The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
AUBURN HOLDS
 BIG SCRIMMAGE Hagood, Freshman Full back Last Year, Looks
 Mighty Good

AUBURN, Ala, Sept. 15.--(Special.) The second weeks training of the Au- burn grid team, was brought to a close Saturday afternoon with the first scrimmage of the season, which lasted for nearly an hour and half. Report ing early the football aspirants. went through a rather lengthy formation and signal drill in driving downpour of rain, after which the first clash of the season was staged by two teams made up of the players now reporting. One squad headed by Captain Fats Lawerence, at center, consisted of John son and McFadden, guards, English and Huckabe, tackles, Market and Moulton ends; Crane, quarter, Hagood and Turner, halves, and Reese, fullback. While Captain Lawerence and his squad chose the defensive, another team consisting of Robinson, center, Self and Brice, guards, Harkins and Sitz, tackles. Spinks and Pruitt, ends, Peterson, quarter, Slater and Harrison, halves, and Greene, fullback, took the oval after the kickoff.
 "Dutch" Slater was for the first try with the ball for the season and made a slight gain over guard. After several attempts into the line by the backs a pass was tried only to intercepted by Lawerence whose outfit soon fumbled and was recovered by the opposing team. Hard plunging by the backfield put the ball within striking distance to be carried over by "Buckshot" Will Hams, who had replaced Slater, for the first touchdown of the 1924 season. later in the afternoon Hagood evened the score when he found his way across the goal line on long buck. One successful pass, Green to Peterson, for 10 yards consisted the second and last aerial effort of the afternoon.
 While all the backs who got into the fracas showed up well for the first time at the scrimmage work of the season, Hagood, at full, where he worked on the freshman team last year, gained more ground and prob ably was the outstanding performer of lhe back division. He was one of the few who was permitted to go the whole scrimmage, number of the others be- ing substituted as the workout pro gressed. Williams, Slater, Turner and Green made good gains.
 In the line it was Fats Lawerence, English, McFadden, Brice and Sitz, who seemed to make a major portion Of the tackles. Most of the plays were made from mass formations and were aimed inside the tackles for practically the whole afternoon.
 Saturday night the annual College Night exercises were conducted with what Is thought to be the largest stu dent assemblage yet to be held on the campus. This get-to-gether, the first ot the season each year, has previously been conducted in, Langdon Hall but was transferred to the Alumni gym naslum this year on account of in ade- Iuate space. It is understood that the gymnasium will be the scene of the pep meetings in the future, instead of the historic Langdon hall
 Shrot but interesting addresses fea- tured the program. Among those ap- bearing on the program were Turk, president of the student government, Miss Emily Hare. representing the Y. w. c. A. Rev. R. W. Miles, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Bill Wood and Charlie Dudley, former Auburn cheer leaders, Coaches Pitts. Bunker and Hutsell, Dr. B. B. Ross dean of the chemistry department, Major John E. Hatch commandant, Fats" Lawer- ence, and "HardbOy" Fruit, captain and alternate captain, respectively, of the football team. The meeting was held with Coach John E. Pitts, acting as master of ceremonies.
 Following the enthusiastic gather ing, the exercises came to a close after huge torehlight parade, headed by the Auburn band, had been conducted down the main thoroughfare of the college city in which more than 800 students participated.