The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-12
MANY SURPRISES MARK PLAY W SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
Tech Shows Unexpected Strength At Penn State While Auburn And Alabama Also Show Unexpected Re- suits

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 11.-Numerous surprises at home and five defeats one of them a startling near vic- tory-for southern teams away from home marked Dixie's week end grid iron activities.
 2 Georgia Techs work in holding Penn State to- a to score seemed overshadowed by Maryland's feat in holding Yale to a 14 to 0 disadvan- tage through two periods, finally succumbing to the Els by a 16-14 count.
 Washington and Lee, with a per- feet average in Southern conference play, fell completely before the West Virginia Mountaineers 63-0 in 8 third intersectional contest "Bo" McMil- lin's Centenary husktes from Louis jana fought Boston college all the way, lacking clean-cut aggressive ness, lost IA to 0. Rutgers, taking on the fifth southern foe of the day, played with Richmond for 56 to 0 count.
 The University of Georgia chung to and made more impressive its leader ship of the Southern conference by vanquishing Virginia at Athens IS to 0. The Bulldogs coupled cavalier miscuses and fortunate breaks for two touchdowns and victory.
 The invasion of Virginia by North
 
 heel elevens. Virginia Polytechnic, after being held scoreless in the first half by North Carolina State, counted Is points in the final periods, Ruther- ford starting the scoring with field goal in the third. State failed to register a score. Virginia Military institute, though forced to great exertion, finally walked over North Carolina university, to O. with 8 field goal in the opening quarter and & bare touchdown at the close, aided by an aerial furry.
 vnndy Pulls Surprise.
 Vanderbilt provided one of Satur- days surprises by regaining it's stride and tearing up Tennessee uni- versity with a 51-7 score. The Com modores proved impenetrable until the final period, when the Vols reached enemy territory for the first time and plunged and passed to a touchdown.
 Tulane gave Auburn a surprise by holding the PiainSmen to a 6-6 de- cision at Montgomery in their annual scrap. Two touchdowns were ex- pected to mark Auburn's superiority over the Greenies, but the Louis ianans fought with unexpected vigor.
 Alabama's reputation as a team without an offensive was cracked at l luSCdlOCSd WAtA IdC VI llAoNH OPOASN up unexpectedly and subdued Ken lucky, 16-8. The victory gives Ala bama perfect conference average and removes Kentucky from the un- beaten class.
 Mississippi college took the meas ure of Mississippi university 6 to 0, while the Mississippi Aggles eked out a 60 victory over Union university. Loyola and Tennessee medicos played a 6c0releSS game.
 Florida won from Stetson, 27-o. South Carolina, playing Furman. a, non-conference member, lost 23-3. Wake Forest defeated Trinity. 16-6, and the Centre ColonelS smashed Sewanee, 20-6.
 Oglethorpe of Atlanta and Mercer Of Macon participated In another sur prise in Atlanta. After scoring six points in the first few seconds of play by converting kickoff Into a touchdown, Mercer was held off by the Petrels, who succeeded In adding the seventh point to touchown later. Maurer proved the individual star for the Petrels. It was Ogle- thorpe's second victory of the season and Mercers first defeat by team in her class.