The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
AUBURN PLAYERS SORE
THINK INJUSTICE WAS DONE BY BIRMINGHAM PRESS.
Members of Polytechnic Team Say They Played Clean, Manly Foot ball In Contest with David-
 son, s. c. College.

The members of the~Auburn football
 team who were fin Montgomery yester- day morning and the night before, ex- pressed in strong terms their feeling about what they regarded as gross in-
 justice done them by the afternoon press of Birmingham in reporting the game between the Orange and Blue eleven and the Davidson College team last Saturday.
 The boys have not been in the least | discouraged by the showing of their team in Birmingham last Saturday. or | if they do they do not show 1t. but | theyN do not relish being charged with ! playing dirty football when. as they l firmly assert, they did not indulge in 1t. The few Montgomery spectators at the game do not support the charges but on the contrary say there were no grounds for alleging any rough work that may not reasonably be expected fin the game.
 Coach Donahue while in Montgomery yesterday said he was surprised that anybody could see any dirty work on the part of his men. He said what he
 has said before. that they played good
 football and that if there was any unu-
 suaiiy rough playing the Davidson
 bunch brought 1t on themselves by re-
 peated holding in the line and at the
 ends.
 It Is said that q good many of the
 faculty at Auburn were inclined to rep-
 rimand the Orange and Blue players on
 the strength of the Birmingham papers
 telling of ugly business during play.
 But on being correctly informed, 1t is
 said, there was nothing done or pro-
 posed to punish the boys in anyway. There are few colleges or none which
 fNxe fn teach NfAanAE 0fhIaff0a khon Ati-
 burn, according to the alumnt and 1t was a sore disappointment to the grid iron representatives of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute to be nisrepre- sented. as they declare. by two of the Birmingham papers.
 The game with the Mississippi A. < M. College in Columbus, Miss, today will be the last for Auburn before the Tigers clash with the Vanderbilt heavyweights. As said before. the Alabamians do not appear to be dis- couraged by the result of the Davidson game, attributing 1t wholly to luck. Two or three times Auburn in that of the Davidson goal but costly fum- bles wiped out the fruits of the pro- sessions which they made with the ball up to within 0 few yards of the SCOT ing point. Coach Donahue makes the charge that these were not fumbles at cTltlcAI stages put the Dall was knOCk- ed out of the hands of the Auburn men. being coached to do so from the side lines.
 However this may be. the Auburn doughties are going to put up the game of their lives against the Commodores and profess not to be daunted by the good defensive showing made by the rennesseeans In the game with Michi- | gan. A great part of the coaching of last week was devoted to defensive of the Auburn eleven. They the furious offensive play of he Vanderbilts and are rounding to in good shape.
 There Is some Encouragement in the line by the crippled condition of Tackle Streit of the Auburn bunch. He nas strained tendons in his leg which late back over week, but he said he was saving all the strength he could for the battle in This will take place Sat- lrday, November 5, On account of the score of PC to o rolled up against Ala Dama by Clemson Auburn has just now begun to look up and take notice of Ihe textile army in. South Carolina. The game with Clemson follows Au-