The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-21
Secrecy Is
 Mtchuord
 or Sewanee
By CHARLIE W. UNDERwooD


 Sewanee, Tenn, November 2O.-Secrecy is the watchword at Sewanee in the closing days of the campaign against the Commodore.
 Everybody goes about finger upon lip. and even the steam radiators say sh-sh-sh! The football field is taboo. Abells athletes work in the strictest se- clusion, the field being surrounded on three sides by cordon of sentinels and on the other by public road. The team is very shy. It is said that the other day professor, out for a stroll, found himself near the sacred precincts of Hardee, and, was startled by beholding the whole team under the leadership of the coach rise from scrimmage and wildly flee into the adjacent forest.
 The new plays for Vanderbilt are. all secret, but it is hard. to get the better of a reporter. The other day this one stole the biggest telescope on the moun- tain and mounted a gum tree about two miles from the field. From this point of vantage he soon solved the whole secret system. He is thus able to divulge all oc the secrets which are to overwhelm the unsuspecting Commodores next week.
 TIGER SECRETS
 The first secret play is puiIed off at the kickoff, when all the men hide behind the goal posts instead of forming out on the field. When the ball is kicked off by Vanderbilt, the Tigers lie hidden un- til the Vanderbilt team has come down the field and got well scattered looking for some one to tackle, and then Skid more sneaks out and slips away with it while the rest of the team distract Van derbilt's attention by suddenly rushing out from behind the goal post and shout ing "Boo!
 The hidden ball play seems bound to make touchdown. as it is hard to see what defense Vanderbilt can devise against it. It works as follows: A man is put into the game with an artificial hump on his back. When his signal is gwen, he slyly removes the hump, which is made of an old sweater, and stuffs it into the seat of Bill Coughlans pants He then takes his place behind the line of scrimmage, and when the ball is passed Harper tucks the ball up under his jersey in place of the hump. After this is done the rest is easy. He simply strolls away in the direction of the enemy goal with bis hands in his pockets This play seemed to york well against the scrubs:
 What Vanderpilt has to fear more than anything else, however, Is the hidden player play. This play is entirely original and will be worked on Vanderbilt for the first time in the history of Intercollegiate football It is pulled off by having in the lineup given to Vanderbilt a man named Jimmie Baird. When the team runs out for preliminary practice this man will be made up to exactly resemble Coach Abell Baird was selected for this from large number of freshmen ap- plicants because he is about Abells build. When the whistle blows this man will crawl under the bench and Aben will take his place in the lineup
 From the foregoing it will be seen that. having to contend with a hidde1 ball, a hidden team and a hidden player, Van derbilt is in for some rough sledding on turkey day." unless somebody tells her about all this beforehand. which in the face of the wonderful secrecy thrown around Hardee field is hardly possible.