The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-04
MANY SHIFTS ARE MADE IN CRIMSON LINEUP BY WADE
Varsity ScrimmageS Fresh man Team And Shows
 More Promise

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Oct. 3.-Some improvement in the play of the Grim son Tide has been noticed the last such an extent that the students have forgotten the football exhibition last Saturday.
 Coach Wade continues experiment. ing with his aspirants for the regular berths, but daily it is seen more and more who will start. About the only line positions not assured, 1t seems, are the guard positions. Off-hand it seems that Jones and Camp, two freshmen of last year. will occupy these places next to Propst. Ennis and Langhorne have not been rele- gated to the second squad yet, and it would not be surprising to see either of these two stalwarts in at any time Jones is also serving as sub center.
 Scrimmage against a second fresh man eleven has heartened the hopes of Alabamians to some extent. Where week ago the line alone seemed unsettled, today it is the back field that is conglomerated with question marks. Whitaker is doing some very effective interference work, and also passing the ball to short and far corners of the field with aceu
 rateness MacCartee and McClintock are still doing their onetwo at quar- terback and as yet neither has the ledge on the bother. Baty returns Thursday in his uniform. Hubert Mack Brown and Barnes are still holding their own and doing well. And there are others slightly in ar rears of those named.
 What four men will constitute. Ala bama's first attack is hard to say. Hubert, of course, is one. MacGarttee or McClintock will be the second one. Whitaker, Brown and Baty will scrap it out for the half-back positions. That leaves Oliver and | Gillis Oliver plays haffoack berth part Of the afternoon and continues to alternate at end with Hudson the other part of the day. Whether he will serve as a back, as an end, or find place further in the line is to be decided. It is hardly thought this heavy boy will not start somewhere. At this time, Coach Made is pay ing quite a bit of attention tG the aerial end of the game because of the fact that he is overly pleased with the number of men who can hurl the spheroid down the field for either short or long distance. Crab bling these passes are Captain Clem- ems and Hudson. MacCartee and Me Clintock are doing a great deal of
 the passing, Whitaker some and Gillis little. Brown Gillis and the two Macs" are doing the bunting.
 Grant Gillis is improving every day that he appears on Denny Field for practice. This youngster, weigh ing slightly Jess than 160 pounds, is in class with Barnes and Brown when it comes to speed. He is one of the best punters on the lot and Coach Wade has given him plenty of work to do as a halfback. With Whitaker and Brown, he has been doing practically all the work at the halfback position, and it is almost sure that he will be one of the first to enter 'Bama games
 Secrett practice continues at Ala bama and will probably continue most of the season. Coach Wade al lows very few persons inside Denny Field to watch his varsity squad go through their scrimmage with the freshman, and as he is teaching them the plays that will carry Ala bama to defeat or victory this year, lit is easily seen why he does not want these plays tc be on the lips of every student at school.
 Regarding weights of the Alabama team. Compton is the heaviest of the lot, sealing about 207 pounds, few pounds less than last year. Next
 to Compton comes Buckler, Propst
 and Langhorne, all below the 195
 mark. Alabama's line should aver age slightly more than 1S0 pounds
 tC the man. while the backs will average about ITO pounds. Backs average will be reduced greatly Be-
 cause of the lghtness of Baty,
 Barnes, Brown, McClintock and
 Gills.