The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-06
GREAT BANQUET STAGED BY >BAMA ALUMNI WEDNESDAY,
wade Signs Contract For
 Three More Years At 'Bama-Hubert is Elected
 Captain Of Team For 1924


 JaYe the biggest banquet in the his- t.ry Of Alabama at the Country club Hednesday night, when they feasted Melr varsity team of 1923, their fruos, their freshmen, their old sne athletes and all the high school sere about 500 in all who enjoyed alumni. ''ii''
 The most. interesting announce ment was made by Dr. George H. Denny, president of the university. Wnen he mentioned the fact that ourInG the course of the afternoon m tuscaloosa and on the train com Ing to Birmingham they had com pieted an agreement with Coach Wllnam Wallace Wade, wherein his serNlces as coach of the Alabama football teams for three more years was secured. Dr. Denny also an houced that at the same time the council re-employed as an assistant Crisp. He completed the announce ment With one that brought great aemonstration from the middle sec tfon of the hall, where the Ala odma Freshmen were seated, that aoach Bully Vandegraff would be teturned for the coming year.
 Capt. Al Clemens. after introduc- S.c varsity men, announced that they had elected as captain of the team of 1924 Pooly Hubert, All southern fullback, and as alternate Jack Longhsrne, tackle, also men toned for AlI-Southern.
 The three members of the varsity, who have been with them for the last time, CaVtain Clemens, Tom New ton and ". c. Rubber" Baty. were especially 'honored and were present. f1Il Ieriy, fat, of the esteem in which they are held by the alumni.
 Names Great Eleven.
 A team was named as the great est team of those who did not play their full four years at Alabama and was IS follows: Ends, Joe Sewell and Cooper; guards, Robin Hood and Ralph Jones'. center, Tram Sessions i; quarterback, Luke Sewell; halves, OConnor and Lenoir; fullback, Riggs Stevenson.
 Among those of the old-time ath- leses that were present were the following: Dr. E. A. Smith, the patron saint of Alabama football of the class of GA, age S1; Billy Walker, first quarterback; next quarterback, Hugh Morrow; third quarterback Borden Burr, now All Southern tlmekeeper;" fourth quarterback, Charlie Comstock; J. Motion Smith was next as one of the best of his day; Pat Gresham, one of the great ones of 1910 and 1911 as tackle; Tom Pritchard; Monroe Lanier, end; Jelks Cabaniss; Cupid Powell, tackle 1913; Jake Taylor, fullback; Frank Clark, fullback, 1904 and 1905; Joe Mudd Captain Harsh; Mcdowell, 1910; Earl Drennen of the dark days of 1901, 1902 and 1903, and vande- sraff, one of the best of all time; as baseball players, Harrell Robinson as track men, Henry Beatty; as sup porters of athletics. Champ Pick ems ; Hugo Friedman; Bob McDavid, the man who was responsible for the banquet, and Berney Perry. These men were mentioned as opponents of the .sportsman who had not only been great athletes but had proven that after all the men who make the best players are the ones who amount to something afterward.
 Two Great Centers.
 Tram Sessions was mentioned as the man who, If Shorty Propst were ever busted from the berth, would go down. as center of all time.
 The spirit exhibited by all those were present was admirable and the words spoken by Coaches Wade, Crisp and Vandegraff were to the effect that the thing that mattered most was the way that one played the game.
 Borden Burr, in speaking of coach es, said that the day of thugs as football coaches had past and that all men who were real football fans as know it as it is played today know that the great obj0t of the thing was the making ol men and that the character of the men pro- duced depended on the character of the coaches. He said the Alabama coaches were three of the cleanest, most honorable men that ever stood on a football field. He presented Coach Wade with a beuatiful trophy and Coaches Crisp and Vandegraff With watches.
 The high school teams which en- joyed the. hospitality of the Alabama alumni were as follows: Phillips. Ensley, Woodlawn, University High; Shades -Cahaba, Jones Valley, Fair field. Bessemer, Jefferson County, McAdory. Oak Grove. Leeds and Floyd Tillary's Inter-Frat team. The toast master told these boys that they wanted them, no matter what uni- versity or. college they went to. to continue to play the brand of foot ball that they had been playing and so uphold the name of the great