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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
STUDENTS CHEER AS
TIDE WORKS FOR GAME
Georgia Scribes Pick Bulldogs To Beat Alabama
Here Thanksgiving Day

gymnasium at night that they are be-
hind the team to a man and all intend
being in the stands when the game
starts.
Alabama will seek to defeat Gergia,
if such is possible, and be called South
ern Conference champions. She has de-
feated four conference teams this season
and lost to none. Her sole defeat in
eight games played already was the 40
disaster suffered at the hands of Cen
ire college. This prevents Alabama
from having a chance at the southern
championship but did not mar her claim
at the conference title.
Tide Off Wednesday
The Tidesmen will leave the Capstone
Wednesday afternoon after another
light workout that day. The student
body will leave the same afternoon and
on speacal train the next morning
Dozens of automobiles from Tuscaloosa
will also make the trip to the Magic
City for the game. 1t is believed that
delegation of at least 5000 will be
present from Tuscaloosa and the uni
versity.
Alabama's freshman team returned
to the Capstone Saturday night, fol-
lowing their fifth victory of the year
at Chattanooga against the Chatta-
nooga freshman eleven. The season
closed for the rats without their hav-
ing suffered a defeat, the second sue
cessive season unblotted by a defeat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
PITT WINNER OF
CROSS COUNTRY

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Pittsburg
university sprang a sensational upset
today by capturing the intercollegiate
varsity cross-country team champion
ship in a race which individual honors
went to MAC" Smith, of Yale. Pitts
burg finished with score of 81
points, while Harvard was second with
rs points and Syracuse, two-time cham
pion and the favorite, was secoid with
81 points.
''The dark horse" Pittsburg team.
scoring its first victory since joining
the intercollegiate amateur athletic as
ISOLATION of America, was led by c..
Lies, who finished fourth in the six
mile chase over the Van Cortlandt park
course. His teammates, in the order of
their finish, all inside the first 80, were
Corbett, Schroedell, Howell and Kerr.
The complete and official varsity
team scores:
Pittsburg, 81; Harvard. 70; SYRIA
cuse, 50; Yale, III; Maine, 1876; Co
lumbia, 157; Cornell, 10; Dartmouth,
1888; Princeton, 229; Nit, 254; Rut-
gers, 266; Georgetown, 26S; Pennsyl-
vania, 364; College of the city of New
York, 423.
Tom Keane's Syracuse yearlings won
the freshman team event, scoring 3S
points by placing five men within the
first IA to finish. Yale was second
with 81 points, with Nit third with
102 points.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
Knute Rockne Dishes Out
His Ideas On What's What

student body, the alumni, and the
men on the team"
Northwestern, he said, gave Notre
Dame its hardest fight of the year.
Northwestern" he declared, was
as fine defensive team as we have met
this year. Its tactics were good, it's de-
tense was good. When the game was
over l was glad to hear the whistle"
Football in the past ten years has
become exhilirating, he said. Because
the players are no longer taught that
they must hate their rivals. Now, he
said, there is respect for the opponent
and not much boasting in victory.
Too Much Social Life
'There's little too much of social
life in our colleges" Coach Dockne de-
cIared. "the big thing that boy comes
to college for is character building.
Foundation of character, as President
Lowell of Harvard says, is physical
strength, yet we have in our colleges to.
day too many boys who do not take any
special exercise except a fox trot. They
regard it as the highest honor to get on
the committee that hires the orchestra
for the prom. You see them in the
hotels, in the Hobbies. Some use rouge.
This is not a Joke"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
LACEY TRAINING
FOR ACHILLES
Many Fans Believe Local
Boy Can Throw
Greek

