The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
FOOTBALL SEASON
NEARING ITS CLOSE
Something of DixIe's Thanks
giving Games
ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE
Vanderbilt In Glass by ltself-How
Others Line Up--Comnodores
Meet Sewanee-Auburn-
Georgia.

The day on which Teddie Roosevelt
urges all Americans to be thankful will
be one of the most interesting of all the
year to those in whom there is sporting
~lood. This is true through the United
States, and especially as affecting Blr-
mingham The day is generally consid
cred the logical end of the football sea-
son, the day on which the buffetted pig
skin is hidden away for a long winters
snooze when all deplsts begin figuring
on results, comparisons being their end.
In Birmingham, there will be a foot
ball game in the afternoon between the
University Of Alabama and the University
of Tennessee. In the evening, there will
occur one of the greatest wrestling
matches of the year. when the skill of
Farmer Burns will be taxed to it's ut
most by Charles Stone, the coming
champion" On the morning of that day,
there will be a great local sporting event
in amateur circles, when the athletes of
the Young Mems Christian association
hold their annual five-mlle footrace. To
the sporting world. therefore. the day
will be great one. indeed.
Great Gridron Games.
There will be three great gridiron games
in Dixie. In Birmingham, Tennessee
clashes with Alabama; in Nashville, the
Commodores of Vanderbilt are besieged
in their stronghold by the Tigers of Sc
vance. In Athens the University of
Georgia is encountered by Auburn. In
addition to these three games. which for
years have been played on Thanksgiving.
there will be numerous other scattered
throughout the land of blossoms.
The most picturesque game of the sea-
son will be the annual clash of the army
and the navy, West Point and Annapolis
always play their annual game on
Thanksgiving, and the most distinguished
audiences Of. the year gather There is
always mass of golden braid and brass
buttons, the army and navy officers at
tending in full uniform. President Roose-
welt, his family, and cabinet, the sena-
tors and congressman, and other govern
ment attaches are always proud to OBJ
tain seats. The game draws one of the
largest attendances of the entire eastern
season.
The day is especially we'll filled in the
east, where the clashes are always heav-
lest, and the games most strenuously con-
tested.
The games in Dixie are set affairs, and
unfortunately are among those the vic
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Vanderbilt and Sewanee.
The most interesting game in Dixie will
be played in Nashville between Wander
bile and Sewanee. The rivalry of these
two southern institutions is not even Sec
ond to that of Alabama and Auburn. The
Tigers of Sewanee have little hope of de-
feating the great Commodores. The real
issue will be whether or not Sewanee
VIII be able to score. Last season, when
the Commodores outranked the Sewanee
aggregation as much as today, Scarbor-
ough. the quarterback, managed to kick
the swineskin across the center of the
goal, and preventing an ignominous de-
feat.
The Auburn Georgia game, which has
been a set affair for years and years, will
be of little interest this year, because Au-
burn will win with comparative ease.
| There was time when the rivalry be-
tween Auburn and Georgia was great but
| in recent years the Athens boys have ma
| terially deteriorated, and Auburn gener-
! ally snatehes the laurels with compare
| tive ease.
The game in Birmingham will be more
| interesting than that between Georgia
| and Auburn in Athens. Alabama is re-
ceiving the favors of the bettors but the
| indications are that the game will be
close Tennessee is generally represented
! ny d pluthN S6ItSdtiOii, % "oo SiiC"h
| last year when the heavy Alabamians
| were able to make but one touchdown.
Alabama will probably land the victory
| after a hard fight.
| The Southern Season.
| The season in Dixie this year has been
| a splendid one. This is true on account
of the unprecedented strength of Wander
| bit, as illustrated In its remarkable show
| ing against Michigan and the Carlisle
Indians. Indeed, by defeating the In
! dams, the Commodores are now in a
/ class with Princeton Yale Harvard
| Pennsylvania, West Point, the Navy and
/ Others. Vanderbilt ranks in that class
more properly than in the class with Sc
| vance. Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee
| Georgia and others.
The ranking of the several teams in the
| land of blossoms finds Vanderbilt in 3
class all alone. The ability OF the Com
modores Is not even approached by any
other aggregation below the line of Mason
and Dixon.
The second tier of teams would prop
| erly be composed of Sewanee, Alabama,
| Georgia Tech and Clemson. If Sewanee
! can score against Vanderbilt, the achieve
| ment of the Tigers will place them above
| Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Tennessee
! Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical
| College have proved themselves members
| of the third class. Howard college, Geor-
| gia, Tulane, with an innumerable horde
| of lesser lights are placed in the fourth