The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-22
COPE TO SEND VETERAN TEAM ON FIELD AGAINST CADETS AT THREE O'CLOCK
Birmingham's First Football Season Pits Ancient Grid iron Foes Against Each Other
THE LINEUP


 Howard-she1ton, left end; Dandy, left tackle; Wells, left guard Brindley, center; Stubbs, right guard ; Garfield, right tackle; Yarbrough right end; Stevens, quarterback; ; White, left halfback; Gaylord, right halfback; Mccarthy, fullback.
 Marion-Coffman left end; Ingram. left tackle; Murphree. left guard; i; Goodrich. center; Wilson, right guard; Adams, right tackle; Gilbert, right end; Gilbert, quarterback; Ter rel, left halfback; Wolf, right half back; Samuels, fullback.
 Referee, Streit (Auburn); umpire. Erwin (Drake); head 1inesman, Gill lam (Sewanee).
 Time of game, o'clock.
 Routes to Berry field: Street car, East Lake out First avenue, to Col to College station, then right three blocks. Tidewater, straight to col lege. Automobile: Out First avenue to college station, then right three blocks and turn up private road to the left and straight to Berry field.
 Birmingham 1923 football season officially comes into being Saturday afternoon at o'clock, when the Bull dogs of Howard college charge the Cadets of Marion institute, in an ef- fort to repulse the invasion of the milltants On Berry field.
 Howard and Marion have drawn the opening assignment, and this afternoon will meet at Berry field, the home of the Bulldogs.
 It will be Birmingham's first game of the gridiron season, and fandom is all popped up to usher the season in amid scenes of enthusiasm and in- terest. Howard college officials have. made arrangements to care for a rec ord opening day crowd Saturday afternoon.
 Berry Field Ready.
 Howard and Marion are ancient foes, and the fact that they have been billed as opponents only adds attractiveness to the opening day feature Last season the Bulldogs and Cadets battled four gruelling quarters to scoreless tie, only one of the long list of close and blood curdling contests the two have played since opening athletic rela- tions.
 Berry field Is prepared to care for that record crowd. A new set of bleachers has been constructed since the opening of school and now the right side of the field is adorned with seats capable Of caring for 1000 people, or slightly more with 8 little crowding.
 It will be a new Berry field that will greet fandom this afternoon. The gridiron has been sodded, and now is padded nicely with luxuriant coat of grass, even though the change of the seasons is darkening that coat of mother earth's toaa brownish hue. Around the field ex- tends a new fence, one of the heavy wire affairs. with steel posts, very substantial and extremely neat look k ing. And then there are the bleach CTS. the seats that add comfort to fandom's trips to Berry field.
 veteran BuIIdogg Outfit.
 It will be a veteran outfit of Bull dogs who charge at the Cadets this afternoon. In all, eight letter men will be among the first II, while the other seven have had experience on previous Bulldog teams.
 The backfield will be an all-veter- an affair, with four letter men start ing the game. Ham stevens of field goal fame will be at quarterback, and Ham states that he is all popped up with 8 new set of tonsils for the signal calling duties. Fred White and Dan Gaylord, end running wratths, will start at the halves, while Marvin Mccarthy, line plunger, will be at the fullback. It will be Stevens, Whites and Me- Carthy's start of their varsity season, but Gaylord will be starting his $ fourth and final season with the Bulldogs.
 Captain Shelton, Toby Stubbs, Hugh Garfield and Bo Brindley are the veterans on the line, while Dendy, Wells and Yarbrough have all played in varsity games for the Bulldogs before.
 Coach Cope will have a large squad in uniform Saturday afternoon, and will probably use many men, but in the main he will give his old men a thorough test, for they are the ones who must face Sewanee a week from today.
 Marion has a light, but nicly ball anced team, reports state, while Coach Wilkie is said to have his usual hard fighting bunch. me Cadets arrived in town yesterday, and today are ready for their game with IQt,11