The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-05
''VANDY'S" SHOWING WAS REMARKABLE Boost for Football As Played
 in Dixie MICHIGAN WAS 0UTPLAYED Some Opinions Expressed-AIumniA Ai- ready Discussing Approaching
 Alabams-Auburn Game.
 To Be Great Fight.
MICHIGAN WAS OUTPLAYED


 this season, and the most important of all that were and are scheduled, was that between Vanderbilt and Michigan satur- day.
 The excellent showing of the southern CTS, and the expert criticism that Wander bilt fin team work surpassed the heavy western aggregation" has caused the gridiron students to become enthusiastic and taikatve
 When 1t is considered that Michigan is usually ranked with Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania, the achieve ment of the southern college team was markable. Vanderbilt is decidedly the greatest in the south, and as a repre- sentative of the article of football played in Dixie it's feat tends to indicate that southern teams are not more outclassed by the big eastern and western colleges than is the Southern by the National and American baseball leagues.
 From critical standpoint, too the game should have resulted in a tied score. Both aggregations scored a field goal, counting four points. Neither side, for the greater part of the game, could cross the goal. Throughout in spite of the handicap of weight, the Commodores outplayed the Michiganders, and covered more ground during the game than did the western boys. he victory went to the Michigan team when, on a fiuke, a spectacular run of seventy-five yards placed the pig skin between tine Vanderbilt goal posts for the single touchdown of the game
 Local Critics Talk.
 Robert Bailey, a resident of this city, who formerly managed the football team of the Vanderbilt university, and who since has shown peppery interest in gridiron fights, was in an exceptionally good humor after learning the result of the game. q believe really that the game should have resulted in drawn score" said he. "The showing made by the Com modores was superb. Last season, Van derbilt crossed the Mason-Dixon line for the first time that 1t had ever been crossed by a southern college team, and met Michigan The result of that first encounter was IS to o. with the south- erners on the end with the goose-egg. This game received the flattering criticism of experts from end of the country to the other, and it will be interesting to read tbe criticisms of the same men on the game Saturday. Next season. it may be that Vanderbilt will win. Who knows?"
 The reason for the close score is prou- ably found in two sentences. Michigan Is weaker this season than usual. Van derbilt Is represented by as good team as ever played in Dixie. Coach Counsel man of Howard college. formerly Mich igan half back, prophesied Saturday afternoon that the game would result in the fight being drawn. Michigan, while being heavier than Vanderbilt" said he, lis not as strong as in several seasons past Vanderbilt is thoroughly trained, and it's team work is unexcelled. There fore. it looks to me as if the fight will be a great one. l believe the score will be tied. It is hardly probable that either side will make touchdown"
 : Local ex-college men who have made a close study of football explain that Frank Yost, for years the greatest football coacn that America has produced, and whose efforts originally brought Michigan into prominence as football world power, is ''all in and this season finds him out of gear and not up to standard. Aabama-Auburn Game.
 While two weeks will elapse before the game of greatest interest to Alabamans is played, football enthusiasts from one end of the state to the other are already talking and discussing
 The team of the University of Alabama encounters the team of the Alabama Polytechnical institute Auburn, in Bir- mingham on the 17th of this month. The greatest rivalry exists between the two, and this rivalry is festered by every alumnus O. the institutions.
 Naturally, the great majority of col- ,ege men in Alabanaa claim either one or the other of the institutions as their Alma Mater. For years, the two have : been the greatest rivals on the southern gridron, and the annual football game in Birmingham, is tine great attraction of the entire season for Alabamians.
 From an early study of the two az gregations, 1t begins to look as If the fight this season will be one to the finish. Alabama won the game last year, and Auburn will make a strenuous effort to regain its laurels this season. Either ag- gregation would be satisfied, if after los- ing every other contest of the schedule it could land the scalp of it's bitterest enemy
 , The game will attract attention from every section of the state. The attend ance will be enormous, and the number of visiting college men to Birmingham will be large. Birmingham will be an improvised college town, filled with yell ing college lads, ard the waving of flags and pennants It will be day in which the citizens of the state will do honor to the two great institutions of learning in Alabama. ard to the Crimson-Whlte, and Orange and Blue, the rival colors. The game will be something of q social event. The Alabama alumni will entertain some two hundred guests at banquet at. the Hlllman. It is probable too, that : a german will he given in honor of the football players.
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