The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-05
Howard Ready to Leaue for Second
 Tennessee I'D

Saturday afternoon, on the blue grass gridiron of Dudley field-con sidered the finest football stadium | in the south-the Bulldogs of How ard college will face the Vanderbilt Comm dores-cC nsidered the finest football team in Dixie. The men ] of Cope are just back from mem orable invasion of Tennessee, where they battled the Sewanee Tigers off their feet, only to lose by to 2 score, and today are ready for an ( ther trip into the hill country. The Bulldogs play the Vandy Commo- dores on the latter's home soil at the East Lake pastimers are agreed that no harder foe is to be met this season than the Commodores.
 It will be a changed eleven that | trots out on the field to battle the G mmodores Saturday. The Bulldog eleven that held SeWanee to a to 2 score was nobody's weakling by any means, but the team that meets Van derbilt will probably be even stronger than that one, due to the influx of freshmen material onto the squad.
 Freshmen were not eligible against Sewanee, but against Vanderbilt, all available strength-varsity and re- serve-can be thrown into the fray. | he will take 22 men to Nashville for the game with the Csmmodores about evenly divided between freshmen and upper class men.
 Four "Rats'' In Line-Up.
 There will probably be at least four freshmen In the lineup against | Vanderbilt, with a few other shifts l having been made in the lineup, due to injuries and other causes. Among | the injured who will be unable to make the trip are Dan Gaylord, vet eran backfield performer, and Hugh Garfield, playing his second year at varsity tackle berth. Dan Gaylord has a badly sprained hand that will probably keep him out of the game for at least another week, while Hugh Garfield Is generally under the weather with bad ankle, and other | injuries. Both will be badly missed against Vanderbilt Saturday.
 The Bulldogs held their final workout before leaving town Thurs day afternoon. The exodus to the lair of the Commodores will take | place on the late train to Nashville Friday afternoon, the Bulldogs re- turning tC Birmingham some time Sunday.
 Here is the team that Coaches Cope and Dobbins will probably start | and Shelton, ends; Kelly and Dendy, tackles; Brooks and Bains, guards; C. Brewster, center; Stevens, quar- terback; Mccarthy and Stubbs, half l backs; Lollar, fullback. The remain der of the squad that will prob ably make the trip to Nashville are: Brindley, center; L. Brewster and l Lasseter, guards; Sheppard, tackle; Tinkelpaugh, quarterback; White and
 Webber, halfbacks; Bolen, fullback.
 Brindley Is Injured.
 Bo Brindley, captain of the 1922 eleven and regular center Is on the
 injured list. and probably won't be able to start the game against Van derbilt Saturday.
 The Bulldogs are going to Vandy
 with the idea of holding the Com | modores to a gruelling battle, and themselves are not at all sure of the outcome of the lgame. Coach Cope s | men are not in the lease Cverconfi- dent of their powers, but past per- formances have taught them that a
 teams success Is often measured by
 it's fighting ability, and the Bulldogs are going to Vanderbilt to battle the Commodores off the blue grass grid iron of Dudley Stadium.
 Coaches Cope's and Dobbins' grid
 ders have played tive good football games this season, and all Howard is
 behind the team. Birmingham has a corking good representative in the Crimson and Blue warriors of East
 Lake. and is beginning to awaken to the value of cooperation With any kind of backing at all, the team that l Cope and Dobbins have at Howard should crash through tC one of the l most successful seasons a Howard college football team ever had.