The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
"Hoss" Candy Will Captain This Years Birmingham
 Southern Team


 the annual football grind starts, there is little definite that can be said as to what Coach Charlie Brown and his staff of athletic instructors will have at Birmingham Southern lLJllege, from which to pick the ma chimes that will be sent out to carry the gold and black into competition on southern athletic fields. How ever, spirit of optimism pervades Sunshine Slopes, and little doubt is entertained but that the Panther will be fullgrown, man-eating beast when he is finally loosed on the field
 Despite the fact that several varsity men will not report for duty under Coach Brown this year, fol- lowers of the Hilltop Warriors see silver lining in the prospects from graduating classes of last year in the various high schools and the neu- cleus of veterans that will be back for service.
 Probably the central unit around which the Panther gridiron machine will be constructed this fall will be Stanton Big Hoss" Candy, veteran end, and captain of the 1928 team, who got mention on the Southern picks last year. Big Hoss" is prob ably the outstanding end of recent H. starred in practically every game in which he played last year and never failed to cause comment wherever he appeared with the Sutshine Slopes even on foreign fields. In Sewanee the scribes said: He is the best end that has appeared on the Mountain Tn years. In all the games his work on the defensive, particularly, was an outstanding feature of the gold and black teams play. Going down under punts he is at his best, back ing up the line his Is unpassable. Coach Brown will expect much of this player next fall. He will prob ably do part of the bunting, also. Center Strong.
 At center there are two good men who, though light, are very aggres- slVe and worked with machine-Hke precision in games last season, Hoy cite LeVie and Rip" Rawls will probably alternate at the pivot posI-. tion. Levle weighs only about 155 or l60 pounds, bus hits a line with everything he's got and Keeps flgh~- ing throughout He won his way onto the team by his hard playing and in addition has a fast. accurate pass. Rawls Is a little heavier man and has pass that Is as accurate as rifle shot, Even on the muddiest days, when he had to scrape the mud from the ball. he put that spiral on 1t that reduces the chances of fum- bles to minimum, At Mississippi college last year, playing in a sea of mud, 1t was his passing that helped the backs handle the ball without fumbling
 At tackles, Ham" Weeks. the CulI- man star, will be back to hold down position. At the other tackle Big Boy" Ellis will be back to take up hls duties on the squad. Both men played reliable ball last season and should be big factors In holding up the Panthers' repu- tation as a team with brick wall defense next year,
 Candy At End,
 At ends, "Hoss" Candy will play his old position, On the other end, Cotton" Caldwell will probably be back to hold down a flank, How ever, there are several good men who will go. out for these positions. Jimmy shelton played good ball at the end on the scrub team last year and several veterans, now playing other positions, can be shifted to end.
 In the backfield, the Panthers lost heaviest, but still have a likely bunch of material corralled for the start Red" Richardson, star of many games last season, will probably be the handspring of this years Of tensiVe. June" Anderson, flashy l.t- tie reserve quarterback last year, will probably be the outstanding candi- date for that Tosltion this year "Bullo" Williams fleet runner of Tuscaloosa High teams. will be back to take backfield position. There is abundance of good material from which fast baclSfield can be se- lected that worked under Hawkins on the scrub team last year.
 Practice will probably start on September l2, the first day of school, and Coaches Brown and Wingo will give the squad a tough course of training in order to set them in too shape for the first game of the season with Jacksonville State Normal here.
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