The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
LET L. 5. U.
 NOW ANSWER Grave Charges Raised
 Against Her. MONETARY OFFER WAS MADE Coach Clarke of Rose Polytechnic
 is the Accuser. Declares that at Beginning of This Season He Had Of1er of Money
 to Play With L. s. U.-
 Other Evidence.

Let not Auburn and her friends grieye more. The less to Louislatna against her. The Orange and Blue should be rather lauded for the mag nificent showing that her eleven put up against a college that now rests Until the L; s. T., clears her name. emRy ths oarses noS @ brought against her, those laurels are worse than none; they are tainted with deeeit' for is & 1t n9t dins fsct tnat ovac vne Dixie under the label of IS. I. A. Az? The first tangible evidence that l.. 5. U. is conducting her athletics on a Nashville. From the pen of Grantland Rice, the testimony comes. testimony on its face damaging. and it puts the They must answer. Rice, the we'll known sporting writer of The Nashville | Tennessean. carries in his column of prominent in the Western football world to the effect that he was of fered compensation to matriculate at F. s. U; and play oso r9otfal; NoT toaS Was l remark about the pre-eminent curricu- l lum at that college to offer as a diVer- | sion to the game.
 than Coach Clarke of the Rose Poly | technic. perhaps better known as all- Western half in 1907 season Hear say in the following clipping from Tho | rennessean:
 Grantland Rice Quoted.
 Early in the season when Choach Nashville. he dropped into The Tennes- sean office after the game. Noting a football letter on the desk doping out s made S' fSIy 1saR this ss sif'on guess they ought to be good I know of at least three men on last years L. S.. U. team who. played under as- ern stars. At the beginning of this season I received letter from some one closely connected with the team. all expenses if would enter there and but 1t isn't any great trouble to build tfons. Clarke was all Western half. back and one of the best football play CTS Indiana ever turned out. In addi- ton to this statement, he also charged that L. s. us captain last season was playing there under an assumed name and was weil-known in Western foot der that Auburn was defeated, nor should this game be counted against her in any way There can hardly be for Clarke that night got out a Spald- ings guide, showed the photo of Lou isiana States 1907 captain, called his played. I should know what am talking about hc repeated. as I have played both with and against him.
 an eligible eleven, but Judging from the above, 1t hardly seems likely. As It was the opinion of the writer that
 aakS as sosSs sS .oH gas out wSs of S made ot a hc case at the time. h justice to Auburn, the a5oye is giysn. now just as 1t was injustice done, we wiil be glad to hear L. s. us side of It."
 Doubt All Season.
 Such suspicion as this has all season rested over the L.. 5. U. aggregation. that Auburn won by defeating Sewanee the Saturday previous, few of her ad- herents in Montgomery or elsewhere L. S. U. All who had seen the eleven in action or had even read of her feats all season, know that the Orange and Blue were up against an overpowering comm modation bets, were made at even money on Auburn in Montgomery. The odds, odds were against Auburn and wagers
 It was all because there was a be- snI nei Una that rb. +. s: U: was not on the
 mere rumer " There wSasd %as no not sviSeSns to lay hands on, and so the playing of extraordinary comment.
 It is different now. The evidence seems, to be at hand. It points a querulous finger at L. S. U. authori- ties and they must answer. As Grant land Rice says, they might have changed their plans this year and come clean. This would hardly prove likely, however, as the eleven Is even more effective than that which repre- sented L. S. U. last year Indeed. one expert in Montgomery who saw hA 0tr1 ff-.. l. year declares that he recognizeS seyC eral of the faces at Auburn Saturday. who were stars in the game at Mobile last year. Would they, in weedinS out the ineligibIes for this year have discarded the best? Hardly
 But let the doubt. if there is any, be