Evening star., 1926-08-30

standard narQ TO redCn.
Last year Alabama scored 296
points against 26 for its opponents
and 10 of those points were scored
by Washington in that memorable u.
to-l9 game at Pasadena Alabama s
record last year is worth printing
It opened up by beating Union SO to
0: then beat Birmingham-S Southern.
80 to :: then conSecutively defeated
Louisiana State, AZ to 0; Sewanee. 27
TO o: Georgia Tech, { to 0: Mississippi
A. and NJ, 6 to 0: Kentucky, 80 to O:
Florida. "a to 0; Georgia. 27 to 0. and
Washington. 81 to 10. That is d real
mark at which Alabama teams for
years may shoot and not attain. and
vet there seems to be a well defined
feeling among Alabama followers that
the team this Fall may not fall far
short of it.
The schedule this year is:
September 2i-NIillsaps 1t Tusca-
loOsa.
October 2--Vanderbilt at Nashville.
October 9-Nlississippi A. and NJ.
at Meridian.
October I6-Georgia Tech at At.
lanta.
October Observance at Birming-
ham.
October 3O.-Louisiana State at
November 6-Kentucky at Birming-
ham.
November I3-F1orida at Mont
gOmery.
November 25-GeOrgia at Birming-
ham.
Alabama plays the kind of schedule
every school should play 1t meets
right from the beginning of the sea-
son school of about it's own caliber
every week. and does not have breaks
in the middle of the sea son where 1t
may mop up the field with some easy
eleven.
Wallace Wade, head coach at Ala
bama for the last two years, talks
very little about his team. What he
does say is simple fact and he usually
leaves the listener to form his own
opinion. For instance, last Fall he
told the writer that IF the conference
will let me go to the Coast to play at
Pasadena against Washington L be-
leve we have an even chance to win
and it will help Southern foot ball"
Just how much Wade's Judgment was
vindicated by the result is shown by
the score.
Wade has two assistants at Ala
hama, Cohen and Crisp. Cohen is
said to be a great scout and Crisp
a good line coach. Crisp is the one
arm PLAYER who used to appear on
local fields as tackle on the Nlr-
ginia Polytechnic Institute eleven.
Propst. Mack Brown and Hagan are
to coach the freshman squad.
Made Stands High.
Now a word about this chap Wade.
He is splendid fellow personally
and well liked by everybody, and in
all the time he has been coaching
not word has ever been said of
him that was not complimentary.
That he is a good coach and val
liable man to direct athletics. as
he does at Alabama, goes without
saying.
Wade played three years in the
line at Brown University. After
leaving there he coached at the
Fitzgerald and Clark School In Ten
nessee In his second year there he
did not lose n game and won the
scholastic championship OF the
State.
He then went to Vanderbilt as as
sistant 10 Dan McGugin. and during
his two years there not game was
lost something that has happened
during no other mans regime at that
school. At the end of those TWO
years he took charge at Alabama. In
1923 he lost two games. one of them
to syracuse: in 1924 he lost one game
and last Fail was not defeated.
Therefore. i'll the last six years of
his coaching in the South Wade has
lost only three games. II there Is an
other coach in the country who has
gone six years under the same con-
ditions as Wade and lost only three
games. he is not known.
Georgia and Georgia Tech usually
are among tho best teams IN the
south. Georgia Tech Tor the last
,uto seasons having beaten Penn
state, vet neither of these two has
scored on Ala bama in the three years
Wade has been in charge.