The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-22

and when a runner with crimson sweater on was tackled the general rule was that he stopped in his tracks. 5s Purple Had The Weight.
 The weight was with the wearers of the purple, the football standing was with them and the fighting spirit that has always characterized Sewanee's play was back of every Tennesseean.
 Sewanee had the better eleven. and there was no Mackltn to look like light house in a fog in the beaten ruclx and snatch victory from defeat in the sensational feats of individual prowess.
 Likewise. the Burkes finally failed to have pocket edition herein and fray to flash across the gloomy horizon of adverse fate like shock headed comet and achieve the unhoped for in the last second or so of the days hazard. Neither of these two stars, or others that have gone before, could have saved the day against the Tiger at tack 44 .N
 Nor was there any chance to seize advantage from Sewaneess~ blundering.- Here was the football machine in it's highest efficiency remorseless, inevita- ble, charged with extra steam when extra effort was needed, yet mobile as an auto in it's adjustment to the shift ing demands of the instant.
 Alabama tried to delude this think ing mechanism, but whenever her at-
 
 to meet 1t, headlong projectiles with hooks of steel which bored through in- terference as through paper and divined painfully drilled stratagems as by sixth foot ball sense.
 a4 Great Throng Present.
 Tuscaloosa has seldom entertained such a throng at an athletic event as that which assembled this afternoon. The historic campus grounds were con verted for the time into scene re- n1inding one of the ancient days of the Greek sports. Sfnewy athletes strolled beneath the ancestral walks for some time before the assembling or thes crowd, listening to the final words Of encourage cement
 was erected on which gathered the flower of Alabama society. The loved rad and white predominated and at each successive onslaught of the vicious Tigers a sough of anxiety and almost heart-breaking regret would s"eep along the banks of female loveliness.
 The organized band of rooters had u+tia +o do. Scarce as the mama was thefh opportunity for from the first down to the last the sum total Of Ala ba,na's success was fiuke position to where the brave little Hannon. Mont zomery boy, could kick very dimculI goal and on one other occasion when he threatened the entire Sewanee team for a gain of twenty yards.
 The qualities that showed why se- vance won were shown in the making of the first touchdown. In the first place. Sewanees was trained to the mo- ment and on edge after Saturdays honS ing by the Auburn eleven. Nor was Alahama more than a shade behind. These twenty-two frames seemed in- vulnerable to shocks, any one or which would have put an average citizen In a hospital with several consulting sur geons debating how many operations were needed to disentangie his anat- omy into a semblance of the original pattErn.
 The writer who attempts to describe the shifting play will not have faith put into his narrative by those who witnessed the spectacle one sided as IL was. There were moments when en- thusiasm ran high and the play was osderce that the fighting spirit of the prehistoric ages swept through more than one bosom in the assembled throng.
 Sewanee came down from Birming- ham with Auburn's scalp dangling at her belt. The squad is generally ac- cepted as the strongest that has come from the mountain lair of the Tigers In years. From Quarterback Barrett to Center Evans there is scarcely differ ence of ten pounds and the general average of the team is ITO pounds.
 Two Squads Compared. .7
 When the purple clad warriors ap- peared on the gridiron somewhat In ad- vance of the Alabamians they were greeted with salvo of cheering. There were many in the crowd who were with the visitors and who rooted for them consistently. They were perfect foot ball typos, the rugged Stone. the 1.-the Shipp, the athletic-looking Markley. Eisle and Lanier, to say nothing of the bull logged appearance of Barrett, Evans and Cheape.
 Alabama appeared, on the field few moments after the Tigers and was giv- en a rousing reception. After few minutes Sewanee won the toss and re- ceiyed the kick. Burke sent the sphere spinning fofty-five yards into the arms of the Tiger fullback, Lanier, who re- turned 1t twenty yards before being downed, From them on 1t was an easy march down the field for two touch downs in the first i've minutes of play.
 The play which netted the sum total of the ffty-four points scored by Se- vance would be an untnteresting mar rative. There was not time when, the Tigers could not make first down and