The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13
GREAT RIVALS BATTLE HERE Local Eyes Turn To- wards Thanksgiving. AUBURN TACKLES OLD GEORGIA Montgomery Expected to Show Limit of Enthusiasm. Both Elevens Have Hsd . Season of Triumph and The Years Game
 is Thirteenth of Their
 History.
 

Montgomery's notable desrth of Col- legiate football contests in years past is all the more marked by the interest which Is universally becoming engen- ,iered by antictpation of the Thanks giving game. to the played in the Capi- tai City between Auburn and the Uni versity of Georgia.
 There Is no doubt but that the con test will prove. for Montgomerians, the greatest athletic feature since the me. morable ClemsoH-Cumberland game of 1904 which was played at Athletic PaFk Already arrangements for every ac- comodation, both to the players and the witnesses, are on foot.
 Manager Tom Bragg of the Au0urn eleven was in Montgomery Tnursday, effecting arrangements for advertising and other business details connected with the game. Tho management 1L both teams Is pleased with the prospect Of Montgomery as the scene ok tns contest. and Montgomerians are cor respondingly satisfied that the athletic atmosphere of the Capital City, IS 70 receive so large and pleasing an m lection of tue greatest college game. game. There remains only an enthuslastic attendance. which Is assuredly forth . coming. 1t is expected. to endorse tue football spirit of Montgomery, ana 10 pave the way for future sanSSIs SIb nSrs. snns. giving Day Is one of especial note, in that 1t is decisive of the outcome or the Auburn-Georgia rivalry. which IS per- haps the keenest and most sportsme T. like exhibited in the Southern foot
 For twelve years, the two teams have played. Upon Thanksgiving Day they met in what was. in each recurring year. the telling games of the season. Roth have held In reserve, through twelve seasons. their most cunning manuvers and their greatest strength, for the Thanksgiving contest.
 Victory has rested on both equally. Six victories for Georgia are rectprocat- ed by an even half dozen for Auburn One year the pendulum swings to the one. the next to the other.
 And now. upon the gridiron at Van- diver Park. on November 26. will be played the thirteenth game. The number holds out limitless scope to the imagination, and also the pros way or the other, the even honors. of the South's two keenest rivals.
 The game will be warmly contested without doubt. Georgia. fighting in of the season. invariably brings sur- praises Last year defeat was aumin- istere5 Auburn, when the Alabamians were doped out as sure and strong winners. This year when 1t Is conceded to Georgia's bunch the superiority of other Cracker elevens she appears in- teresting. Having played no games of note as yet. by which Judgment upon the team can be passed. Georgia looms as a formidable unknown. Rumors of untold strength emanate from the Georgia College town, The prestige of Georgia's last years team stands out boldly as endorsement of its power of 1908 and there is promised a contest for nksglving thRt will be delect- able to the most avid seelger of the ex- citing and surprising In football.
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