The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
COMM0DORES CLOSE
SEASON WITH TIGERS
THANKSGIVING DAY
Eight Varsity Eleven Men
VIII Leave Vanderbilt
After This Year-Cody
Has Twelve Letters

Nashville, Tenn, Nov 23.-(SupeciaL)-
Into the depths of pigskin history to
take it's place with the brilliant years
of gridiron warfare so we'll known to
Vanderbilt followers, the Commodore
1919 seasons passes away on Thanksgiv-
ing day. The grid classic with Sewanee's
Tigers from the mountain will mark the
ending of season distinctive in the an
nails of Vandy's football career, in more
ways than one. In the first place, the
year has seen the great autumn game
do the well-known Comeback" from
the period of wartime inactivity, with an
increased interest and a return of the
old college spirit which in days gone by
won name for the roofing legions of
the Gold and Black.
Aside from the return to the old order
of things, the year has been one of many
upsets and has seen certain hopes go
glimmer2g into the void. while others
have materialized with more than the
usual degree of satisfaction to all con-
cerned.
Beginning with a team which embraced
a number of proven stars. Coach Nc
Gugin soon developed a number of the
lesser lights into pigskin battlers of the
highest type, and with the Turkey Day
affair bearing down upon the populace
by leaps and bounds, the Dudley Field
domain promises to harbor a most fin
ished exhibition of the treat em-rough
game when the Commodores swing out
on the landscape for the final tussle
Although the railbirds who daily deco
rate the side lines at the Vandy stamping
! ground will welcome the appearance oil
the team as regular fighting machine,
working together now with precision
which would have carried it through the
season with but few hostile points against
| it's record the same feathered tribe 2an
see the passing of the machine just as
it comes into its own.
EIGHT PLAYERS LEAVE
Next year the coach will have the same
problems to solve. Eight of his stars Will
he lost to the team by reason of the four
year rule, while others have signihed their
| intention of remaining away from the
university. Josh Cody, Tom Lipscomp, All
! Adams Tommy Zerfoss, Jim Gary
| .'Dooche'' Sherman. Frank Goar and TOP
Richardson comprise the octette VINO play
| their final game on Thanksgiving DAY
In the loss of Cody the Commodores sur
fer the worst individual blow of any team
in the south, ss the sterling captain anu
! ia exile is a PLAYER whose equal Will proc
| ably never be found in a Vanderbilt uni
| form. or any other regalia for that mat
| ter He is being freely touted throughout
! the country as all-American tackle, AM
! Grantland Rice is suggesting nm ior ''l''
! nosition on the mythical eleven, Will ce'-
tainly have strong influence towafo '''''
end. .N,o
| The record of Cody has been nota pic
! ono He will leave Vanderbilt in the
spring with y letters, which has peen
surpa ssed on but few occasions IN t'le
south He already has nine, and the ioo,, ,
ball. basketball and baseball seasons VIII
net him an even dozen.
| Josh spent his prep career at Batele
Ground academy at Franklin and Bethe.
| college He was counted ineligible at
| Vanderbilt in 1918, but played tackle IN
"a TX and '16. In 1917 he attended the
first officers training camp at forI
Oglethorpe and won first lieutenant $
commission. He played with the Slst ol-
vision team and won a wide reputation
| IL ar,ov circles where he was pitted
q eainst some of the best stars of the east
and west.
N LOSS OF CODY GREAT
Codv's basketball career has also been
an important one in the history of the
Commodores, being captain IN l9lo-lo. ne
has held down the first string catcher
ion on the baseball nine. When Cody is
gone Vanderbilt will have lost it's great
est athletic star of all time.
Tom Lipscomb, Cody's massive running
mate, is another star of the first water
who goes by the wayside when the cur
tain falls. Bis Tom played at prep
school in Nashville for two years and
has been. assigned to the tackle position
during the years of 1918, A. Is and 10,
He also attended the first officers train
ing camp in the spring of 1917 and was a
captain in the S6th infantry, 18th division.
II ALI Adams, all-Southern end, and a
six-letter man, played with the scrubs
in 1914. and with the varsity in rs, is,
IT and 1919. He was captain of the
varsity in 1917 He attended Camp
Taylor in 1918. and was awarded a
II lieutenant's commission.