Tom Lacey, local grappler, and Jack
Achilles, the claimant of the worlds
Greek wrestling title for welerweights,
have gone into training for their match
Friday night at the Greek club, up
stairs at Twentieth street and Fourth
avenue.
The Greek titleholder is working out
daily at the Central Y. NJ. G. A., while
Lacey is getting into trim at the Ath-
letic club. Lacey has made good
record for himself in local bouts and
is one of the best wrestlers in this Sec
ton. This will be his first chance to
get a shot at top-notcher and fans
are doing much specializing on his
chances with the invader.
In, addition to the main bout Kid
Lott, a tough local young mat artist,
will take on Pappas, another Greek
wrestler of reputation, in preliminary
bout, while Bogie Saab and Spark Plug
will also tie up in a bout.
The main bout will be wrestled to a
finish and there will be no question as
to which of the two men is the better
when the contest is over. The match
is expected to draw large gathering
of fans, as the local boy has many back
ers here who believe he can show up
the claimer of the Greek title.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
JOHN HARVARD
is DISSATISFIED

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. "a
General dissatisfaction over the miser-
able showing Harvard made on the grid
iron this season is expressed on the
campus and in the halls here. 1t is
admitted that Harvard has just passed
through her worst season and that some
thing should be done about it.
The methods suggested for bring
ing about an improvement included ev-
erything from the discharge of the en-
tire coaching staff to the RELOCATION of
all the varsity players to the scrubs.
Critics claim that the team was not
equipped with the right kind of play
ers and was even given bad instruction
in the execution of fumbles. The Harv-
ard backs, especially Jake Stafford, the
quarterback, are PANIED for attempting
to catch slippery, muddy punted balls
instead of allowing them to roll dead
as the Yale backs did.
1t is also claimed that Harvard be-
came conservative behind a six point
lead over Yale and started on the de-
fensive in the second half instead of
taking the chances and continuing on a
wild offensive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
WILL
WELCOME DRAKE
Visiting Gridders Will Be
deliberately Enter
tanned

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Nov. "a
Especial. 1.-The Drake university foot.
ball eleven is slated to arrive in Gator
town Wednesday night at 6 10 O'Clock
to take part in the grid attraction OF
the University of Florida homecoming
celebration on Thanksgiving afternoon
Advance reports place the number in
the Drake party as "a, including play.
ers, coaches and managers.
Monday afternoon a welcoming com.
mittee to receive the Drake aggregat ton
composed of some fifty odd students Sc
lected from the various fraternities on
the Gator campus met and laid plans
for a suitable reception when the Drake
special pulls into Gainesville Wednes-
day. The committee was headed by
Lem Woods of Tampa.
The entire Gator student body led by
the famous Gator 55-piece band will
march down to the station for the pur-
pose of giving the Westerners a rousing
welcome. The students have been prac-
ticing on the Drake yells and the band
has learned the Drake school songs for
the occasion.
Plan Great Time
1t is planned to show the Des Moines
fellows such a time that they will want
to stay in the land of flowers and SUM-
shine. An auto parade composed of
cars loaded with the Drake players will
tour the campus Thursday morning in
order that the invaders might see some
thing of the University of Florida.
A committee has been appointed to
secure gobs and gobs of oranges and
other Florida fruits to place in the
Drake football rooms at the White
House hotel. Also the management of
the hotel has been requested to deco
rate the hotel from top to bottom in
the Drake colors of blue and white. In
vitations from the II booked dances on
will be turned over to the captain upon
over after the game. 1t is likely that
to take in the Silver Springs sights.
However, advance information indicates
that the Drake football aggregation will
leave 'Gatortown early Friday morning
and will proceed direct to Washington.
From there they will go to New York
Have Light Workout
The Gator gridders spent rather
light afternoon in their Mondays
workout. Coach VanFleet desires that
his players rest up and accordingly only
the highest exhibition of practicing was
on the program. The Florida eleven is
in fairly good condition, having come
out of the tussle with the Mississippi
Aggies with only a few minor injuries.
Spec Lightsey, the scintillating left end
of the fighting Gator machine, was
seen limping Monday but doctors pro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
WELLS WINNER
BY k. O. ROUTE

LONDON, Nov. 24.-Londoners
dropped and smashed approximately
two million tea-cups in their astonish-
ment Monday afternoon upon hearing
that Bombardier Wells, the most
knocked-out fighter in the world, had
won fight, and by a knockout, at that
For a decade, Great Britain had been
seeking a fighter worse than Wells. Joe
Beckett was pretty terrible and showed
promise of becoming worse than the hor-
izontal Bomby, but Wells lost easily
to Beckett.
Since that time no fighter appeared
who could even challenge Wells for the
horizontal championship until Guards
man Penwill flopped into public view
Monday afternoon. The Guardsman,
magnificent lumber, went down and
out in the second round and the result
ant crash of dropped tea-cups was remi-
niscent of an old fashioned Zeppelin
raid upon the metropolis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
SABRES TO PLAY !
ADMISSION TEAM.
Teams Play Polo At Rob-
erts Field Thursday
Morning

