The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
CRIMSON TIDE
 STARTS SURGE
Twenty-TwO Men On Hand At First Cap-
 stone Practice

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Sept. 4.-Coach Wallace Wade's call for candidates Thursday was responded to by over a score of men and the first surges of the tide rolled out on Denny field. Sixteen eligible men for varsity berths were out for Alabama's initial workout, while six enthusiastic fresh men were on hand, though Coach Bully Vandegraff, tutor of the yearlings, will not put the rats through their first drill until next Tuesday.
 Nevertheless, Bully was on hand to look over the half dozen ambitious youngsters who have already shown up and he is getting ready to turn out an- other great freshman team with con stellation of high school stars lined up for this season which will even exceed that of last year.
 As for Coach Wallace Wade's early season training menu it was not exactly crip. The only thing soft on the field Thursday afternoon was the luxuriant carpet of grass and possibly one or two overweight men.
 As for the latter, under the schedule mapped out by Wade, they will soon lose the quality of softness.
 The candidates were given an intro duetion to the dummy on their first day. This is one of the lines of en- deavor on a football field which will soon make soft men hard. The squad was put to blocking the dummy and with the urging of the coach to Init him hard" the stuffed gentleman was getting quite few stiff blows and knocks as hefty men hurled their bod ies into him. Passing and lodging also occupied the attention of the would-be tidesman for quite time.
 "Fish" Salmon and Hoyt Winslett were hurling the spirals down the field while the squad snagged them out of the ozone.
 Rosie Looks Good.
 At picking the oval out of the air there was none more adept than Dave Rosenfeld, freshman quarter of last season. He looks good for place on the varsity this season as he is an ex- ceedingly active man on the field and can move around with speed.
 Coach Russ Cohen had a squad of linemen charging dow, the field, while Coach Wade also sent the men through. some drilling at blocking each other. The candidates were kept at it from 8 80 until G.. and. were given orders to report Friday morning at g 80 for drilling until 12. Such is the schedule mapped out by Coach Wade.
 M ok Brown, versatile football ath- lete, has been on hand since Monday and has been out on the field every day training his kicking toe. He has been getting off some nice spirals of 60 and 70 yards. However, Mack brought along a freshman brother who threatens to supplant him next season. He is also kicker and is a good broken field runner. He goes under the ap- pellation of "Red,' natural cognomen, when one views his head of sandy hair. He played at Dothan.
 Buckler, Hubert, Camp, Mack Brown and Whitaker were the letter men out for practice Thursday, while Country" Oliver has arrived at the capstone, though he was not on the field, and Jack LanghOrne, alternate captain, checked in late Thursday afternoon. Langhorne has been doing hard work this summer and says he is ready to get in and battle with the best of them.
 Hinton, Ennis, Padgett, Johnson and Hussey of the reserve team, and Wins lett, Rosenfeld, Holmes, Picard, Col Her and Walls of the freshman team were on the field.
 The freshmen who have already shown up are Dick Hammer, Eayette high star; Terry Griffin, who played with Jacksonville Aggies last year "Pancho" Villa, and Peebles of Rose bud; Tex "Red" Brown of. Dothan, and McKinsey of Bay Minette. Melvin Vines, Alliance highs three letter star, checked in Thursday night.