The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-28
Georgia Tech Is In Limelight At Alabama Today

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Oct. 27.- There's single thought in the minds of everyone attending the University of Alabama-and that thought is
 relative to the Tech Alabama foot ball game next Saturday: Will Ala
 bama beat Tech?
 Starting off the second half of their ten-game schedule with a rec ord unmarred Up to date by an eleven from Dixie, Alabama enters the Tech
 fray favorites to lose. just like al-
 most every team begins game at
 Grant field. However, it will be a
 different Alabama machine that Tech will face this year; it will be a
 machine schooled more in the art of defense than in the art of offense. And, at the same time. there will
 be a backfield that will have the
 punch necessary to score when the opportunity presents. Coach Wal
 lace Wade has not ben playing
 around with his backs to pass the
 time away these past few days-it
 has been a gradual development,
 enabling him to determine the four
 backs when assembled together as the Tides backfield carries the great
 est power.
 | Whether it is settled or not one can find from the results of the Pur-
 pie Hurricane-Crim Tide affair at
 Mobile Saturday. However, there is this to be said-a man capable of do- ing any of the phases of back work is listed in 'Bama's squad of backs. and Hubert alone stands out as sure to start any game. It now looks as | if MacCartee, Barnes and Brown will begin with Hubert, but Gillis and Baty are just as apt to start.
 It is almost as good line to face Tech this year as the one that faced he Ia Sf
 intact. Propst returns at center Compton and Buckler are at tackle, and while Compton does not have the power that Hovater had, Buckler is,
 in the opinion of many, just as good
 as Cooper was. Jones and Camp are
 guards from last years freshman n team that are looking better in ev- cry game. And for reserves. Ala bama has Langhorne, Whitaker, Hudson, Ennis. Martin and others.
 Georgia Tech has been through a difficult schedule, one that has taxed l the very last ounce of strength. Flor
 ida is the only southern team that left Grant field undefeated. and Tech managed to stave off defeat | by scoring a touchdown after the | Gators had led them quite long 1 period. Georgetown and V. M. l.. | both good teams, were defeated by Tech. In each game the winner was 1 forced to como from behind to get her victory.
 No one at the Capstone Is predict 1 victory for the Tidesmen and no noe is predicting victory for Tech. They | don't predict this year at the Cap
 stone, for while everyone is proud
 of the work of the Tidesmen this | season, the students realize that in | Tech Alabama will face one of the
 hardest foes of the year, as hard as will be played this year. And the old superstition about Grant Field and Tech is hanging around slightly, but the Tidesmen bother none about 1t | Secret practice all the week is due Crimson on Denny field. Coach Wade
 is expected to start in early Monday | for the Tech game, for he Is going
 afternoon in prepping his Crinsons to throw his all in that fray. It is going to be the hardest week O.
 practice undergone by the Tide, and there's not a man that won't be glad
 when quits" in the afternoon is announced.
 Fully 500 students from the Cap stone will be at Grant field when the whistle starts the game. The band is being sent over, and the three cheer leaders are on their way. A large delegation from Tuscaloosa is
 making the trip, while it Is known
 that parties from all over the state
 will journey to Tech. It is Let's get Tech" at the Capstone, and everyone is hoping that Tech is got ten. Everyone talks about Tech
 everyone seems to have a defeat of Tech held in their opinion as the | greatest performance an Alabama team could do, so everyone wants tC | go. Whether or not special train | will be run from the Capstone Is not
 known, but arrangements are now | being made to have this done.