The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-06
sGood Road Trip Is Arranged TFor Team This Year And
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se The Howard college basket ball touad will be started on it's train Ing grind Monday afternoon at the Central Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Coach Harris G. Cope arrived back in Bir- mingham during the latter part of the week from Cartersville. Ga. where he spent the Christmas holi- Jays. and has issued . call for can Aidates on the first day of this week
 An attractive schedule has been 1: arranged for the Bulldogs on the VilI be given them to get into shape tor the first game of the season will not be played until January 22 when the Bulldog five clashes with ths Birmingham Athletic club Blues.
 The schedule. complete. follows:
 January 22-B. A. C., here.
 January 2s-Jacksonville State . Normal. here.
 February s-B. A. C.. here.
 February s-Trinity of Durham, N. c. here.
 February 11-Fort Benning, at Fort Benning. Ga
 February 13-Mercer, at Macon, Gsorgia-
 February l4-Albany "Y." at AL bany. Ga
 February 15-Naval Air Station. at tRensacoia, Fla. tentative.
 February 1s--Birmingham-S South srn college, here.
 February 22-BirminSham South srn college. here.
 February 25-S. I. A. A tourna- msnt
 In this schedule is included c good road trip that will run for about a week and will carry the locals Fla, However, the game with the Naval Air quintet in Pensacola has not been definitely closed, but Is ex- pected to be scheduled. This trip will be a tough one as the Bulldogs will encounter at least three strong teams in succession. The Mercer Bulldogs always put on a wonderful cage team while Columbus and Al bany are not far behind in ability. B. A. c. s.r,.. 2 f.stuss.. S 2
 The B. A. c. series here is expected eo draw a large crowd. as both teams will have a large following. The fea- will be the Birmingham-South series, Always. no matter what the srort. rivalry Is keen between these two colleges and this year 1t would appear, from advance dope and ma terial, the two should be very evenly matched and the series should De close. In the event that the first two game will be played after the return played to decide the series Thie game will be played afeer the return from the Southern 1ntercoilesiate Athletic association championship tournament.
 be a good one, as the North Carolina institution is expected to turn out a strong quintet. The visiting team will tour this part of the south and stop off here for a couple games. one with the B. A c. also.
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 Little can be calculated as to the material available for the Bulldog machine. The rule barring freshmen will knock the Howard Quint out of the services of several stars. fancey Senn, crack forward of the state championship Simpson school five Of 1923, will be one of the stars who VIII be hit by the rule.
 Toby Stubbs, veteran center. is the cnly varsity man back from the last tean. turned out by Howard three years ago. Ham Stevens Is good snan for the auint. and Dan Gaylord is also expected to be one of the fore- most, if an injured wrist does not hold him out of play There are a number of high school stars eligible. and 1t will be from new material that Coach Cope will draft his five.
 we will have a pretty fair sched. uie and a well-dressed team." said Coach Cope Saturday afternoon. "but as for coaching, fear they will be aaseking." However, those who know Coach Cope know that the team will not suffer from inferior coaching. and if relentless driving and long practice sessions can develop a team, then Howard will be well represented Sn basketball this season.