The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-27
AUBURN IS WORKING
FOOTBALL TEAM PREPARING TO
 MEET sEwANEE.
Coach Bases is Giving Ills Men Fine Training Contests Arranged tf Which. Will oe Watched
 With Interest.

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 Hard, steady and bruising Is the work
 that Coach Bates Is giving the Auburn | squad this week The least sign of loaf
 ing. fumblng or shirking is sufficient provocatfon to put a man of the varsity team. .i-8 Auburn Is making preparations for the l hardest game of It's football season-the Sewanee game in Montgomery Saturday. and the team that they will present
 the one that played Alabama Friday. Yesterday morning several old Auburn boys. Montgomerians who were members of former Auburn teams. left for that place and will spend the week helping perfect shape as possible.
 As The Advertiser has stated Auburn had i've of It's best r1en out of the game .ast Friday, supposedly holding them for big surprise party will be sprung on the Sewanee people Saturday.
 The Tremendous score piled up by lSewanee against the University of Ten feet of running Sewanee stock in Mont
 gomery~ pretty high; and on paper Sewa-
 nee certainly has the best of 1t Wander
 biit beat the University of Tennessee 70 | 52 to O. Vanderbilt beat the University of Alabama 30 to 0 and Alabama beat Au-
 burn here last Friday IS to 6.
 By no means. however. does this make
 the conclusion foregone that sewanee will
 make the compar rative score against Au-
 burn that Vanderbilt did against Ala
 Sanpa and that Alabama did against Au- burn @ ~-" < ',s' s 7s19 s.,''i. Another sridiron event that the Auburn | boys will watch with great interest win | be the Georgia Vanderbilt game in At lanta Saturday. Auburn playing Georgia
 it's annual Thanksgiving Day game and Sewanee playing Vanderbilt its annual Thanksgiving Day game.
 The University of Nashville will play
 Tennessee Saturday in Nashville and 1t
 will be interesting to see whether Ten nessee makes any better showing than l they did in the Vanderbilt and Sewanee games.
 These three games-Auburn-Sew -Sewanee in Montgomery. Georgia Vanderbilt In At lanta and Nashville e-Tennessee in Nash vile will be the principal southern games of the week. but a game that Will be de- cidedly interesting will be the Alabama
 Sewanee game in Tuscaloosa next Mon day Alter the showing that Auburn | made with Alabama last Friday ana that Auburn will make with Sewanee S9tur- day 1t will be interesting to watch the showing that TuscaIoosa will make against Sewanee next Monday. fy., ,~r : Eastern Football. FA'F'' 's A New York special says of Eastern | football affairs: -s...
 "Lovers of football have had their first l big surprise and incidentally had the re- aiization thrust home upon them that
 careful study of form frequently avails | nothing. in considering the chance Of a | big eleven. The Columbia Pennsylvania | game is a monumental instance of this. "The question now agitating the grid, | iron followers Is what Morley's pupils will l do with Yale, up to the present time ad- game, The weeks work is unlikely to | furnish a reliable clue to the contestant, and the followers of Columbia will shave togo at the New Haven proposition in ' untS4 lad IIn a. kers not confident but extremely hopeful l Princeton furnished something of a | surprise and proved that rapid strides I had been made in just two days of pras- I gain ground, Dartmouth, much stronger | team. could do little or nothing. The | Tiger team; seemed suddenly and unac- countably shaken together, the result be- | ing a decisive drubbing for the visitors. ."Yale's disposal of West Point was . | rather workmanlike piece of football, a
 tendency. to tumble being the glaring ''0n the whole, the New Haven team l seems not to have gone back any. and
 despite the hard luck stories ought to inn- | prove steadily during the week.
 "Poor Pennsyfvania, thought to have a | championship eleven, and In reality hav- | ing very strong team, though not well 1 handled, again finds itself unable to reach the Harvard game with a clean slate. | What Pennsylvania's chances are against l Harvard must remain puzzle for some | time yet. E. t.'t | Tt is extremely difficult to get any sort | of line onHarvard's real strength, but the | team has undoubtedly improved since the | West Point game. It Is still cratic, how | ever. and will take lot of haTnmering
 to get in shape for the big games now l close at hand. The Crimson line seems to | be at the bottom of the trouble at pres
 ent. for the backs have kept up good | gait right along. l "Cornelrs first real test comes this | week. and Princeton's too. Up to date l the Tigers have made much the better | showing and look to be a. great deal
 stronger 1t must be remembered, though. 1 that the Ithacans always play their best | game against the Tigers. Princeton un- l doubtedly will improve during the week.
 the brace against Dartmouth looking like
 something more than transitory inn provement. 'v'-
 "of all the big teams, Cornell and
 Princeton have yet to be scored on and | 1t is not rash statement to say that | there is some probability of both losing | this proud distinction next Saturday, "Of the weeks work. Yale would seem
 to have kept her position at the head Of l the procession with Columbia and Prince | ton close up. To rate the others at pres | ent with any chance of being right. seems l