The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
LIVELY ENCOUNTERS
 BETWEEN THE RIVALS
Most Amusing Struggle of the Day Was That When Commodore Stu dents Attempted to Take by
 Force Famous Auburn Goat

At 'AoS liA HlOlltuS.
 The crowds included, besides the 900 or more students from Auburn, | the hundreds from Nashville, a party of several hundred from Montgomery 50 from Mobile, 50 from Anniston,
 numbers from Decatur and other cities
 of north Alabama; in fact, every town
 in this part of the state was repre-
 sented.
 The visitors were nearly all col
 lego men or alumni of either Wander
 bilt or Auburn and it was a typical college crowd, good natured, ready for
 anything, with an elemental sense of
 humor and good spenders Merchants
 of Birmingham reported yesterday the largest Saturday business of the win
 ter as many of the visitors took oc-
 casion to do their shopping while in the city for the football game.
 The crowds became noticeable yes- terday morning shortly after o'clock when everybody began pushing toward
 the Louisville and Nashville statioo q
 where special trains bearing the Au-
 burn student body were due. It was
 11:30 before the train got in but when
 it did 5000 people were waiting to re.
 ceive it.
 COmmOdores Create Stir
 The station was damned to the doors
 with Auburnites and considerable
 commotion was caused when Van
 derbilt band and a small cohort of
 Commodore rooters invaded the station.
 Everyone took 1t good naturedly.
 for Auburn and Vanderbilt and Gov
 ernor Henderson, who was sitting just
 outside the station waiting for the
 parade to start
 When the band disembarked and the students were marshaled into line the big doings began. Immediately behind the band came Governor Henderson
 and his official party in automobiles and behind them band of students l carrying mops and bearing a sign in scribed, We will mop up with Van derbilt.' Then came the famous Au- burn goat which later in the day was to be the center of a spirited fight be- tween Auburn and Vandy students. h. terspersed in the line of march were students bearing signs telling of pre-
 vious victories this season and car toons at the expense of the Commo- dores. An amusing feature of the pa
 rade was a wooden rail bearing the l effigy of football player and labeled l Vanderbilt after the game" A pie | turesque bit of color was added to the scene by. the cheer and section leaders who were dressed in fantastic colors Wound Up at the Hillman With the parade once under way, the principal streets downtown were traversed in the downtown section
 and the parade wound up at the Hill man where the team was quartered, and cheers of encouragement were fo
 snatch a nasty meal before hurrying to Redwood. as it was almost time for the game to begin.
 Rickwood Field was filled to ca pacity and conservative estimates place
 the attendance at 9500. Suffice it to say, that it would have been difficult to find a place to put another hun | damned and the grandstand was packed while automobiles were lined up in the parking space two deep. The vanderbilt band and rooters chose the left field bleachers, while the Auburn
 ties were seated in the right.
 | There was spasmodic cheering during the first half. but the leaders were evi- dently reserving themselves. Then, too, the dramatic touchdown made by Wander bilt early in the third quarter rather | took the starch out of Auburn. end they were rather quiet reserving their ap- peals to Hold Elm Auburn
 | Auburn found little to cheer over be-
 tween the halves either although this | furnished quite a bit of diversion. As is known it is customary for the Auburn | students to form q giant 'A'' on the field,
 but it was rather small this time as most 1 of the students were interested in what was going on at the flag pole
 Some enterprising Auburn lad had se- cured huge bunch of Orange and Blue ribbon. affixed it to the halyard on the pennant pole and hoisted it. When Van-
 cerbilt scored, Vandy study decided tbat 1t was proper for Auburn's coIors | to yield to the Gold and Black. He acted | accordingly and in an instant there was | an uproar Auburn students who were on | the field swarmed over the fence and
 rushed the flag pole where the vandy colors were ripped from ~the rope and Auburn's restored.
 Nailed Auburn COlOrs to Mast Instantly there was very pretty tussle going on. A hard hearted policeman in- terfered declaring that to settle the ques- tion no colors at all should go up. Ac- cordingly he cut the rope and threw it away. Auburn was nonpused only a moment as an agile boy climbed up the
 slim pole and nailed the Auburn colors to the mast.
 Instead of tamely yielding the field to Auburn during the interval as has been the custom, Vanderbilt rooters, headed
 by band invaded the field at the same
 time the Auburn students did While they were marching back to their seats they passed under the Auburn bleachers and in an instant a lively pillow fight was raging which was only ended when the umpire called time.
 The crownng incident of the day, how ever. came immediately after the game when an attempt was made by the Com modore students in the exhuberance of their enthusiasm to capture the famous Auburn goat. The encounter occurred Just outside of the park and for a few moments warm fight ragged. The cus- todian of the goat was alone for the mo- ment when three husky Vanderbilt men bore down on him and attempted to carry off the goat. Undaunted by the odds, Auburn hung on and yelled for help which was not long in forthcoming.
 Each side was augmented and desperate attempts were made to get the goat away.
 The poor animal gave vent to his suf- ferings in loud '-ba-a-as'' of distress
 when Auburn men held on to his hind legs like grim death while the Commo- dores tugged at his head The goat was finally rescued, however. and borne strug- sling downward smuggied under the sea of a street car.
 Birmingham last night was fairly quiet considering that it was the night after a big football game. Auburn followers had little over which to rejoice and yandy rooters were hardly numerous enough to
 make much of an impression on the town.