The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
FLORIDA LOSES
 TWO VETERANS
Gators, With A Heavy Schedule To Be Real
 COntenders

Tuesday, September 2, the sleepy little town of Augustine, Fla, reputed as the oldest city in the United States, received real thrill when some 35 or 40 University of Florida football as- pirants arrived to begin their fall grid training under the tutelage of Coach Van Fleet and his assistant, Tom Sebring. For 10 days the Gator grid squad will labor and sweat, preparing for the most strenuous pigskin cam paign ever attempted in the history of the Baby University of the south.
 Coach Van Fleet has intimated that the. first fall sessions will be spent in merely limbering up exercises prepara- tory to the real practice which is scheduled for September 15.
 Throughout the past spring and sum- mer months grid fans in every corner of the Land of Sunshine and Flowers have waxed strong in their praises of what this years Gator eleven will do on the gridiron. Every loyal Floridian is of the belief that their university team will go through the season ulde feated. They point out with pride the Ol ldSl year.
 And glancing at the list of candidates who will report to Coach Van Fleet it seems that their predictions have some real grounds to rest on-something that is more than apt to cause other southern conference eleven to cast doubtful glances southward to the orange blossom region.
 N Powerful Aggregation
 oIo l. regulars from their wonderful 1923 eleven and with a host of strong fresh- men players on hand for try at the team it looks as if Florida will have a most powerful aggregation of grid ders.
 The two players lost to the Florida cause are Captain Robbie" Robinson, aH-southern tackle, and Stewart Pome- roy, fleet-footed halfback of last year. To take care of the vacant tackle posi- tion there are a score of last years freshie linesmen who are fairly strain- ing at the leash to get chance at the place.
 Seven or eight of these huskies weigh more than POO pounds. Among the most prominent 1924 rat linesmen are Boots Davis, Tom Kirk, Stewart, Bennett, and Pope.
 The loss of Pomeroy in the backfield will hardly be noticeable, since there are several strong freshmen to fall back on and Monger Mon" Brumby, bril- liant quarterback of the 1923 University of Georgia freshman eleven, will be eligible for the Gator eleven. Brumby is triple threat man, carrying the ball, passing and kicking equally as well, which indicates that he will be a very valuable man to fit in the Florida ma chine.
 Early reports from over the state indicate that every member of last years varsity eleven will be on hand for the 10 days practice in St. Angus tine together with the most promising of last years rat team.
 "Ark" Newton Back.
 Coach Van Fleet received a wire last week from Captain Ark" Newton, All Southern halfback, which stated that the brilliant Gator back would be on hand for the first practice Ark" lives in Camden. Arkansas, and is the only player on the Florida eleven who does not live in the state of Florida.
 Other varsity men who will be on hand for the first get-together of this season include: "Goldy" Goldstein, All Southern guard :; Ed" Jones, Brumby, Murphree, quarterbacks; Dick Brown, halfback; Middlekauf and Matthews, fullbacks; Spec" Lightsey and Merlin, ends; Sam Cornwall, center, and others.
 The Florida eleven has tremendous task this year for they have a cam paign before them which calls for al- most super-human action when the Gator gridders hook up against such foes as West Point Military Academy, University of Texas, Drake University, Georgia Tech, Mississippi A. and M., Washington and Lee. Mercer, Wake Forest, Stetson and Southern.
 Although enthusiasm is raging strong in Gatorland this array of foes is enough to cause quite a bit of anxiety. Coach Van Fleet we'll knows what he is up against, but he also knows just what it takes to carry a football team victoriously through such a campaign and with this director at the head of the Gator grid activities it would not be surprising if the Univer- sity of Florida did not establish itself at the very top of the college football world.