The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-07
MAY PLAY IF HERE
CLEMsoN-CUMYERLAND FOOT
 BALL GAME SCHEDULED.
A Nashville Newspaper Says the Contest is Booked for Montgom- cry on Next Thanksgiv-
 ing Day.

If story in yesterdays Nashville
 American Is correct, Montgomerians Will
 on Thanksgiving Day witness struggle for the football championship of the South.
 Heiseman's crack Clemson team, so the story runs, will play Cumberland at High | land Park on the day mentioned. and while nothing of it has been heard in Mont ntgomery, local lovers of football will be delighted if it Is true.
 Heiseman was coach of the famous Au- burn team of 1899 that played Sewanee the close game of Il to 10 on Thanksgiv- ing Day of that year. The attendance at that game was possibly the largest ever known at football game south of
 the Mason and Dixon line, and realizing the fact that Montgomery Is the best place in the South for football. 1t seems
 he has selected this city as the point in which to pull off the game for the cham pionship of the South. So while Auburn
 and Georgia will be playing their annual game. in Atlanta on Thanksgiving, and
 Sewanee and Vanderbilt in Nashville,
 Montgomerians will be watching the bit ter struggle for the championship of the South between Clemson and Cumberland. The American says:
 There will be no football game between the University of Nashville and Clemson on Thanksgiving Day, as scheduled. This announcement comes from Coach A. l..
 Phillips. of the Cumberland eleven, and Is as follows
 Clemson and Cumberland will meet
 
 University of Nashville having turned the game over to us. We expect a very hard game. and had I known such contest
 would be arranged for Thanksgiving our Southern trip would have been much | easier. But, as Cumberland does not can eel games. we are going to do the best we can. We play the University of Ala bama November H. Louisiana State Uni- versity, at Baton Rouge, November l6. and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
 at Starksvillc. Miss, November Is. ' The last two games expect tot play
 as easily possible, in order to save my team. The University of Alabama we wish to defeat by score equal If not above Sewanee.
 Tt has been known all along that Cum | berland was negotiating with Manager | Wyse of Clemson. for a game. It was | suggested that the two teams play d | post-season game following the Nashville | Clemson contest In this city and 1t was almost certain that the game would have | been played. Manager Butler of Nash | vile. was approached in regard to all lowing Cumberland to fill his engagement l with Clemson, and after considering the | matter gave his consent as he did not
 consider Nashville a formidable opponent | for Clemson. Furthermore. it Is known when Cumberland offered to play Glenn | son that the latter team asked to cancel | their Thanksgiving engagement with the | Maroons to meet the Lebanon boys. | who are considered worthy opponents of | any football eleven in the South, II not | the superior of any.
 Now that these teams are to meet 1t | will give the 'dopesters' better oppor-
 tunity to figure. for this one game Is lia- bie to settle the much-talked-of champion | ship. Cumberland defeated Vanderbilt 6 | to 0, Sewanee defeated Cumberland by the | same score Now if Vanderbilt wins from | Sewanee on Thanksgiving Day and Cur | berland from Clemson. that will give the | Lebanon boys the much coveted title of | champions of 1903. That Is, so far as fig ures are concerned. Cumberland has
 sprung into prominence this fall by their | superior playing. and their chances of | winning first laurels are as good as those | of any other eleven in the South. The cancelling of the game with Nash | ville leaves but one game of note to be played here on Thanksgiving. that being ] between Sewance and Vanderbilt on DUd- | lev iFeld
 MT. Philips. in speaking of the Van | derbi SeWanee game. snd: " Vanderbilt played Cumberland
 much harder game than Sewanee. and
 for this reason I regard Vanderbilt the
 stronger Nanderbilts players. indivdu- | ally with about one or two exceptions | are stronger than Sewanee's. With good l team work concerted action and fierce | agGrcssivcness. Vanderbilt can win from Sewanee Without these requirements she
 will lose
 "Following are th epositions. age
 weight and height of the Cumberland | University football team. which plays 1 (Ipn,SOO ,OI,