The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-28

tat haHulNdP Win winch they appear 10
be burdened in this annual classic Ala
bama has won but three of Is games with
Sewanee, and in those three the Crimson
had twice as good a team. Sewanee has
habit of showing up poorly in their
early season games. They can always ut
counted upon to make life miserable tyr
the Alabamians, however.
This is not written to convey the inn
tpression thar Alabama is linked" when
battling Sewanee, Eat merely to warn
overconfidence. During my rah rah day
l have bet two to one on Alabama against
Sewanee. several times, and game hungry
for weeks thereafter as a result.
Coach Dillon of Howard college, whose
team played both Auburn and Sewanee,
told me that the Purple was stronger
than Mike Donohue's machine. Coach DBL
Ions team has also played both Alabama
and Sewanee and his boys know better
than anybody else that Saturdays game
will be some scrap. Howard is the only
team that both Alabama and Sewanee has
played.
Because Sewanee has been beaten by
both Georgia and Kentucky they are con-
sidered weak. Georgia has one of the
strongest teams in it's history, as EVIL
denced by it's 16 to victory over the
heavy Florida team last week, and Ken
lucky expects to beat Vanderbilt Satur-
day, so neither of these conquerofs OF
the Purple should ne undereStimated.
They say that both Sessions and Brown
will be absent from the Alabama lineup
Saturday. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that these two are the,m powerful men
among the Crimson forwards, and their
loss will be distinctly felt man who
was at the university yesterday told me
that Sessions elbow was swollen up as
large as his head. If so he may as well
be counted out now
Alabama has the best team on paper
| 16ere's no doubt about it, but without
going further back than the late world S
| series, / can cite you a paper cham-
|, pion that looked like hunk of limburger
! in the real melee. Alabama is doped ro
| figured to cop in games. Use your own
! judgment.
| AS for the Auburn and Georgia game,
can only say it will be pity to miss it
Georgia, with an all-American center in
the person of Day, and a fast backfield
of veterans, will push Auburn fully as
nara as SeWanee goes Ala Dan1a. AUBURN
| has a great team. rate them consider
ably higher than / did before the Vandy
game Auburn is going into that Georgia
game the 1naddess team that ever took
the field. The Plainsmen realize they
should have beaten Vandy, and having
profited by their mistakes, will do much
/ better against the Georgians.
Georgia on the other hand has an I'M
broken record of victories for the season.
and is still in the race for the southern
chang ionship, though most Everybody
awarded it to Tech before the season
started good. The Georgians look UPON
the game with Auburn as the big battle
: of THE sea son, and they are going Ia
make the Tiger hustle for the decision
Frankly, think both Alabama and Au-
burn will win. In reaching that con-
clusion. however, I may have allowed
patriotism to get the better of good ju1g-
| ment.
| Other games for Saturday of more OF
| Tess Importance to local fans are the Van.
| derbilt- Kentucky State game at Lexing
ton, the Tech-Davidson scrap at Atlanta
the Washington and Lee-v. p I. battle
| at Lynhburg, the l.. S. U.-Miss A. and
M. bout at Starksville and the Pennsyl-
nia-Penn. State game at Philadelphia.