The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-16
STARTLING PERFORMANCES
 OF SOME M'CURDY HORSES
Direct Hal, Born and Reared in LOWndeS COun ty Proves WOnder--Auburn and University Pre-
 pare for the Great Struggle.

and this will mitigate the result 10 certain extent. The game between Au- burn and Tuscaloosa in Birmingham Sat- urday promises to be one of the most in. tensely interesting that has ever taken place between the two Alabama institu- tions. Since 1892 five games have been played by Tuscaloosa and Auburn. the latter wining four of them and Tuscaloo- sa landing one. In '92 at Birmingham Auburn beat Tuscaloosa g to 6, beating the next year 4S to 0. In 1894 Tuscaloosa beat Auburn IS to 0. This was the cele- brated team that Eli Abbott, Jim Shel- ley, etc., were members of This game and the one of '93 both being played here in Montgomery. After the year of '9i the faculty of Tuscaloosa for some req son sat down hard on college athletics and for the next six years such thing as a Tuscaloosa football team was un- hslrd of. Malcombe Griffin, an old Uni versity man. had charge of the first team turned out from the University after the faculty had emancipated athletics and in 1900 here in Montgomery Auburn rollel up B points though the Tuscaloosa team got through their line, failing. however, to kick goal after the touchdown, the final score being 5 to 5. Last year Mike Harvey, an old Auburn man, was coach for the Tuscaloosa team and they held Auburn down to 17 points. failing. how ever. to get through the Auburn line, the final score being F to 0 in favor of Au- burn. The rivalry is something intense and If the game was made an annual affair here the strong box of the athlet'c fund of the two institutions would look Ike 1t had case of dropsy. A big des gation of old Auburn and Tuscaloo sa men will leave Montgomery Saturday morning for the game in Birmingham Saturday afternoon, and there will prob ably be more orange and blue and crim- son and white-colors of Auburn and Tuscaloosa-sold in the next few days than for several years past.
 The rooters that pack the side lines and hang on to the ropes will have more exercise this year than ever before from the fact that last summer a rule was made changing the goal after every touchdown.
 A number of minor changes are made for the sake of clearness, and rule 12, which refers to the length of the game. states that the referee shall, when he thinks that darkness is eikely to cut short the game, arbitrarily shorten the two halves, and that refusal to abide by the referees opinion shall mean forfeit ure of the game.
 Rule Is, section B, Is a decided change, although how much 1t will affect the play only a seasons work can determine. This paragraph reads: Tn snapping the ball back, If the player doing so Is offside the bal must be snapped again. and if this occurs more than once on the same down the opponents shall receive five yards ,the number of the down and the point to be gained remaining unchang- ed"
 The penalty thus becomes loss of five yards instead of loss of the ball, and is less severe.
 Rule IS deals with the grouping of players, and 1t contains, as an exception to section A, the following: "One man of the side having the ball may be in motion toward his own goal without com ing to a stop before the ball is put in play"
 Section c of the same rule explains a point concerning which there has always been much misunderstanding.
 If five players, not including the quar- ter backs. are behing the line of scrim- mage, they must occupy one of the three following positions:
 "O All five of such players may be inside the positions to occur at the ends of the line of scrlmmage, In which case two of these players must be at least five yards of this line.
 "(2) If one of the five players be out side of the position occupied by the play CT at the end of the line. then only one other of these five players must be at least five yards back of the line.
 "C) All five players may be nearer than five yards to the line of scrimmage, provided two of them be outside the po- sitions occupied by the player at ths ends of said line. In this rule outside means outside the outside foot of the players at the end of the line"
 In rule 27 section F, are additional points to still further prevent coaching from the side lines. "Only flve men shall be allowed to walk up and down on each side of the field. No water carriers shall be permitted on the field of play without the consent of the umpire. Violation of this rule will be punishable by five yards
 From the fast game that West Point put up last Saturday Harvard will have tough proposition when they meet the gritty little soldiers st West Point next Saturday. Ylle ought not to have much trouble in their Saturdays game. Old Eli meeting the Pennsylvania State College at New Haven. The Tigers meet the W. and J. College in Princeton. Pennsylvania meets Brown at Philadelphia and from the poor showing that the Quakers made against Virginia and the strong game that Brown played Yale last Saturday it would not be surprising if Brown beats Pennsylvania Saturday. Cornell meets the Carlisle Indians at Ithaca Saturday, but Cornell should not have any trouble in dlsoosng of the red men. Columbia meets Hamilton at New York and their hard game with Buffalo last Saturday