The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
'GATORS HAVE
 MANY JUMPS Florida Gridders To Trav- el Over 1000 Miles
 This Fall

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. B. The University of Florida grid Alligator is scheduled to break new records dur. ing the 1924 season when the reptilian football eleven hailing from the Land of Orange Blossoms will travel over T.. 900 miles to combat enemy pigskin crews on foreign fields.
 The Gator gridmen open the sea. son October 4th at home where they engage the Stetson College Matters in what should prove nothing more than practice game for theA Orange and Blue warriors.
 The following weekend October II, will see the emi-trophical football ma. chine greased up and packed for it's first trip of the seasons campaign. This trip is carded to Atlanta where the greatest football game of the south will be staged between the Castor eleven and the Yellow Jacket horde of Georgia Tech. Last year the two elevens battled to all tie but this year Florida grid fans are counting on a far different re- suit and the Techites also are looking wise and are reaching into their pockets whenever called upon. The trip to At lanta will cover 320 miles each way for a toal of $40 miles.
 Jumps To Tampa
 The Saturday following the Tech game will once again see the Florida team take the road but this time the Gators will point southward, going to Tampa to engage the Wake Forest eleven in the third battle of the season. Florida evidently is jinxed whenever it appears in the Cigar City for in- yariably the Tampa game is the worst played tilt of the season, however, the Gator outfit should have little trouble in vanquishing the Carolina eleven. Some 336 miles will be covered to Tampa and back. .
 October 25th will witness one of the biggest inter-sectional games of the sea son take place when the Orange Blos- som eleven takes the 1,535 mile jaunt to the land of steers and cow-punchers for the grid battle with the University of Texas team. This game is to be played in Austin and as both aggrega- tions are reputed to be powerful ma chimes, their clash should even deafen the rumblings of conical-hatted revolu- tionalists in Mexico.
 Following the Texas contest the Florida team will take much needed rest, engaging the Southern college eleven in Gainesville in what should be comparatably easy game for the rough Gators. There is a chance that the Methodists of Florida might pull & surprise but preseason dope points to an Orange and Blue victory.
 On November 9th the Gator grid scrappers will grab suit-cases, etc., and head northward for another of the heralded inter-sectional grid contests. playing the Army team at West Point, Last year Florida was placed on the West Point schedule in the light of a practice tilt, the game coming early in October, but the Gastors held the Mill tary gridders to 1-all tie during the first half only going down in the last period of the game to a glorious de- feat by the score of 20 to 0. This year the Army offered the Gators one of her game dates, Florida making the 900 mile trip, during the mid-season.
 Play at Mercer
 The next foe to face FIorida's. foot ball pride will be the Mercer Baptist eleven. The Gastors will travel to Ma con, Ga, some 2S3 miles from Gaines vile for this game which should be a hummer judging from last years per formance of the two elevens.
 The Saturday following, November 22nd, Florida faces team which fought the Gators to a 13 all tie last year. The eleven which kept the Gators from copping the Southern Conference title. and team which again may spell dis aster to the Florida gridmen. The Orange and Blue eleven will journey AT miles to Montgomery, Ala, to play the Mississippi A. and M. team a game which more than likely will prove to be one of the deciding games for the championship of the south.
 Just five days later, the Gators and all Florida will be hosts to a powerful western eleven, Drake University of the Missouri Conference, a team which IS travelling thousands of miles to en- gage the Orange clad worriors of Flor ida. This Turkey Day game will be tlortda1s Home-C Coming game and thousands of fans from every corner of the state are expected to gather in the University city for a real grid cele- bration. This game will attract at- tent1on from all over the country since both teams are real representatives of their particular sections and the re- suits of the meeting should prove an interesting comparison of the strength of the two conferences, Southern and Missouri Valley.
 End With w. and l..
 Ten days later, December 9th. the Gator aggregation of gridmen end what seems at the present time will be their greatest season with a pigskin tilt in Jacksonville with the Generals of Wash lngton and Lee. Both are considered powerful factors in the Southern Con ference and this may be the deciding game for the grid crown of the south. Whether Florida will come through the above list of enemy elevents unde- feated Is not for the writer to predict, It is true that the Florida fans are enthusiastically backing their team to do just that thing but in the path of the football Floridians there are some particularly sharp thorns which may prove to be the undoing of the hopes of the Orange and Blue.
 In fulfilling the above schedule the Florida eleven will travel exactly 7,430 miles, which is some program for col lege football eleven and one which is equalled this year by few, if any, other college teams in the country.