The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-12

The difference between a team which plays 60 minutes and one which plays AS in football contest was computed to a certain degree of accuracy at Rick wood field Tuesday and the margin was found to be 16 points. The Howard college Freshmen used Birmingham Southern college Freshmen as an ex- ample in their mathematical research work in a game which ended, Howard ] 22, mingham-Southern o. ! The first annual Bulldog Panther Frosh battle had hardly gotten under way until Captain Billy Bancroft, the flashy Crimson quarter, had gone over for a pair of touchdowns and kicked a field goal from the 25-yard line. The Panther Rats did not know what it was all about until after the first quarter, but in the last three periods ] the Gold and Black yearlings clearly l outplayed the Crimson crew. Eleven first downs to three ordinarily brings 1 victory to the gainer of the Il but not so in this contest. The difference here only represented wasted energy after squandered chances.
 The opening page of the history of the to-be annual contests will be an uninspiring one for future genera tions at Birmingham-Souther and from the very first kickoff of the game, the poor play of the Panther Rats was a glaring feature and until they finally found their stride, the pace they set was from worse to worst.
 Howard Starts Great
 A clever trick on the kick off, an onside kick which was intended for the covering body of the Panther end man, went slightly astray and Howard husky fell on the ball on Towards 36-yard line. Buckner, who was play ing center in the place of Lazenby, out with an injured hand, passed the ball back over Childs' head to Birmingham Southern's 10-yard line and English recovered. From the 1O-yard line Ban croft and Anderson tried the line un- successfully and then Bancroft drop kicked the goal for point-after-touch- down.
 Bancroft kicked off across the Panth- CT goal line and Lowery failed to gain on the first play from the 2O-yard line. Lowery again failed and Full bright tried punt, which Smith blocked. and Gibson recovered on the Panthers' 11-yard line. Wright tried a line plunge and Birmingham-Souther was penalized five yards for off-side. Wright made a yard at the line and Bancroft completed the distance to score with dive over the line. He Hailed to kick goal.
 Bancroft Again And Again
 Bancroft again kicked over the Panther goal line and Lowery made four yards of tackle on the first play from the 20-yard line. On the next play a Panther back fumbled and Gibson recovered on Birmingham-Southern's s I22-yard line. Bancroft made four yards off tackle but Howard was pen alized 15 yards. He failed again and attempted a drop-kick from the 30-yard line. The kick was partially blocked and a Howard man recovered on the lPanthers' 2O-yard line. Wright failed on a line buck but Bancroft made three before being tackled by Williamson. Childs broke up an attempted pass and 1 Bancroft drop kicked a perfect field goal from the 25-yard line.
 That finished the story of team that plays and a team that sleeps. The rest of the narrative deals with Panther Cub that fought and smashed Bull pup line and the other touchdown by the Howard captain was made entirely due to the fault of one player. Just as the fourth quarter opened Fulbright punted from his 25-yard line to How ards 40-yard line and Captain Ban croft received the ball and ran 60- yard for touchdown. Allen, Panther lift end. had the midget Bullpup quar-