The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-18
EDITED BY HUGH w. ROBERTS
DONAHUE HAS GOOD SQUAD
 FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE TEAM

, class to itself Even so early in the sea son it may be declared, without fear of I controversy, that no other line of south 1 ern football teams, will be able to touch | Albums, and this despite the fact that Catan, all southern center, Harmon. all southern tackle. and Shirlang an end. are not to return. s44a There are two candidates for center.s either of whom will fill Caton's shoes l Boozer'' Pitts, a senior, who h'sA scrub- | bed since he was freshman, wint west | to work in the wheat fields last summer. l He came back to Auburn last week, yan- ned and hard, 197 pounds in weight. and I as game for q fight as ever Frank Notch was. e s6 i Pitts comes from Russell county, and 1 he Is one of the honormen of the college. 1 With il all, he plays good football. a Whether Pitts is as good as Burns, a. | Lauderdale county man for center, is a
 matter of conjecture. Caton, with his l all southern ability, made center over Burns last season only by the skin ff | his teeth. Burns is long and heavy, Ind as good a center as any other southern team can show, Burns has been developed I here at Auburn from an untrained fresh- man, until now he knows as much soot- I ball as Mike Donahue can teach, which is some.
 "Scuta Allen of Demopolis, all southern
 
 | 200 pounds to add to the weight of Au- burns line. Allen will play at guard or
 tackle. Rip Major, the man who punes 1 65 yards without effort, probably will play the other guard. Major has gained weight since last season, and it Is expected that
 he will show up formidably.
 l Captain Bonner probably will be played i at tackle. Bonner was elected captain because of his earnestness and sheer grit and Auburn men expect great things from l the long boy this season. Sheep Lainh may return for the other tackle position but no one has heard from Sheep in some time. He promised that he woal1 be back. He did not complete his course
 last year, and 1t Is expected that he will certainly be back to try for his diploma. Coach Donahue has not breathed word | yet as to where he will play Cogdell. Coz | dell is the 190 pound Bullock county boy who made all southern at tackle two years | ago and then, when they shifted him to end he carried off all southern honors at l that position. Cogdel is veteran. This l is his last season in football, and. every l one looks for him to make much of it. l Cruse. a Huntsville boy, and one of the | ardest workers who ever played for Au- l burn, is going to work them all to Keep on the regular team He, made varsity l last year by steady, earnest and occasion ally brilliant work, and he was one Of
  More than 50 men have reported for l practice every afternoon this week Many I of them are new men, and many of thu 1 new men look good However, 1t is 100 | early yet to pick the real football play CTS and Auburn are still looking to the | men who they know, are as good as any | in the south. Lister. an Albertville raan,
 and captain of the Seventh District Agri-
 cultural school football team two years l, ago. looks good, as does Graydon South l Carolina freshman. But no one is sure | yet as to the new men, and with 50 1nen | working hard, the next week or two 8 | sure to produce surprises.
 l Auburn has a hard season ahead. The l schedule entails two 10eo~ mile trips 10 1 Texas, one far game with the University
 of Texas. Auburn's onix vietprfoussfoe uf last season, and the other to play ahs l Texas A, and M. college, Besides these, games will be, played with clemsons aIer- ! cer, Georgia. and Georgia Tech.&