When the Birmingham Sabres tangle
with the Admission polo quartet at. Rob
erts field Thanksgiving morning at 10
o'clock, one of the best polo matches
ever played in the Magic City will
likely take place. The two teams will
again take the field Saturday afternoon
for second engagement.
During the past summer, when the
Sabres were in camp in Admission, al
though the two teams never did meet
the comparative scores with several
combinations which both played gives
them a rating practically on a par, and
some interesting polo is being expected
by local enthusiasts.
The Sabres have been practicing
overtime during the past two weeks for
the first big match of the year, and
Captain Carter, field captain of the
local quartet, stated Monday night that
his team would be in excellent shape
and in the finest playing trim of the
year Thanksgiving morn. The addi-
ton of several new ponies to the local
contingent has greatly increased their
ability on the playing field, as the
ponies are extremely important cogs in
a polo machine. The additional ponies
will prove big assets to the Sabres in
their playing, according to Captain
Carter.
Admission Strong.
The Admission team is composed of
officers at Camp Mcclellan and civil
lians in Admission, and the quartet was
one of the best in camp during the sum-
mer months, when so many good army
teams played at Mcclellan.
The Governors Horse Guards, of At
lanta, defeated the Admission team 4 to
0 in a match last summer, while the
same excellent quartet were able to
win from the Birmingham Sabres by
exactly the same score. The Sabres, as
now, were playing in fine form last
summer, holding victories over the New
Orleans Polo association and the
Louisiana National guard as well as a
tie with the Sixth Cavalry.
The lineup for the Sabres for
Thursday mornings battle has been an
nounced as follows: Captain Wal
thour, No. 1; Captain Carter co., No.
2; Lieutenant Smith, No. 3; Sergt.
Coley, No. 4. Alternates will be Sergt
Ely, Lieut.. Coleman, Major Robertson
and Captain Duncan. Captain Hurt.
one of the regulars on the team, will be
out of town Thursday, but will be back
to play in Saturdays game, and will
take No. 2, Captain Carter going to
No. 8.
The officials will be: Referee, Major
Murphy; umpire, Captain Carroll;
timekeepers, Captains James and Ora
ham; scorer, Captain Pollard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
KOPPISCH WILL.
PLAY LAST TILT
Has Been Spirit And Fibre Of
COlumbia's Eleven

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Walter Kop-
pisch, the one cleaning, glinting star
of Columbia university's football team
and the only player ever elected captain
Of university team three times, will
dig in, his cleats, hump his back and
hit the line for the last time Thursday
afternoon when Columbia plays SYRIA
cuse university in New York. Koppisch
was the spirit and the fibre Of Column
bias team in the dismal year preceding
Percy Haughton's appearance as coach
of the team. And in his first year as
coach, Haughton found that Koppisch
was the one first-class football player
of the squad. This season when the
Haughton system began to show re-
suits in the development of team
work and other individual players, Kop-
pisch still remained the spear-head of
Columbia's attack. The death of Haugh-
ton and the farewell of Koppisch will
leave Columbia in an unhappy plight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
GAMES MAY Be
POSITION ED
Big Three Contest May
Be Held Up In
Future

