The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-11
REPRESENTATIVE
CONTEST IN MONTGOMERY
 AwAITED WITH INTEREST.
Orange and Blue and Purple Will Meet Here October 31st-Both Teams Are in Hard
 Practice.

The zenith of football enthusiasm in the South will be reached when the Orange and Blue of Auburn and the Purple of Sewanee meet at Highland Park on Saturday, October 31st.
 This game will be the sixth contest be- one and tieing one and, Sewanee win- ming three. both teams scoring in every game except two, the one in 1897 when neither team scored and the one last year when Sewanee won at Birmingham ( to 0. -- '
 The rivalry between the teams is intense and the bare mention of an Auburn Sewanee games assures a contest of the most exciting character. In fact to the south this game is what a Princeton- this year an added importance attaches to 1t from the fact that the contest is for the championship of the South. !
 The first game played was in. 1898 in Atlanta, Sewanee winning by the .uncom- fortable close score of IS to IA. s
 General Leonard Wood, who made his reputation as Colonel of Roosevelt's s Rough Riders, afterwards being Cover nor General of the Queen of the Antilles, was the referee of the 1893 game, and the Auburn people tell some pretty ugly sto- ries in regard to his decisions At that time he was stationed at Fort McPaier- son as Post Surgeon.
 In those days a touchdown counted four points instead of five as. is the case now. and a goal counted two points instead of one as under the present rules. The game had been fierce one, each team having scored three touchdowns and Auburn hav- ing kicked a goal in addition, making the score stand. Auburn, 14; Sewanee, F.
 At this 5uneture the crowd began to encroach on the field, an occurrence that has marred so many of our football games in the South. In some way Soper, who was playing left end for sewanee, got hold l..f kr .l and the now frantic Auburn eleven. The crowd acted as interference extraordi- nary, and before any of the Auburn men could get to him Soper had rushed the pigskin across Auburn's line for the fourth touchdown. making the score, sewanee. Is; Auburn, II, the game ending this way
 There were three Montgomery boys in the game and these recollections will take them back to happy reveries of those old Auburn's line-up as near as I can re- member was as follows: Riggs, left end; Harry Smith, of this city. now supervisor of the M. and E, division of the Central employ of that corporation. right end; Jule Dunham, son of former General Su- perintendent Durham of the Plant Sys- tenn and himself a few years ago Gem manager of the Mutual Light and Power Company, quarterback; Glenn, left guard; Foy. right tackle; Dorsey. right half-back and Perkins. left llalf-back.
 Sewane's lineup was: Soper, the man who won the game, left end; Hon. W. Temple Seibeis of this city, one of the former Montgomery County members of the Alabama Legislature, right end; Dow dell, center; Grant Shepard, right guard Con Shepard, his brother, left guard Ronny Kirby Smith, son of the famous Confederate General. right tackle: Alec Shepard, another of the Shepard brothers, ftin-back; Nelson. a Michigan man right half>back: Blacklock, quarter back and Brown left half-back.
 teams for three years and in 1896 they got together again in Montgomery. Auburn was getting together then the material of the grand team that has since made them famous and easily among the fore most of Southern colleges. The final score of that game was Auburn, 9; Se- vance, 5. and the enthusiastic joy in Ala bama fairly effervesced.
 The next year. in 1897, Auburn met Se- vance on the campus of the latter and on the rugged heights of the Cumber. land Mountains probably the fiercest foot ball game ever fought in the South took place. The game broke up in a row, both teams leaving the field with the score ( to- 0.
 Two years afterward. in 1899, the two teams again met in Montgomery before the largest crowd that ever attended A football game south of Mason and Dixon's l line. Sewanee had played games that year all the way from the Cumberland l Mountains to Dallas. Texas, and had not | been scored against.
 Auburn not only scored against Sewanee
 but came within scratch of winning the