The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-05
RAIN AND MUD PLAYED A BIG
 PART IN SOUTHERN CONTESTS
Alabama And Mississippi A. & M. Furnished Big Sur prises By Holding Opponents To ScoreIesS Ties

LAIN A, 1d-f 1NON fs--INdlh anu plain old fashioned mud were impor tant factors in at least two sur prises in the south's gridiron bat ties of the weekend. Alabama and a steady drizzle held Georgia Tech to to a nothingall tie and in Nashville the Mississippi Aggies and a field of slippery mire fought the Vanderbilt Commodores to zero stand-off.
 heavy field made everything but straight and steady football impos- sible. This. and the Crimson's al- most perfect defense in close forma- tions, kept the Yellow Jackets from putting over the one touchdown, margin. Alabama displayed only suggestion of attack, making no first downs and gaining less than 40 yards, net. When the play shift ed within hailing distance of the Crimson goal, Gillis kicked and kick
 The Vanderbilt Commodores out played the Aggies and frequently ad- vanced within threatening distance of the final chalk line, but Vandy fum- bles with a slippery ball and uneasy footing spoiled any chances for 8 score.
 Georgia Lucks Out.
 A lucky break when Day inter cepted pass and raced 65 yards for a touchdown, gave Georgia a 2 to o victory over her traditional rivals, the Auburn Plainsmen, in the first half of their game in Columbus, and then the teams settled down to a nip and tuck in the rain in the last half. Auburn displayed unexpected offense except in the air, many passes being broken up.
 Fumbles, penalties, personal bat ties and more rain and mud featured the defeat of Tulane by Tennessee 1 3 to 2, at Knoxville. Tulane kept it's aerial weapons in the hangar and Tn ground fighting netted only a touch back in the first period. The Volun- teers scored in the opening and final periods. falling to net the seventh point on the second try.
 Virginia and Washington and Lee fought two periods to a draw at Lex ington and then Captain Cameron of the Generals, went into the game at fu1lback and led his teammates to Old Dominion-s goal line, which he crossed himself. Virginia's offense fizzled against the Generals defense every time a score loomed. The final count was to 0.
 Clemson which battIed Auburn to a scoreless tie at the opening of the | season, played Virginia Tech and aft CT rushing over six points in the first period, settled down, vainly l trying to keep the Virginians from | scoring. V. P. I. ran up 25 points, | six of them being supplied by Ruth erford. booting two infield goals. one from the 35-yard line.
 Tar Heels Wins Annual Battle.
 North Carolina played all around | South Carolina, so far as the record sheet goes, but the score board gives the Tar Heels only IS points, to none for the Game Cocks, who held their neighbors to the second period. South Carolina failed to register first down, against 20 for North Carolina, but the Game Cocks defense stood up repeatedly in pinches on the one and three-yard lines and within the | 16-yard mark.
 Mercer of Macon, handed the Flor | ida Gators a surprise at Gainesville | by scoring a touchdown in the first | half, and while the Floridians ran up | 1S points to win, Mercer fought every | foot of the way.
 Universally of Kentucky fell before | Centre at Danville, Centre dedicat- l ing her new stadium with a 10 to 0 l score. King College ran it's total for the season to 432 by beating Mil ligan 40 to 0. At Chattanooga, Uni versity of Chattanooga and Sewanee splashed to a muddy 26 to 0 victory for Sewanee, and Emery and Henry proved an easy task for Virginia Military institute, 46 to O.
 North Carolina State nosed out Da- vidson, 12 to 6, Trinity had an easy time with Elon winning 39 to o, and Citadel beat Newberry 21 to T. Will liam and Mary won 20 to o, from Hampden Sidney and Richardson de- feated Randolph Macon, 12 to o. | Howard defeated Millsaps 14 to 6.