The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-11-25
GREAT CELEBRATION
OVER PRESENTATION
OF B. & A. TROPHY
CAPTAIN A. {. WELLS MAKES a
SPLENDID TALK ON
OCCASION.
HlRAlB GIVtA FIfIitN RAILS
Coach Bruce Meoehee Makes Feeling
Talk to the Team and 20 the Stu
dent BodY-Mueh Credit Due the
Rioters.

Rioters.
The presentation exercises OF the
Branham & Hughes trophy to c. II. A.
Saturday night were attended with
much merry making and ceremony.
Promptly at seven o'clock Coach
McGehee called the mass meeting to
order and after stating the purpose OF
the meeting; that it was for the
bringing to an appropriate close the
most successful football career of the
school and for the presentation of the
football won from Branham & Hughes
on the day of November 5th, when for
the first time that school had gone
down in defeat before the McGehee
machine. Col. ]. c. Hardy was inyit-
ed to the stand and made short adj
dress to the tea mand the student
body. Col. Hardy stated that it had
given the faculty great pride to be able
to refer to the machine this year and
to the rooters as the best the school
had ever had and one of the best in
the south. That with the same school
spirit that had been shown this year
there could be football team at c.
M. A. every year This talk was fol-
lowed by talks by some from town
and then followed the presentation OF
the trophy by Capt. A. e. Wells in
we'll chosen address.
Capt. Wells took the stand and plac-
&c the trophy which was encased in
a large frame covered with glass on
the capstand beside him. He told the
boys what he had promised to do with
the ball. Capt. Wells said that he had
made promises On his way to Spring
Hill, and that when he made them
he believed he would carry them out
for he felt that victory would crown
the efforts of the cadets on that day.
He told several anecdotes bearing on
the subject and finally got down to
the unwilling of the ball, and there
was one of the most eager crowds /
that was ever witnessed in the large
study hall The cadets hadn't seen
the ball since it had been brought
from the field on the day of the victo-
". When the veil was taken from
1yer it's face it revealed the ball en-
,ased in a large, handsome flame
With a glass over it and on the ball
vas painted &c. M. A. IL, B. & FL. z,
.91O." When the cadets saw it John
Duncan, the ever alert leader of the
'coters and their yells mounted the
ostrum and there was sent UP such
mother volley of yells that for fifteen
minutes there was bedlam. EeVery
member of the tea mwas given fif-
cen rahs, Coach McGehee, Coach
'otts, Capt. Bowe, Coils. Hardy and
Idgerton and every member of the
The Daily Herald was given
fteen rahs and number of the mer-
hants in town.
At the conclusion of the yells Capt.
,harles Phillips on behalf Of the team
ccepted the trophy and asked that it
e given a place in the al chives of the
chools history The exercises we're
hen brought to close by few brief
alks by Capt. Bowe to the members
{ the scrubs followed by a feeling
nd brotherly talk by Coach McGehee.
,uring the course OF Capt. McGehee's
emarks there seemed sadness to
cine over every member of the team,
s Capt. McGehee said That it was one
f his saddest days as he realized that
would be the last time all those men
rould play on Academy Field togeth-
/ and he realize dthat it was the last
me that he would have the pleasure
+ coaching them.