The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
BOYS
AUBURN -SEWANEE GAME HERE
 OCTOBER 31.
Montg emery Athletes Will Play Polytechnic Eleven at Auburn Next Saturday-Intsrssted in
 tho Forth Coming Games.

The football season is on In earnest, anu from now until Christmas the lons-haireo heroes will hold the center of the stage to the exclusion of every other kind or sport, the doughty heroes of the mask and mitt and bat being relegated to state of inocuous desuetude unIi the Easter lilies bloom next spring.
 Montgomery will probably be the scene of several battles on the gridiron this sea- son. but the one that Is exciting the most interest is the Auburn-Sewanee game which will be played here on OctoDer ol. This game is to Montgomery what the Princeton or Yale or Harvard games are to Boston or Princeton or Cambrloge' and it Is no exaggeration to say that mo- where in the South can football game arouse anything like the enthusiasm that this game always does in Montgomery.
 Sewanee has possibly more friends In Montgomery than any other of the State colleges, and the upholders of the purple banner never lack supporters Tn MonV gomery. Auburn being a State insututlon naturally has the lions share Of local friendship and sympathy, and this year that will be more so than ever as Montgomery boy-Jim Patterson-is cap tain of the Auburn team.
 Both teams are working hard but tne captains of both teams have not done much talking so far but are saving wood l for all they are worth. Neither team l will be up to the standard of the gridiron giants that fought the most exciting Ioot-
 ball game ever played in Montgomery on
 that famous November day in 19OO Both | teams are said to be lighter than usual
 but they are being whipped into me con | dition and the intense rivalry between | the two insures a red hot game of foot | ball.
 MT. Bates. who is the coach at Auburn
 this year, is according to all accounts
 working his men more in the Heisemar
 style of play-trick plays, quick and snap
 py-and it can hardly be denied thai | Heiseman was not only the best coacf
 the Auburnites ever had but the best tht
 South has ever known. His wonderful de
 velopment of the Clemson team last yea
 proved that.
 A faint line can be drawn on Auburn
 1908 team next Saturday, for on that da!
 a local team will leave Montgomery an'
 give the Auburn team a bruising gam | on the campus The local boys who hav
 promised to go are: Charles Dexter, cen
 ter; Will Patterson, right tackle; Georg | Tyson. full back; Fordie Finch, hal
 hack: Will Conniff, lead; Howard Smith
 right half: Jim Brown, left tackle. Burks
 guard: Will Graves, guard; Whit Brame
 right end; Noble Billings, left half; Till
 man Taylor, Emmet Sebels, Robert Ar l rngton.
 Last fall the Auburn-Sewanee gam was played in Birmingham. Sewane | winning but the close score of Sewanee } II: Auburn, 10, when they played her | in 1900 made it virtually a drawn battle
 Hereafter the Auburn-Sewanee same will
 probably be an annual affair in Mont ! gomery the interest of course being tha much heightened.
 A letter from Sewanee to The Adver , tiser says:
 During the past week the footbal : coach arrived and regular practice ha l now begun. The squad now at worl , are doing fine. and the prospects are flat
 tering Some of the men who have re , ported are: for backs, Colmore, Kirb Smith Sawrie Shaffer, Poyner, Scar e borough, Brown. Butler, Price an l | Loomis For quarter, Sneed, Holmnes l Jones Palmer and Mendonhall Flo = ends Wetlin, Wireless, Wood, Dunca e and Walker. For tackles, Harper an = Brown; for guards. Phillips and Gilman n for center. Watkins. More men ar needed. The prospects for the team ar
 good with the possible exception of back: /. The management requests all availabl U | material to come out and chance 1t. "In just about a month we meet ou f old time enemy. Auburn, from whom W s games We play this team in Moni V gomery on Saturday, October 31st The :. too. we have a game with Mooner Scho' r. in about two weeks time. We mus II work, and that hard