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. "a
Suggestions advanced in the last that
big Three" championship games be
postponed in the future in the event
of such terrible conditions as caused
the Harvard-Yale game last year and
this year to be played in driving rain
storms have met with little favor at
Yale.
Among some of the Yale undergrad
yates the proposition was launched off
as being a SISSY stint and it was
pointed out that teams willing to play
under such terrible conditions were
showing gameness that makes football
what it is.
The claim that it was not fair to
ticket purchasers to make them take
a wetitng to the skin was not accepted,
as it was pointed out that fifty-five
thousand fans sat all through the rain
in Cambridge last year for the game and
that seventy-five thousand braved pneu-
monia to see the game this year.
Several Games
Several games were called off in the
east last Saturday on account of bad
weather but it was argued that the
management Of those games did not
have to consider eight thousand ticket
holders who could not remain over two
days to see postponed game or who
would not care about taking a chance
on the same kind of day week later.
The Yale campus is jubilant at the
victory over Harvard which gave the
team Its second successive ''big three"
championship but some dissatisfaction
was voiced against the weather condi-
tons which made II impossible for Yale
to score the two Overwhelming victories
over Harvard that had been expected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Nov. a.
Especial. )-Alabamas grid eleven is
going through her last three days of
practice here at Denny Field before
they end the 1924 grid season against
Georgia on Thanksgiving Day in Biz
mingham.
The Tidesmen are working out before
the entire student body at Denny Field,
and frequent yells under the direction
of cheer leaders make them work all the
harder. Slight injuries prevail in the
camp of the Crimsons but it is hoped
that these injuries will not prevent any
of the Crimsons from starting against
Georgia if Coach Wade wishes to start
them.
The Tidesmen took a light workout
Monday afternoon and were scheduled
for similar workouts again Tuesday
and Wednesday before they depart for
the Magic City for their final engage
nient. Knowing that every man will
b6 needed against Georgia, no chance
Of injuring any is being taken at the
Gpstone.
Georgia Favorite
Despite the fact that she will enter
the game picked to lose to Georgia by
MANY scribes, Alabama intends fighting
for the victor's spoils from the time the
game starts until it is over and decided.
The student body are showing by daily
pep meetings at the field and at the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
ST. PAUL CLUB
!: WILL BE SOLD

!: ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 24.-W. P.
Macmiking, secretary of the st. Paul
baseball club for the past ten years, is
one of the leaders in the thre geroups
bidding for the local franchise of the
American Association, it was learned
today.
Identity of the other two groups was
still mystery today, although it was
known one was trying to interest Wal
ter Johnson, the pitcher, to buy a
share in the team and become its man
ager.
1t was said that Macmikings group
was the most likely party to become
new owners of the Saints, although
John w. Norton, the present owner, re-
fused to confirm this report
In the event that Macmiking gets
control, Nick Allen will remain as man
ager.
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:CHICAGO, Nov. 24-Football to-
day, while a question of physical con-
dstion and strength, is yet more and
more a contest of wits, Knute X.
Hockne, coach of Notre Dame, declared
IN an address today before the city club.
The team that thinks the fastest gets
the breaks and wins in nip and tuck
contest, he said.
There is difference in tactics be-
tween eastern and western football, he
said, declaring that western teams are
rpt addicts to one play as are eastern
cietens. Princeton, he said is the one
eastern team that does not use play.
.:"There is lot of talk about adver-
Using and the psychology of confidence
in football the Notre Dame mentor
said. Toll, energy, industry, hard
work-that's what we give the boys in
football. The thing boys, particularly
boys from wealthy families learn in
football, is the necessity of hard work.
Not Too Much Success
Il don't believe too much success is
good. like to see football team
Lose game now and then one game n
season. | hope next fall we get licked
Il. couple of times. 1t is good for the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
HEYDLER WILL
PROBABLY STICK
Moguls Likely To Reflect
National League
President

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Although he
accidentally romped on a few influen-
tial bunions when the recent Giants
bribery case was being hushed-up just
before the world series, John Heydler,
president of the National league, prob
ably will hold his job for another year.
Heydler is up for reelection at the an
nual meeting of the league here on
December 8.
The Giants are understood to be cool
toward Heydler because he turned the
Dolan- o. Connell-Sands bribery case
over to Judge Lands as soon as the
matter was reported to him, without
saying anything about the matter to
Charley Stoneham, chief owner of the
Giants. Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, wanted to investi-
gate several other shady occurrences in
the National league while the Giants
scandal was in the air but was hushed
up so rudely that he quit the world
series in Washington after the first
game and returned to Pittsburgh.
Dreyfuss Sighted
Dreyfuss thought he should have been
allowed to speak his piece in public
at that time and baseball men say he
had a row with, Heydler who shrinks
from scandal and loves harmony. 4.
The six other National league clubs,
however, are believed to have Heydler
as president. He has always been a
harmless executive with no very agrees
siYe ideas and his public pronounce
ments have been rubber stamped copies
of all the innocuos bromides concern
ing the national game" and "the good
of the sport"
The National league meeting might
possibly develop into a washday for the
laundering of the old mystery of the
late season series between the Pirates
and Giants in 1921 when the Pirates
suddenly went to pieces and lost the
pennant to the Giants. But the posi-
bility of remote one as the policy Of
baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
LOMBARD TEAM
INVADES SOUTH
Will Play Tennessee And Cen
tcnary On Journey

