The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Locals Played Off Their Feet At Every Stage
 of the Game
DAZZLING. FORWARD PASSES
 RA1TLED THE BAPT|STS
Connolly Makes Sensational Run of 103 Yards to Touchdown and Bisseil Stars as Punter-Weather
 Conditions Miserable
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS

Clemson tossed crimp into the cham pionship aspirations of Howard college yesterday afternoon, and in addition to displaying a fine knowledge of the game, demonstrated beyond question that in the mud South Carolinians are supreme. The score was 24 to 0, and Howard, it must be confessed, was played entirely off it's feet.
 The field at the Fair grounds was two inches in mud, and as further handicap a fine drizzling rain fell throughout the scrimmage Clemson, in spite of the mis- erable conditions, played with a dash and a vim which carried all before it. How ard, one the other hand, was unable to cope with the heavy field, was slow on it's feet, got off its plays too late, and appeared on various occasions, as if suf- fering in a sad state of rattles. It is the concensus of opinion, however, that had the field been fast the Baptists would have appeared to much better advantage. As it was yesterday Clemson got the bulge and never flagged in pressing its upper hand
 ConneIIy's 1O3-yard Run
 Though Clemson did play too high in the line-whch would have given fierce ly charging team a great advantage-it showed the result of careful training and fine knowledge of the game as it is played under the new and reform code A more dazzlinfi repertoire of forward passes than that of the visitors yester- day was never presented to Birmingham audience, and so effective were these ma neuvers operated, that the Baptists, on many occasions, did not realize what was occurring. Howard, on the other hand, worked few forward passes successfully, did not get down the field on punts, ana was guilty of innumerable fumbles. The most spectacular play of the aft ernoon was the 103-yard run of Quarter back Conneley in the fourth quarter. Howard at the time was on Clemsons seven-yard line. A forward pass was at tempted, and Conneley got the ball. He skirted the uniformed Howard line and dashed without hindrance to the Baptists' goal But one man pursued, Millican, and he was distanced The bunting of Bissell was another feature, especially his goal shooting after touchdowns He had four chances, one of them from an exceedingly difficult angle, and accepted each in mas terly manner. On bunting behind the line he was good, too, although on couple of occasions Howard blocked his kicks. Noone did the better all-round work for Howard, although Boykin, on the end, discharged his duties most acceptably. Noone's bunting, on rare occasions, was superb, and as a whole was very good. Clemson had an edge as concerns weights and had the advantage too, of greater speed.
 Towards Chances to Score | Howard was stronger on the defense than the offense, although the right side | Altbouph the ground was so heavy that students of the game predicted in the beginning that no scoring would occur unless by nuke on two occasions Clemson plowed over Taylor and Dunsmore to touch downs from a considerable distance back of goal
 | Howard showed nothing on the offen- sive. although, as stated. the condition of the field and weather was responsible. | Howard was unable to gain to advant- age through the line of the Clemson
 Tigers, got off its end runs too slowly to produce much gain, and failed, on a whole on it's forward pass attempts | In the final quarter of the game How | ard had three fine opportunities to score.
 In the beginning Howard recovered a | tumble on Clemson's 10-yard line, but | lost the ball on downs Again, Howard | recovered a forward pass in a scrim-
 mage on Clemsons 11-yard line, and | again lost the swineskin on downs. Then
 when Clemson attempted to kick the
 ball out of danger the kick was blocked, | and the oval recovered by Howard on l Clemson's six-yard line. The first down netted Howard one yard. The second | resulted in a loss of two yards. On the
 third down Connelley recovered the ball when Howard attempted a forward pass and ran 103 yards for touchdown
 Touchdowns in Second Quarter In the beginning 1t appeared that there
 would be no scoring. True. Clemson