The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-12
BY MARVIN MCCARTHY

BY MARVIN MCCARTHY
The great Centre college football
team Is in Birmingham. and that
Birmingham. and. in fact. all Ala
bama fandom Is cognizant OF this
fact OF the Praying colonels great
ness IS evidenced by the tremendous
amount of interest being shown in
the game 30 be played at Rickwood
park this afternoon.
It will be the Colonies first ap-
pearance in Birmingham, and. ON
their first trip here they will be
pitted against one OF the most
powerful aggre cations the south pro-
duces each year. the Plainsmen of
Auburn, q team which is rarely ever
bea ten and never trod upon
This afternoon. at Fleetwood park,
Centre and Auburn VIII meet and
the battle resulting between the two
teams is expected to be one of the
feature games of the season for
Dixie.
Game at 2.1S
The game this afternoon begins
promptly at 2.15 o'clock. The gales
will be thrown open a noon today.
and great stream of humanity -
expected to pour through the gates
to quickly fill the section of unre-
served seats sold. The holders OF
reserved and box seats will prob
ably begin 10 arrive later. and by
O'Clock this afternoon a throng OF
some $4,000 fans Will probably be
crowding into lockwood park.
Officials in charge af the game
today announced yesterday that over
10000 tickets had already been sold
and that the pasteboards were going
at an even faster rate than ever be-
fore. By noon 1t is thought every
ticket Will be sold.
Can Sent $4,000
Redwood park has been tusned
into a football field. and arrange
ments have been made 10 seat $4,000
| people, 5000 more than can he taken
care of during baseball season. There
will be standing room for at least
1000 more. officials state SO a ca
pacity crowd of 10000 fans can be
expected.
If 10000 fans crowd into lockwood
park this afternoon they will form
one of the greatest crowds that ever
gathered in Birmingham for any one
event, sporting or otherwise.
The crowd to witness the game this
afternoon is not all local; in fact.
large portion of the spectators this
afternoon will probably be out-of-
town visitors 1t is thought that 5000
fans from over the state will be
here, while 1900 Auburn students
will be on hand. as we'll as about
so faithful ones from Centre. An At
lanta party of about 200 is expected
to be on hand, while a small party
from Chattanooga has already made
reservations
Taken all In all Indications are
pointing to very busy day for Bir-
mingham, and one that viii be re-
membered for some time TO come.
Centre In Faxorite
To get down to comparison of the
teams, the fact that Centre will prob
ably enter the game this afternoon
about a 2 to ! favorite to win points
to how fandom considers the teams
stack up against each other. Such
odds OF 2 to / would seem to indicate
that Centre is considered a much
better team than the Tigers They
are not. Everyone considers that
Centre will win, but no one is con-
ceding the Colonies victory by more
than two or at the most three touch
downs.
There are even some who assert
that IL the Plainsmen get the jump
on the Colonies that they will win.
Centre has one of the greatest for
ward passing systems in the country
today, while Auburn has one of the
strongest lines and most impregna-
BILE defenses in Dixie. If Auburn can
break up Centres forward passes,
the Plainsmen are considered to stand
a fair chance of holding the Colonies.
Auburn's star BacIsieId Sc
In Stirling, Shirley, Gibson, Scott,
and Ollrger. Donahue has good
backheld. one that should be able
to give the Centre line trouble. Law
renee, Pierce, Cation, Moulton ana
others make the line appear like
stone wall.
"Bo" Mcmillan, Snoddy. Red Rob-
erts, Armstrong. Tanner and kubais
are Centres best bets, and they are
good enough to make any team seem
to be a world beaten. 1t was Nc
Mfllan's great work that scored on
Harvard, while the defensive work Of
the limo held the crimsons at eriti-
cal times.
Both ON Hand
Both Auburn and Centre arrived here
Yesterday. The Colonies got in at
1880 and were hustled right off I,
TIE Country club. where they had
training table and work out yestsf-
day.
Auburn arrived at noon, and local
alumni took them to the Roebuck
club. where the afternoon was spent.
a light workout being taken.
The Centre squad that made the
trip 70 Birmingham follows;
30 Mcmillan, Terry Snoddy, Roy
Glass. Jimmy Green, Case Thomson,
Joe Murphy, Badly Cregor. Bill
James Red Roberts. Tommy Moran,
son OF Coach Moran; Bill Shadoan,
Hump Tanner. Buck Jones, Tom
Bartlett, Minos Gordy Dewey Kim
bel, Royce Flippin, Clifton Lemon.
George Chinn. FRANK Rubarth, Rich
ard Gibson. Herb Covington. Don
Beane. Ed Kubale and Hope Hudgins.
John McGee, student manager. train
ers Anderson. and Caudill and Cheer
Leader Swinebread. also arrived with
the team.
Birmingham will be football town
today Streamers. crowds. yells and
color bedecked autos will make the
day one OF celebration for local fam
dom. Then. at 2:15. comes the big
game.