The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-06
BAMA ALREADY
 HARD AT WORK Bill Buckler Looks Ready
 To Start This Year |
By THE SPORTING EDITOR

UNIVERSITY, Ala.,sSept. 5.-With his squad sweiied by slate arrivals, Coach Wallace Wade sent the Alabama Crimsons through another hard day of drilling here Friday afternoon. 4 two hour morning session was also staged in which the men were given plenty of work at tackling and blocking the dummy and passing. :
 At the afternoon session Wade staged light scrimmage in defensive drill on forward passes and gave the men point CTS ofi side-stepping and, running with the ball. Twenty-seven varsity candi- dates were on Denny field, while seven or eight freshmen who arrived early were over across the campus taking preliminary drill from CoAch Bully Van degraff. The rats, however, are not to officially, open their grid training until next Tuesday.
 Among the stars who arrived in time for practice Friday are Ben Hudson, McClintock and ''Red" Barnes of the squad of letter men. Barnes, however, was not able to do any work due to recent operation for appendicitis and it is figured that itinay be couple of weeks or more before he will be in condition to get ddwn to work. Cald- well of the freshns6n team last season, Martin also of the Yfrashmen and Me Queen of the same bunch arrived along with "Hootney" Newton, brother of Tom Newton. Young Newton played end on the rat eleven last season and is out to fill the shoes of his brother this year. Lanier, scrub of last year, also was on the field at work.
 Country Oliver, whom Coach Wade plans to convert into a lineman this year, was on hand for his first practice.
 The squad is standing up well under the hard work and aTE seem to be in good condition. Pete Camp arrived in the city, weighinga a mere 2S1 pounds, but he was put to running around the field and under a sun none too cool he should get back down to his playing weight, around 210, by the time of the first game.
 Buckler Big Ace
 Bill Buckler, hefty inesman, has been doing a great amount of place kicking during the early practices and also working on the kickoff. He is get fling A great amount ,sof accuracy in his place kicks and is sending his kick offs over the goal line. It is figured that Buckler will make the Tide one of it's greatest stars this season and ho is in excellent condition, from all appearances.
 At side-stepping and getting down the field Mack Brown has lost none oI his ability, to do shifty travelling and he was eluding tacklers nicely Friday: Dave ROsenfeld also is making good showing as broken field runner. The other backfield men were getting some good pointers on footwork and on run ming plays this year the Tide should be. unusually adept.
 Coach Wade stated that he expected to have the squad in shape for hard scrimmage one week from Saturday. With the menu of work he is dishing out to them the candidates should re- Ispond with unusual quickness to his efforts to get them into shape. With two practice sessions of two hours each daily and stiff work at both periods it should not be long until a tough squad of men do battle on the scrim- mage field.
 Coach Russ Cohen had the linemen doing their stuff at blocking Friday aft ernoon, while Wade worked good deal with the backffeld men. The squad is almost complete now, with three or four more men to come in. With the coming of next week the backs should be prac- tically filled up and tho hard grind for Q tough scheduled will he under way in dead earnest. X
 Student Manager Jess, Long was busy all Wednesday and Thursday dish ing out uniforms to newcomers and with the influx of freshmen next week the practice fields will bc alive with men.