GALESBURG, ILL.,, Nov. A.-Twen-
ty-three members of Lombard college
football squad will leave tomorrow for
an invasion of southern football camps,
it was announced today by President
J. NJ. Tilden. Professor Winter, ath-
letic committee chairman, will accom-
pany the squad and conduct classes
while the men are enroute.
The University of Tennessee Medical
school will be Lombard's first opponents
on Thanksgiving day at Memphis. They
will then timber up in New Orleans
preparatory to meeting Bo McMillan's
Centenary college team at Shreveport,
La, December 4.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
ZUPPKE SIGNS
LONG CONTRACT

CAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Nov. 24-Bob
Zuppke has renewed his contract as
Illinois football coach for long term
of years. George Huff, director of ply
steal welfare, announced tonight. No
statement was made as to the salary
the coach will receive under the new
arrangement but the contract carries
with it a comfortable income, it is
known.
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STANFORD TO
MEET NOTRE
DAME ELEVEN

PASADENA, Cal, Nov. "a
The Stanford university football
team has been chosen to meet the
eleven of Notre Dame here New
Years Day, according to a semi
official announcement from Tourna-
ment of Roses circles here today.
The official announcement will be
made right away, it was said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
STANFORD WILL
PUT UP CLAIM

PALO ALTO, Cal, Nov. 24.-Stan-
ford will claim the football champion
ship of the Pacific coast conference,
Paul Davis, graduate manager of the
university, said today.
I'VE beat Oregon and Oregon de-
feated Washington" Davis explained.
1.-The fact that California and Washing
ton battled to tie gives us an edge.
We didn't lose game and neither did
California. But we have only one tie
chalked up against us, the California
game Saturday, while California has
two"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
WHITE SOX SIGN
UP TWO ROCKIES

CHICAGO. Nov. 24-The Chicago
White Sox today signed two recruits,
Catcher Schauffel of the Waterbury,
Conn, Eastern league, and Shortstop
Schmehl of the Hartford club of the
same league for the 1925 season.
Schauffel's playing was an important
factor in winning the Eastern league
for Waterbury last
.eapn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25

the annual homecoming celebration for
the Gator institution. The Drake
eleven, twenty-five strong, is already
enroute and will arrive here Tuesday
at noon for a short stop-over. They
will reach Gainesville Tuesday night.
Officials at the university state re-
quests for tickets is increasing daily.
Fleming field accommodates 10000
persons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
FLEMING FIELD
WILL BE TAXED

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Nov. "a
Fleming Field, in Gainesville, will be
taxed to its capacity Thanksgiving day,
when the football elevens of Drake uni
versity, from Des Moines, Iowa, and
the University of Florida grapple in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
PLAY EXHIBITION GAME.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov 24.-
An exhibition baseball game will be
played here March %, between the New
York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers, according to an announcement to-
day. Both teams will do their spring
training in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
GRID PLAYER DIES

WINFIELD, Kan, Nov. 24.-Edi-
son Ogrosky, football, basketball and
track star at Southwestern college, died
tonight from an injury received in the
Bethany-Southwestern football game
last Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-25
INDIVIDUAL WINNER.

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-McCauley
L. Smith, of Yale, was thwe individual
winner of the varsity cross-country
race at Van Cortlandt park today. The
time for the six miles was 81 minutes,
"a seconds.
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nounce that he will be ready to don
the toys for Fiorida's biggest intersec-
tional grid game in history.