Auburn at Birmingham-Southern

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  The Birmingham age-herald, September 28, 1924, page 11

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  AUBURN. WINS GAME FROM PAINTERS, 70 Birmingham-Southern Makes Great Showins Against Plainsmen In Game rr – V P H 4 A fighting eleven and gambling coach thrilled 5000 fans and opened Munger bowl in most suspicious man nef Saturday afternoon. Auburn de- feated the Gold and Black eleven to and carried their aspirations of great [ victories and world to conquer back to their hotel rooms to ponder over. Never before in the history of the Methodist institution has the Panther helt the Tiger so nearlyevrn. Students, who ioked for nothing better than 21 to 0 score, as all dopesters figured the game, were wildly cheering until late in the evening over the Panthers great showing. Players went crying to the college gymnasium murmuring, We should have won.’ Only for the great wizardry of Au- burns forward passing machine and their first half playing, the Partners may have overwhelmed dope entirely. The Gold and Black eleven cleanly out played Auburn in the second half and made three first downs to Auburn’s two. The longest runs of the game were made by Birmingham-Southern men. The longest completed pass was made by Birmingham-Southern passer to a Birmingham-Southern end. Ger tainly the Tigers felt the claws of the Panther Saturday. There were no two players on the football field Saturday who stood out more than two orange-coated Panthers. Turner Scott and Curly Black played the greatest games of any players in the contest. They stood head and shoul- ders over the field. Scott, playing tackle, was through the line time after time and getting his man. He was tackling, going down under punts, stop ping ends runs and even tried to catch q pass, though ineligible. He played the best game of any iinesman seen at Munger Bowl in many years and was the man who time after time stopped the rushes of the Tigers. With an- other man equal to Scott on the right side of the Panther line, 1t is very probable that the story would have been different. Black Sensational As for Black his game was super sensational. Wearing the, IS bequeath- cd by ex.Captan “Hoss’ Candy, a great end and defensive man, Black played . game which would have done honor to the former wearer of the number. Backing up the line Black made more tackles than any man on the field. When the Tigers broke through it was Black who stopped them and it was Black who seldom missed his man. At bunting the versatile Panther Black got off some very cerditable kicks which pulled the Panthers out of tight holes many times. At passing Black hurled the ball straight and true and one of them fell into hands of Joe Whiteside for a gain of .28 yards. It was Black who made the prettiest run of the day, a gain of 27 yards off left tackle. It was a beautiful piece of broken field running. ss yntt The Tigers made their score early in the game. The Tigers kicked off and after try at the line Black punted to mid field, but Peterson fumbled and Malloy recovered. On the second down Black fumbled and Grisham recovered tor Auburn. Then Williams and Fur her bucked the ball down the field for first down on four tries. Green threw | pass to Peterson for 15 yards which placed the ball on the Panther 30-yard line. Make Touchdown Williams took three over left tackle anu IOu0Weu Wltn i’ve more through the same hole. Turner made six through center and the, ball was on the Panther 17.yard line. Greene made three smashes at left tackle for seven yards, placing the ball on Southern’s 10-yard line. The Partners were pen Alized five yards for off-side and the ball was on the five-yard line. Turner mde one yard aud the next play failed. Turner went through left tackle for four yards and a touchdown. Peter son drop-kicked the goal after touch down. After the rushing start of the Plains men the overflowing crowd, or those among them who backed the Panthers, saw visions of a badly chewed-up feline and a contented Tiger licking its chops, Those of theme who were weak-hearted and expected such things to come to pass were never to realize their ex- pectations. From that time on the Panthers fought every step of the way and late in the first half the Gold and Black eleven began taking desperate chances at scoring.

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Auburn leads 13–⁠3 in 16 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.