The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

The sporting editor of The Age Her aid is an alumnus of the University of Alabama. He has witnessed with few exceptions every college game of football played in Birmingham in the past 15 years and several that have been played in Nashville Atlanta and Tuscaloosa. But had the Auburn-A and M. game been the first he had ever seen he would readily have known that some of the stuff pulled by Aggie individuals was not according to foot ball ethics.
 During the Aggie game the sporting editor of The Age-Herald became so euraged at the conduct of one Aggie player in particular that he jumped out of the press box( ran out onto the field and pleaded with the officials to eau ton the players.
 When University of Alabama
 aIumnus. who has followed football
 for IS years. becomes wrought
 up that he jumps out of the stands,
 rushes out the field and com
 plains that Auburn is getting a raw deal you can bet your bottom dol-
 Isr that Auburn is getting 8 raw
 deal.
 The sporting editor of The Age-Her- aid can and will if necessary make affidavit to the effect that certain A. and M player kicked an Auburn man in the face and that on several occasions A and M. players fell on the necks of Auburn men after they had been down on the ground for several seconds Hundreds, even thousands of Birmingham fans can testify to this.
 ABOUT THE OFFICIALS Mike Donohuc, the Auburn coach
 and one of the coolest leaders in
 Southern football, ran out on the
 field at the same time the sporting
 editor of The Age-Hcrnid did so and complained bitterly of the
 treatment accorded hts men. One
 official told Donohue and the
 sporting editor that the reason
 they didn't penaiixe A. and M. for
 falling Auburn men after they
 down that the players couldn't hear the referee's whistle
 blow ca account of the noise made
 by two bands present and that under the rules players had a right
 to fall each other until they heard the whistle.
 So much fer the officials Coach Chadwick in an article in one of our contem poraries states that the referee and umpire will testify that A. and M. did not play unnecessarily rough. Ger 7 tainlv they will Ipasmuch as they failed to call a penalty for roughness, 1t is assumed that they saw none. Hence the unfavorable criticism re- ceived by them at the hands of many fans
 Coach Chadwick says he can't get statement from one or two Auburn players to the effect that A and M. behaved nicely in the game Auburn football players, like all good sports, are prone to forgive and forget Au- burn is in happy frame of mind after beating A. and NJ. and Tech and she doesn't care about prefering charges against any team. Mike Donohue even now doesn't feel as hard toward A. and NJ as when he told the sporting editor of The Herald that they were the toughest bunch he had ever played against.
 Before the Alabama game am told that Hugo Friedman warned the Mis- Essippi coaches that any rough stuff against the Thin Red Line would not be tolerated and would be followed by severance of athletic relations, coure Mike Donohue threatened to take after the Auburn game.
 WHY THE DELAY
 Why did the coaches and one
 alumnus of Mississippi A. and M.
 wait two weeks, until after the
 Alabama game, before submitting
 statements to the Birmingham
 papers in mn effort to discredit the
 account or the AES1eD roughnesss
 The answer fs easy. They hoped that by putting up a clean exhibi- ton against Alabama they would get the yampathy of University of Alabama men who are also in
 happy frame of mind over the out come of that battle.
 They hoped that also the majority of < the fans who didn't see the other game would assume that the same brand of Ean was played in each, and that The