The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-06
FOOTBALL GOSSIP
 ABOUT THE TIGER TEAM.

ABOUT THE TIGER TEAM. There will be many driving parties at the football game this afternoon, and the presence of the visiting college men in the city will be the occasion of several smart events at which the visitors from the University of the South will be guests of honor.
 The dance at the Country club tonight will be the gayest dance of the season and the balconies at the little club house will be quite as popular as in Indian summer so balmy are these early November even ings. There will be a breakfast tomor- row at the Hillman in compliment to the Sewanee men, and altogether there will really be very little else to gossip about for the next twenty-four hours. A foot ball enthusiast sends me a very chatty note about the Sewanee men, and shall take the liberty of making several ex- tracts
 MT Vernon s. Tupper, manager of the Sewanee aggregation, is no longer broiler. He was a bright young business man, ere he exchanged the ledger for | cap and gown of which semi-occasional he Is business manager this year. He is also editor-in-chief of the Purple" the students organ at the University of the | South. Mir. Tupper Is also secretary to vice-chancellor, and is sometimes called the Little V. C. He is said to be no end of ladies' man.
 MT. Rupert MacPherson Colinore, the star player of the Tigers, is not yet a voter. It is stated that the ancient chest nut oaks, about Sewanee's picturesque and roamntic walks, could whisper-had they the tongues of gossips: How much more elder art thou than thy looks! MT. Colmore is of English descent on both sides; and comes of a football family. His father, the commissary of the Univer- sity of the South, played the game in the old country; his eldest brother, the lamented Harry Colmore, was a great tackle and guard, in great Sewanee days. 'Parson Charlie the second brother, has served his time on the team; playing a great "half." and last year managing it. The present half is reticent and quiet; but they do say
 "Six-foo three Captain Phillips is credited with being the most modest man on the entire Tiger squad. He keeps gun
  for photo-stalxing pressmen; and his inti- mates say that he ever turns his back to the camera, when duty calls him to be taken-by the camera How often he has been taken in other fashions. the rela- ton will be spared his blushes.
 If his lightweight brother guard, Dr. H. T. Lemoine, is a dancing man or not can best be judged by the autumn girls who see him forward to the Auburn partner in todays quadrille. They say he is the hardest man in the team to hold" Rshaw! He has never been tackled by a Magic Cheyenne.
 MT. J. Lee Kirby-Smith Is legitimite gime, from his position, for any fair player to tackle" Maybe he wouldn't be left" then, in real play. He is said to be society man from far and away; and no more afraid of the masked batte- ry of feminine eyes than his gallant old sire was of blue-coat odds.
 'It is a source of genuine signing in Birmingham society that the star lady killer of the Tiger team was kept at Se- vance by-hard study. What do those snuffy old Dons know about the needs of society, anyway? All the home girls, just graduated out of the summer uni- versty, are signing. How happy could you be with either, were 'tother old book worm away!
 MT. w. H. Davis has a great record for long runs. If he wishes to try for one here-well, winter vacation is coming on. If he doesn't take this hint, he will never be "called back though he will remain off side This isn't Knoxvillel
 MT. Osborne, all agree. is the most obliging man on the honor roll of the Tigers He is always In real earnest in his work, either at his mission in the roountsin coves or on the pig-skinning ea,d All the girls who see his photo- eraph wonder If he really is in earnest always?
 One german dancing girl is trying to find out the answer to this conundrum; of MT. Stewart were at a german and chanced to fall on his own proper full hack would he cry out to his partner: | why don't somebody help me up?' But he is not likely to get in that position l socially.
 | "Center Miles Watkins is an Alabama boy. and one his state will be proud of. even if he helps to beat her team He is l frank and manly enough to warrant a summer girl in rushing Miles to get him. '' | nEETlNG