The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-09
Plainsmen Meet
 Benning Eleven
Army Aggregation lnvades Lair of Tigers Today.
 Probable Line-Up

l Auburn, October S-(Special Auburn is working hard improving daily the foot ball team that won the southern inter collegiate championship last year. With the exception of two players, Pearce and ! Grisham the Tigers are presenting the 1 identical first-lne team which last year proved so invincible. Coach Mike Dona- hue believes in making better best. Every afternoon the team has been put through d hard practice over on Drake Field, and Wednesday there was lively scrim- mage between the first and second varsity teams.
 In the two games played so far, with Marion Military Institute and Howard College of Birmingham, the team has per- formed well, not permitting either op- ponent to score against them, but win
 ming 8 to against Marion and ss to Q against Howard. Although the early games on the schedule are always with the lighter teams of the association, they serve 8 splendid purpose as practice games, and Coach Donahue has been spending much time and energy in strengthening out some of the kinks in tl6 pidylIS Ol lHb lteill tllu toiitSblhS
 weak points discovered.
 The particular trouble was q slow nov ing line, heavy with surplus weight. What would you think of over 1,0VO pounds of "too. too solid flesh from tackle to tackle, or san average of 2l0
 pounds per man? There is right tackle, Fatty Warren, at 230 pounds: right guard, Uncle, Emmett Szemore (captD, at 23D pounds: Noah w. Caton at Center, 1S5
 pounds; William Grsham at left guarc at 190 pounds, and Baby Pearce at left tackle, 205 pounds. That's some line of giants, and giants-especall if un- trained--move slowly, That is the ob- stacle iDonahue is overcoming in daily practice. Every day it is drive, drive. drive; charge charge. charge, quickening , their speed in offensive work and replac- ing their fat with lines of hardened mus cle. It may be that some opponents may l find occasional opportunity for going around this line, but they will stand a
 slim chance of going through it.
 1 Another weak point has been, a failure of the back field to follow interference with full effect It is believed, how ever, that this will be easily remedied, for the back field is composed now of men who played together in the s. Ar
 o two years ago-Stubbs, Scott, Howard and Shirling. And it takes real football
 ability and courage to withstand their l fierce drives
 On Saturday the team will play it's last game of the season on the Auburn campus. It will be against the army team over at Camp Benning, near Co., lumbus Ga, which boasts an all-Ameri- can fullback. Last year the second var sity team played them, but it is under stood that this year they have much stronger team and are worthy opponents
 of the Auburn Tigers. However, 1t is an unwritten rule that no visiting team snail be allowed to score on the Auburn cam
 pus, and up to date there has been no motion made to suspend the rules in their favor.
 Saturdays lineup will doubtless be: Oi- finger, left end; Grisham, left tackle;
 Pearce, left guard; Caton, center; Slze- more, right guard; Warren, right tackle; Shirey, right end; Stubbs, auarterback: Scott, left half; Howard, right half; Shir- ling, fullback.