The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
Uncrossed Goal Line of Crimson
 Machine Stands Against Sewanee
 Tigers In Annual 71H Saturday
Alabama Only Big Team in Dixie Remaining to Be Scored Upon-Entire Stu dent Body to Attend the
 Game-Johnson May Play

University, October 2S.-(Spe-
 ciaI.)-When the sun went down
 on the battle scared football
 fields of Dixie Saturday the Uni
 versity of Alabama was the only
 big college team in all the sOuth-
 land with an uncrossed Goni line.
 The goal line of the Alabama
 team has not even been in danger,
 the nearest approach to touch
 down being f1uI<e with Missis-
 sippi college when player got
 away for one long run.
 Sewanee comes next Saturday, then Vanderbilt and either L. s. U. or Tu- lane on Thanksgiving. If none of these teams develop unexpected strength, Alabama followers hope to go through the season not only undefeated but also unscored on. The majority ot football games are shutouts and II Alabama goes through her schedule without defeat her chances of not
 Reports have come to the Alabama campus of great Sewanee strength and even more strenuous practice than heretofore will be in order or the Crimson fieid from now until aft CT this most important game. Alabama has not met an antagonist yet that had the power to really test the teams s reserve power and just how the new men will stand the strain of big game is not known.
 MANY NEW MEN
 In the lineup that faces Sewanee perhaps several more The new men have all kinds of energy and spirit, but they may lack the steadiness and nerve that only experience can give. At any rate, Coach Kelly will give his men all the hardening work he can this week. The scrubs will be given Sewanee plays and formations to try against the varsity and the new men will be accustomed as much as possible to what they may expect Saturday.
 Johnson. the star guard. who has been out of practice for the last week is much better now and is able to leave his room. There is still but a small chance of his getting into the ocWdHee Sdme, put ne VIII C6rCd1nIy be back in condition for the Wander : bilt battle. Johnson is a veteran of last season and weighs around 1S0. He is considered one of the most val. uable men on the Alabama squad and his return to the game will be well comed with joy by his team's sup porters.
 Another accident that marred the football season at Alabama was the h,-a, Irs. a candidate for the varsity the first part of the season, and later joined the grass cutters" as the near var sity is called. In a game last week his left arm was fractured below the elbow and he was put out for the rest of the season.
 INTEREST GENERATED Mass meetings and yell practices will be held almost every night this week by the Alabama student body and all kinds of pep will be generated The entire student body, 800 strong, will come to Birmingham for the game and the vanguard will begin to arrive about Thursday. The Sewanee game is | considered the most important game on the schedule and every effort throughout the entire season is di- rected to the winning of this game. For the last two years Alabama has been victorious although last year her victory came in the last few minutes | of play and was only one point This l is considered to be the third and de- l cisive year in which to defeat the purple tiger. and to establish such a 1 jinx over her that she will never again win this game The Alabama followers feel that a victory this year would clearly show their schools ath. letic supremacy over it's rival and that the Tiger would never again be so formidable after three consecutive whippings.
 This may be Coach Kelly's last year at the university and for this req son victory is especially desired, so that he may have a clear record of three victories out of three years at the university with the Crimson's an cient foe. For all these and mum Der of other reasons, the Alabama fol lowers are determined that they will h vi ot ct