The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-29
Athletic Club Blues Play Two Big Cage Games Here This Wee
DIXIE GRID ELEVENS GET REAL TEST NV NORTH NEXT SEASON


 ATLANTA. Ga, Jan. 2S.-When the gridiron hosts swing into action for the 1923 campaign, major leaguers of the football world in the north and east will find themselves invol- untarf1y bracing against the attack of powerful elevens that will go laundering up from the south to en- gage them in warfare. Heretofore the invasion of the squads from Dixie has met with varied success, but has been sufficiently noteworthy 10 make the leading colleges Of the country seek return dates With the best of the southern institutions to such an extent that there is now keen rivalry for the choice dates.
 Advancement of football in the south has been so material in recent years that the big universities or ether sections have found real danger in the annual pilgrimages or the various teams to their domains The feat of Centre college in 1921 when they beat Harvard at Cam bridge attracted attention to the "wonder team" while the strong fight put up by Georgia Tech Au- burn and others, and the victory or Alabama over the University or Pennsylvania also put these unl- versailles in the limelight.
 Intersectional competition nrst reached a high stage between the north and east teams and the south back in the days when Dan McGugin first started turning out wonderful machines at Vanderbilt. It will be recalled that in 1906 the Vanderbilt Commodores trampled the great Car lisle Indians, then at the peak oi their glory, by a score of to U, ana in 1910 the Commodores held Yale to a scoreless tie in New Haven. Two years later the Vanderbilt team held a great Harvard eleven to to , score, and from time to time achleVeu singular success in tntersectlonal competition. Only last season Me Gugin's fine combination held Mich- igan to scoreless tie.
 Many Going North
 A survey of the tentative schedules for 1923 reveals the fact that many Dixie teams will invade the north for games that should rank among the best of the season. There IS touch of color to these clashes be- tween the greatest teams of the coun- try and the cream of the southern prfds that cannot be matched even in Big Three" or Big Ten" play. Bitter rivalry of 1861 that swept through the war lines of Lee and Grant has been laid to rest, but rom it has grown a modern form Of ath- letic competition that knows no bounds.
 Tech Meets Notre Dame
 Among the splendid north south battles of the ensuing campaign may he listed the clash of Georgia Tech's s famed Golden Tornado" with the RocKne stalwarts at South Bend on october 27, and again with Penn State at State College. Pa, two weeks later, the game between the Uni- versity of Georgia Bulldogs" and Yale in New Haven, on october IS; vanderbilt's engagement with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, on October IS, Centres session with the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; University of A1abama's 8 battle with Syracuse college, at Syra- cuse; North Carolina, at Yale, and possibly others of almost as much importance. Virginia fails to play an eastern team for the first time in something like ten years, Certainly from this array some of the best games of the season should develop. Dixie Teams Improve
 Although the records show where few of the intersectional games have Teen won by the south, there is a growing strength in the Dixie ma ekines that the north and east have learned to know, and where such games have been regarded lightly in