The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-11

It will be great battle and the foot aware of the fact. In past years. the Auburn Vandy game has always been wonder and with the rivalry even greater than before and both colleges represented by teams nearer the same strength, the enthusiahm has risen to much higher point This year Vandy has the best team that has represented the Gold and Black since 1912, when the Commodores held Harvard to close score but were forced to a draw with Auburn. The team at Auburn, although not of the calibre of the championship team of 1913, or the runner-up of last year, is a good one.
 The Commodores have already seen the ghost of the Auburn Tiger. The re- markable fighting spirit of Auburn, coupled with the powerful drive of the backfield that always accompanies the Donahue machine has outplayed the Vandy team every season for the past three years For, the past two years the Commodores have been woefully weak, although they have held Auburn to a close score.
 Strenuous practice is being held daily at the rival camps, and although two of Auburn's best men will not be in the lineup, their places will be suitably filled. The Auburn style of offense will be the same as in former years, when they battered through every defense in the south for numerous victories Steed will be used at quarter in place of Caugh- man, who has an injured leg. while Bdez Prendergast and Richenbacker will com pose the remainder of the back field. Hairston is the other injured regular
 Reports from the Vandy camp show that the Commodores were badly shaken up by their overwhelming defeat from Virginia. It is generally admitted that the experience gained by Coach. McGu- gin was invaluable to the Vafiy ma- chine. It showed the weak spots that Auburn would have had the opportunity to find. McGugin is now busily engaged correcting these faults. The barring of Fullback Wiggs from the game for the remainder of the season left the Commo- dore leader in sad predicament Hastily new material was reviewed and now the corps of Vandy coaches has decided to use Ray and Jarrett in the freshman's S place.
 Straight football will probably be used entirely by both teams, unless the plans of both coaches materially change before the battle. Vandy has always been good on the forward passing game and scored their only touchdown on Auburn in 1913 in that manner It may be that the Com modores will resort to this form of play for the coming battle. Auburn, it is as- sured, will use only straight football. That is, pound the line for enough touch downs to win. The Tigers have set of good backs this year and a~repetition of former plays is expected by Auburn fol- lowers.
 An enormous crowd is expected to see the game. Last year over 5000 people saw the game and this year the number is ex- pected to go even higher. The record attendance crowd for any football game in the south is 12,O00 That was in 1914 in Atlanta, when Georgia and Auburn fought to a draw. However, Birmingham is determined to better this mark
 Governor Henderson and his wife will attend at the invitation of the Auburn team. The entire staff of the governor and all of the high officials of the state will also come up on the same train. The governor will meet the Tigers upon their arrival and greet them with an address on the subject of Conquest" Over 300 Auburn students will attend the game in a body while the number coming from Vanderbilt will reach somewhere near the 600 mark Special trains from all parts of the south will convey the visitors to Birmingham to witness the south's greatest classic on the gridiron
 It,was stated last night by the sew eral members of the Auburn alumni that plans were now under way to ac- commodate 17,000 people.
 The automobile space may be abol- ished and in place circus seats arranged