The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
JOYOUS SURPRISE THRILLS
 ENTHUSIASTS OF STATE
Sewanee, While Proving a Disappoint- ment, Had Miserable Luck-PIayers Kiss Hardage, the Hero, Amid
 Great Demonstration-6-o.
By HUGH W. ROBERTS.

Joyous paeons from the plains of Ala bama rising and drowning the grief of Tennessee!
 For Auburn has conquered Sewanee, and for another season. at least, the cham pionship hope of the Royal Purple has withered and gone to. waste.
 Auburn's victory dazes with surprise a happy surprise to Alabamians, a source of unutterable disappointment to Tennes- see.
 The most enthusiastic wearer of the Orange and Blue dared not hope for bet ter than tie. The support of the Purple could imagine no dream more horrible than tie.
 But Auburn won. As a whole, Auburn outplayed Sewanee. In many respect Au- burn has better team than sewanee, and certainly one better generalled.
 Sewanee is not only disappointment to Tennessee. To every student of foot ball, surfeited with tales of Sewanee' S prowess, the rank work of the Tigers yesterday, their amateurish methods, and their poor generalship, shocked with dis appointment.
 The present Sewanee Aggregation is as much inferior to last seasons as Howard is to Auburn.
 And this is the year in which Sewanee planned to drive Vanderbilt from it's here tofore impregnable trenches
 Sewanee's Hard Luck.
 The score of the game was to o.
 While in the first half Sewanee had a trifie the better of the argument in the second half Auburn had all the honor. In this period the play was confined in the greater part to Sewanee territory. and Auburn held possession of the ball for two-thirds of the half.
 Had the game lasted another half Au- burn would have tripled the score, for every moment saw Sewanee more dis tressed for a lack of wind, and every mo- ment rendered the Tigefs less ferocious. At that let no one believe but that Se- vance drew the frowns of fortune
 Never had a team harder luck.
 In the first half as Evans was carrying the ball over Auburn's line, he juggled it, and the effort amounted to naught. And then Auburns score was the result of a run as fiukish as miraculous
 Hardage, in hundred years, could not repeat his brilliant effort of yesterday It was simply one of those marvellous bits of luck which make a drawn game impossible.
 It was one of those plays which caused a cessation of breathing.
 It was one of those marvellous escapes which dazes and leaves stunned!
 Quarterback Browns Mistake.
 Quarterback Brown. the general of the Sewanee outfit, was entirely too confident. He did not give to Auburn the credit due.
 In thousand ways he overlooked his hand. He was up against a hard proposition, and he imagined he had cornered the ace market.
 Therefore instead of reserving his strength, he planned to crush Auburn un- der an avalanche of touchdowns, field goals, safetiesi He planned to daze Au- burn with rare outbursts of speed, with terrific line plunges, with brilliantly exc cuted forward passes, and with an ir- resistible interference.
 He ran his team to death against a brick wall
 It required but one moment to learn that Auburn's line was impervous to Se- wanees attack. Sewanees hope, there fore, was around the ends.
 But a never ceasing repetition of end