San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-20
SOUTHERN FOOTBALL
STEADILY GAINING
NATIONAL RANKING
Unprecedented Number OF
Inuasions Into North
This Season.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

Copyright, ny me oaH ANTONIO Light
New York, Sept. 19.-ln line with
the writer's oft-repeated statement
that the time is not far away when
many southern football eleyens will be
competing foi l.ational honors lies the
fact that southern invasion of north
ern and western gridirons in the APP
preaching season will be unpreceden;-
ed.
At the starr, September 20, the Uni
versity of Tennessee will appear on
the. plains at West Ioint, with what
prospects the writer cannot say other
than that reports from Camp kaia-
Iaooche where Il squad of so'lc 20
men have been preparing for the sea-
son are optimistic. Striegel, Lane,
Wilson, Hurley, and Clayton have left
holes without doubt, but twelve let
ter men are back and there is an
abundance of experienced substitute
material, with some thirty men from
last years freshman outfit.
But whatever the Volunteers show
at West Point, n word of warning is
hereby waited Harvardward-wateh
out for Florida. The Caters are not
saving much. but they had strong
eleven last year and this season, the
writer understands. the team is loaded
for bear. The idea is that the game
with Cambridge will not be at all one
sided.
Georgia Tech will return the cour-
tesy of Notre Danes 1922 visit by
iourneying to South Bend on Octo-
Der %. And two weeks later Alexan-
der's men will go to Penn State to in
augurate the first of an attractive
home-and-home series.
The University of Georgia will leave
Athens for game at the Yale bowl
on October Is. The bulldogs have ex-
cellent prospects and the Ellis will face
real opposition opposition as hard. il
would seem. as Harvard received from
the men of Athens two years ago. On
this day Vanderbilt. which in 1906 set
the fashion of northern migration. will
appear on Ferry Field against the Uni
versity of Michigan outfit. Last year
when the Wolverines visited Nashville
they were held to scoreless tie by
Metiugin's men.
October IL will see the famous Cen
ire College outfit in action against
the University of Pennsylvania eleven
at Philadelphia. Another interesting
intersectional contest will be waged
between the University of Alabama
and Syracuse.
1t will he interesting to see what
Mike Donohue. the former Auburn
coach. will do at Tulane. 1t would be
too much 10 ask Of him to nlace n
really Formidable eleven unou Iae grid
iron in one season. Init Michael. like
the mills Of the gods. grinds sure
" il slowly and nothing would he
more SURPRISING than to see the
Louisiana institution trailing in the
rnck of Dixie institutions for more
than year or two.
Georgetown VII visit Princeton with
some reason for confidence in the
ability of the team to make the Tigers
hustle.
An interesting sign of the times is
the hom"-,nd -hunr ngreeRont which
Georgia Tech and Penn State have
signed and the tvo-vear series which
Tech and Notre name hogan last sea-
son. In ever-increased degree northern
and western outfits arc going to find
their wav south. But the time is COM
inc when so many southern elevons
will have attained such hiyh standing
that Dixie in the main will he pretty
much engrOssed over her own sectional
offpirS