and was defeated by the Universit" of Nashville 23 to D. TEa Infi fnn hnr is about as fast as most of the college teams, and the game with Auburn proved the strength of the Auburn line Auburn and Vanderbilt have not met each other in years, and as Vanderbilt is lhe great est rival of Sewanee-except Auburn--of course the interest in the game ne<s Saturday is unusually high. Auburn's de- feat last Saturday has put the team on its mettle and the men are working like Trojans this week. Billy Williams Is put ting in every moment possible.
 it can readily be stated that he is not letting any grass grow under his feet and 'The Commodores'' will get all the work this week that they need Tax tfere will be the fiercest struggle ever known in Southern football when the Orange and Black of Auburn and the Gold and Black of Vanderbilt will clash at Cloverdale Saturday.
 The field is fast as lightning and there is no sign of a break in this ideal autumn weather before Saturday, so everything seems to be combining to make the game circles. The goal posts at each end of the field are already in place, but to avoid the chances of an accident new cross pieces will be put on the tops where the oval sails over whenever either Is fortunate enough to have try-at-goal. The field will be cleared of all weeds and undergrowth that happens to be in bounds and substantial wire fence Is being erected entirely around the field. This fence while 1t will be great assistance towards keeping the paper by itselm. The city authorities have promised to detail six or eight po- trolmen from the Police Departemnt. Nobody will be allowed on the field ex- cept the officials, badges being given ev- erybody who Is required to be inside the fence, and the orders of the patrolmen are to arrest the first person going inside the fence, except in the intermission be- tween the first and second halves.
 In the Auburn-Nashvllle game Satur- day end runs were rendered almost i'm possible by reason of crowds blocking the way, and it is to be hoped that this will not be duplicated in Montgomery Sat urday.
 The game will be quite a society event. Each team will have sponsor and maid of honor who with representatives of the two teams will be driven to Cloverdale in gaily bedecked traps.
 Manager Nixon of last years Auburn team was III the GUY yesterday making preliminary arrangements, Manag r Bragg being busy helping Coach Will Hams with the hard work of the team this week.
 The names of the four young ladies to reu esent Auburn and Vanderbilt will be announced today, a telegram from Van derbilt last night asking Auburn to select it's sponsor and maid of honor. Vehicles will be allowed in the grounds as usual but no carriages or traps Will be allowed at either end of the field. the vehicles being banked on the two sides of the big gridiron. By this means persons in the grand stand will have an uninterrupted view of the field. Squire Brown.