The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
DOPE MAY BE TWISTED SOME Eyes on Auburn Tech
 Game, THERE WILL BE A GOOD TIME Elevens Appear Pretty Evenly
 Matched This Year. vsnderbilt-Tennessee Engagement AlsO Promises to Contribute to
 Football Year

southern football eyes will be Sat. nrday on the Auburn-Tech and the be good tests of strength and will add much to the pigskin dope of the sea
 That Auhurn-rech engagement ought to be a good drawing card in Atlanta Neither eleven has any right to bt ashamed of past scores. True, Tech has lost to Tennessee. but this was by the nominal score of to 5. This waf man aggregation. Tennessee is unu. suaily hefty this year and have been cleaning up with opponents all round
 Auburn lost too. to F. 8: oi bni on the real strength of the Louisiana bunch now realize that Auburn showed up remarkably we'll with collection of men of doubtful eligibility. They were the Orange and Blue squad, but they are going in with vim and pent- up determination against the Tech eleven. They may lose the services of outside of this the team will probably remain intact.
 The average weight of the Auburn outfit will be about i65 pounds. Tech may not outweigh them. Tn 6 good many ways the teams are an offset. But the textile camp is most enthused over the grand showing against Ten nessee last Saturday. That awful clash cost Tech a man. for Hightower re- ceived broken arm that disabled hin, for the season. His Injury will offset the disability of Penton, of Auburn;
 The outcome of the Vanderbilt Ten nessee game Saturday will likewise De watched with interest What If Tennessee should administer a drub- have happened. Tennessee has yet to see her first defeat this year. She has run up an aggregate score of "A points to her opponents 10. Of course naAa art.t t. &,.. gan and. so far as South ern records are concerned. goes in buoye5 to the same pitch as Tennessee. The score should be close In all events
 But 6 defeat of McGugin's machine by Tennessee would twist the cham pionship dope beyond recognition. Es- pecially would 1t be so if Tech should wallop Auburn. Sewanee should trounce Vanderbilt Thanksgiving and then in the meantime Tennessee should have gotten q reverse In some quarter or
 More of the L. S. U.
 L. S. U. Is not considered in the rum ming. That Is. for the present No one Is doubtlng their tremendous strength and their great record for the season. It is their methods that have come un- der cloud. Evidence accumuIates all most daily that men on the team have received compensation for play, or are receivlng 1t. The testimony of Coach Clarke. of Rose Polytechnic, is already familiar to the reading pubiic-how he said he was offered money at the be- ginning of the season to play with the Louisiana bunch. and how he recog- ntzed the pictures of the L. s. U. eleven the faces of men against whom he had played when he was an alI- Western half.
 Only Friday there was in Montgom- cry an ex-eoach of fame in the south, a man of good reputation, who. with out letting his name run into print, de- clares of personal knowledge that Louisiana Is composed of men who are under contract to play. He can point to men who would testify that of eight faces to be seen in the l.. s. U. aggre- gation six can be identified as hayinp played on Pennsylvania soil recently and two played in the West. It is not improbable that something more will be heard of this in. an official way. IL, 5. U. IS member of the s. I. A. A. and the officers of that orRanization cannot overlook such grave charges as these. N'
 Saturday, though. offers a good op- portunity for football students to starr guessing contest.