The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
DIXIE TEAMS BATTLE
 MANY FOREIGN FOES
Alligators To Bear Brunt Of Intersectional
 Gridiron Clashes This Year

Y When each of the great sectors of the American football universe mar shals its forces for an onslaught at the ranks of the enemy, the eyes of the southern football fan will turn southward to the Peninsula state. There is the ancient city of St. Augustine. reputed to be the father of all of these United States brilliant cities, the Florida University Alligators, under Coach Van Fleet and Coach Tom Se- bring, are toiling away as they pre- pare for their greatest campaign and what now indications forecast as their most brilliant season.
 Still, while the Gators will venture far out of their native swamps, there are several other bold elevens which will do battle with famous foemen on foreign fields. The south will have it's share of the big inter-sectional games this season but many of the teams which have hitherto sought the enemy in stadiums far removed from home have not included them on this falls menu ana -ill confine their activities to southern competition. This is particu- larly true of the Alabama elevens, for Auburn has dropped the Army and University has eliminated Syracuse The longest expedition that either will under take this season is a trip up on the Atlantic seaboard where Alabama plays Furman at Greenville, s. o., while Auburn will bring Clemson home for their battle.
 The dropping of the army from the schedule of Auburn does not mean that the Mule will cease it's attack on elevens ot this section, for the Florida Alliga- tors here stepped in and will try to ride the donkey. Syracuse, off Ala bamas schedule, will not remain inac- tive in the south, for Mercer has un- dertaken the big task of an intersec- tional game of worth for the first time ln it's now promising career and meets Syracuse on her own field in New York.
 Those colorful invasions which Van derbilt was wont to make into the southwest will be carried on by other teams this year. Here again we find in the vanguard of the attack-Flor- ida. The Gators will follow the foot steps of the Commodores and are meet ing the famous Texas Longhorns in Austin on October 26. The trips that produced such battles as thrilled the blood of the fans will be carried on by another and as mighty a foe this sea son, for Florida will have team which at present is given the edge on prac- tically any football organization in the south, with possibly a single excep- tion.
 Florida will not be left alone to bear the brunt of the battle in the south west, for the bold little Sewanee Tiger will travel far from its native noun tain to meet the renowned Coach Dixie K Bibles Texas Aggies at Dallas, October Il.
 Not only in their travels but at home will the comprehensive schedule of the Florida Gators bring them into conflict with foes of other sectors The Dake university eleven from the Mis- souri conference will entrain for Gaines ville, Fla, and meet the Gators there on November 26.
 Georgia Tech will once more try her shift on Notre Dame. The pupils of Knute Rockne treated the engineers from Tech with little respect and no courtesy on their last trip there for they walloped them, 8 to z. This year the walls of men that are gone sound loud and long out of Atlanta and if such is true, it is probable that the Golden Tornado will simmer down to gentle breeze. Tech will also battle Penn State at Atlanta.
 Another of Dixie's greatest intersec- tional games will be the Georgia Yale grid battle. The tenacious Bulldogs, not content with tough southern sched- ule, will encounter it's great eastern brother, the Yale Bulldog, on October II, at New Haven.
 Vanderbilt this year will essay no great intersectional struggle, though the prospects for another of McGugin's great elevens is very bright. Still the Commodores will meet two we'll known foes from other chimes in the Quantieo Marines. who will he in Nashville on