The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
SideHghts Of Football
 Day in Birmingham

Football day in Birminghaml Crowds, bands, colors. hoodlums. Gosh, about half-past dawn and the whole town Is stirring. Two games 1 today. Fog. Claxons sound. Lights that search through the sticky at mosphere. Walker plays Central in the forenoon. Game starts at 10 o'clock. (That o'clock sounds Irish, eh, wot?) Recess for lunch. Then 1 comes the tilt between University of Alabama and Vanderbilt. Half past 2. Some dish today, I'll say. Look at the colors. Gold and black and Crimson and White everywhere you turn. The former for Central and for Alabama. The latter for Walker and Vandy. That's old John Coincidence In person for you. Double header, and the colors for the preps and the big boys match It sometimes happens that way.
 Hotel Hobbies. Beehive stuff. regular bedlam-whatever that is. Crowds on the streets. The asphalt is getting clogged. The national pas time-pavement pounding. Wander bilt students here, 300 strong. Came in on a special train. Alabama stu dents here, over 500 of 'em. Another excursion. Walker county here. Jas per made 1t unanimous They brought TOO over by petrol phaeton and cii.der- spreader. Great gobs of goulash! Or words to that effect. A stamping, swaying, shouting. cheer ing mob. Youngsters having a great time Vandy Is forming parade. To hate to be Vanderbilt student. Laundry bills too high. For that handkerchief waving song, every body's gotta have clean hanky. There they go down the street-lick- etry-split. Austere brethren ogling them fercely. Boys in the line ot march with close decision haircuts, Funny little hats not much bigger than the dot on a little 'i." Cant kids act foolish?" says gray-haired man on the sidewalk. And yet, m sure I saw him in a fraternal parade some time back.
 Walker and Central off for combat. Street cars with trailers, loaded to the well known gills: I believe I'll cross the street here. Nothing like having a trolley car to run inter ference for you, when you're pull ing a hen. You know what l mean. Hens always cross the stret- There goes Dock Kuhn. quarterback, for the Commodores. Docks got his ankle III DdHudB anu WVh DN
 to play. But Nhes bandaged the wrong foot. It's the other one that's hurt. That's strategy for you. commodores? Names obsolete. Navy don't have commodores any more. Looks like they'd get up a new nickname.
 A bunch of members of the alumni meet at a street intersection. A trick from the Latin quarter. If one man Is an alumnus, 1t always looked to me like several should be alumnuses. The Alabama Special just got h. 1 they tell me. Parade is forming. They gotta band 'neverything. 80 has Vandy, too. Listen to that minor brother. That's a minor from Asia Minor, I'll say. Drums. slide trom- bones, comets, tubas, tenors, oarl- tones Here they come. Wish that euv would keep off my feet. Must i think he's dancing with somebody.
 A swaying, shrieking. rowling, cheering mass of humanity coming down the street That's the Alabama parade. Gents with graying temples, ! looking on and cheering. Faces beamin.g. An, it carries 'em back. They're living over the scenes or their own college days. Stocks-bonds- montgages- margins. That's what dug
 those furrows in the frontispiece. But such a demonstration carries 'em back cant get the thrill Never had an Alma when l was growing up. But Illiteracy and
 were frat brothers in the scheol of Experience.
 wish that fellow would watch
 where he's expectorating. Must think
 the c. in my name stands for GUS pidor or something. Thought they'd q
 ruled the splitter out of this league, anyway. No use to go to Redwood
 for football. There's bevy of zap
 pers trying to pull an end run around me. Wonder where the conflagra- tion is Looks like they're going to a fire. Hose? Amt nothing else | Either skirtsseare getting shorter or they've swunk up in the wash
 Hawkers, displaying big boards filled
 with Red and White colors. That
 geek buying one never went to col lege in his life. It's stall. Hell get by with 1t though. I've heard
 young fellows who didn't get the
 drift when you told 'em to parse
 something on both sides, and who newer got beyond the fourth grade q; | grammar school, cheer themselves to |