The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
WILDCATS, COLONIES
 ON PAR THIS SEASON
Chief Myers Faces Big Problem At Centre;
 Ofstie Highly Touted Coach

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 LEXINGTON, Ky, Aug. 9.-Ar- other month and the battle for gridi- iron supremacy in Kentucky will be on .-':.iss year. as for the last i've or SIX the University of Kentucky and Gen Ire college eleyens will occupy the spot light.
 Which will be victorious--the Uni verkity of Kentucky with It's new coacn, Fred J. Murphy, or Centre with Cnief Myers back at the helm after Deing away several years while Uncle Charhe Moran led the mighty Praying Colo nels from the little town of Danviilie to a place of national fenown.
 For the first time since 1917 the Wildcats of Kentucky and the Praying C,olot,els will start the season on prac- ticall;i even terms. Many of Centre s star athletes have left school, some of them have graduated, others have mere ly dropped out for semester and VIII ! t,robnbly return for. the 1925 season. Two Of the most prominent backfieid men Centre has lost in this manner- Hudxins and Spurlock--both of them considered among the best ground gain CTS in the south.
 Kentucky. too, has lost some of her star performers, notably the captain of her 1923 team, Dell Ramsey, Givens, Martin, Jimmy Cammack, Jim Russell and Stevenson. Members of the fresh- man squad of last year are expected to fill the gaps caused by their ab- sence, however, and in addition Coach Murphy will have Tiny Montgomery, a linesman who was injured in the early stages of the 1928 campaign, andS Bill Mcfarland. Both of them are linemen. Mcfarland and Montgomery tip the scales in the neighborhood of ZzO pounds and are more than SIX feet tall.
 Open Same Day
 Centre and Kentucky are scheduled to open hostilities the same day, Octo- Der 4, when Centre will entertain the Valparaiso eleven, coached by Shadoan' a former member of the Centre eleven, and the Wildcats will have as their guests the University of Louisville team.
 chances that his men will suffer iTl- juries this year which 80 handieappea the eleven last season, and will tnke them ,on a ten-iay camp on the Ken lucky river about the first of SeDtem- Der to harden up and get ready for the opening of the season. He will also initiate them into the secrets of the system he is planning to use, which will differ considerably from that used in the past on Kentucky fields.
 a Kentucly's prospects for a winning eleven are brighter this season than for the last few years. Practically all of the men have had years experi- ence or the varsity, while number of freshmen showed their worth suf- ficiently during their short 1923 sched- ule to warrant the prediction that the opening game with the University of Louisville will see number of them in the lineup. Frank Smith, freshman fuilback, is one who will give some of the halfbacks q hard fight for their positions, and will probably be used as ullderstudy for Captain Curtis Sanders. He has no chance of busting Sanders from his position as fullback, for the sturdy fe0-pouud star is considered one Of the best defensive backs in the south and has featured the play of the Uniersity of Kentucky eleven in the years he has played with it.
 Needs Quarterback
 The biggest problem facing Coach Murphy is the development of q center and q quarterback Kentucky has needed both q center and n quarterback since the days when Doc Rodes reigned supreme in his position as the pilot of the Wildcat mdchine shortly before the entry of the United States into the World war. Gregg, who called the signals last year, was out of the game for a considerable time with injuries,