The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
Coach Cope Gives BaptiStS
 Plenty Of Action During
 First Week Out On Field. Marion To Meet Locals On Berry Field Next Saturday

Bulldogs of Howard college face their final week of preparation for the 1923 football season. After Sat urday, September 22, the campaign will be on and the weeks of gridiron drudgery will be only fitting mem ories of the past.
 It falls to the lot of the Marion in- stitute cadets to furnish opposition for the Bulldogs in their opening struggle o 1923. It is only fitting that the meeting of the old-time ri- vals should take place on the cam pus of the East Lakers. for Marion has always been chosen foe of the Bulldogs. Last year the two teams battled to a scoreless tie at Rick wood, and, after Towards success in the last spring series with the cadets, Saturday afternoons grid iron battle will probably be one that even the next generation will hear about.
 Marion always brings corking good team to Birmingham, and Sat lrday the cadets are expected to place fighting aggregation on Berry field. Berry field will be ready for the fight, for Berry field has seen lots of those things lately: The week just closed was one of fights and will probably finger in the memories of the Bulldogs for weeks to come as just "one blank ety-blank scrimmage after another"
 Saturday, in preseason training, has always been 6 traditional day of recuperation for gridders and their retainers, but not so in the camp of Cope. Yesterday saw another repe- tttion of what had been taking place on Berry field all week, just an- other scrimmage
 Starting with last Tuesday, Coach Cope sent his squad through daily scrimmages of respectable length. The Bulldog squad is such a large one this year that geunine action has been adopted by the Howard coach as a weeding out and discriminating process. In scrimmage the candi- dates have shown their wares, and in scrimmage the varsity positions will probably be cinched before the sea son is over.
 The week of action just closed brought out several things, particu- larly that the crop of newcomers will probably force the veterans to the limit to retain their berths on the team The freshmen are heavy, willing lot, and have been giving their upper classmen gridiron con semporaries severe jostling all week.
 It would be hard to try to pick a starting team for Saturdays game. Coach Cope himself doesn't know whom. he will Start--at least that what he's been telling the boys all week. and the juggling of the daily line-ups would seem to bear his claims out.
 In the main, Cope has been using his old men against the freshmen, and regular little practice games have been played. The vets are lead ing. k& to their experience more than anything else, having won three and lost one of the tussles dur ing the past week.
 Cope's line this year will probably be heavy and strong, for the influx of freshmen has strengthened that quarter. Captain Bob Shelton and George Yarbrough have been hold ing down ends on one team, while Speer. Scokel. Stephenson. Wilkin- son and one or two others have been used on the other. At tackles on the first team, Garfield, Lasseter. Shep- pard and Hudson. have been used, with Kelly, L. Brewster. Douglass and one or two others on thet ther. The guards on the first have been shifted about between Stubbs. Wells, Mitchell and Dendy, with Brooks and any number of freshmen being used on the other. The centers on the first have been Brindley and Will Hams, with c. Brewster on the resh- man.
 The backfeld situation is clearing up somewhat. Coach Cope has used veterans on his so-called first team all week, with very few exceptions. Ham Stepens has been first quar- terback, with White and Gaylord at