Auburn at Alabama

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  The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, November 18, 1906, page 1

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  ALABAMA IS THE WINNER University Defeats Au- burn 10 to 0. BURKS THE SHINING STAR Great Halfback a Strong Factor in Victory. 4. F. ‘. Eleven Put up Game Fight, But Proved too Light for Heavier Opponents on siip- perx Field. BY WILL T. STEPHAN. Atabana’s beef and brawn men con- auered Auburn’s skill and duickness here this afternoon. By a score of 10 to 0. the University won the great annual inter-Alabama football game in the presence of 5000 people. Burks, the great plunging halfback, the brightest star that has ever twin kled in the University’s football firm ament closed his four years of college football game in a blaze of glory. Ills good right toe sent the ball over the goal for the first score from a place kick on the twenty-yard line, and by a daring and spectacular run of forty yards, he carried the ball over for a clean touchdown for the second score. Tonight the University is celebrating it’s victory. and when 8 cheer goes up for Varsity, corresponding cheer goes up for the powerful plunging halfbaek, who was the agency for both scores. It took all of Alabama’s brawn and muscle to peat down the skilled and game defense of the lighter tigers of Auburn. In the first half, Auburn held a stS4.dstill. Alabama’s strength was offset by Auburn’s shrewdness, but Ala bama, holding the promise of victory, was for some unaccountable reason not content to rely on line bucxlng, at which she clearly exceIled. but resorted to the forward pass and the double pass. and her lighter and quicker an- tagonists won from her the advantage she had gained in straight line buck ing. Between the halves, Coach Pollard rushed over to the red legged Ala bama warriors and gave them some hot talk on trying trick plays. So when the red legs lined up for the second battle they threw themselves again at the lighter blue clad fighters from Auburn. ard again and again they made gains. Aaabasaa Tee Ereavy. Sims. Franklin. Moody and Burks throw their agile weight against Au- burns sIenderer line and always for a gain Always for a gain was a line buck or a tandem play in it’s various notifications, made Auburn simply could not stop them until it’s yard line was reached Twice 1t stopped the heavy red line on the ten-yard line, and twice when it had held Alabama on the ten-yard line for downs, 1t was scored on--once when Burks sent the ball from a place kick, and once when, after Auburn had sbeen held for down and gotten the ball, Burks ran Whit ner’s punt through the crowded field ana over the goal line. Alabama’s weight and strength was run in a hurry up style, and Auburn’s quiekness and gamefess simply could not withstand it. The score would nave been larger had not Alabama tried to pit it’s quick ness and trickery against the quickness and trickery of Auburn in the first half. At the same time, the Orange and Blue was swifter than the Red. In straight football Alabama’s supremacy was evident 1t was the eleventh game played in the great rivalry between the two Ala bama colleges, the greatest annual game on the schedule of either col- lege. Of these eleven games Alabama has won four and Auburn seven. Today’s game had in 1t more general interest, and was perhaps more hotly contested than any game of the entire series. Football enthusiasts freely and openly took possession of Birm- ingham today. The streets were filled with beiowered and beribboned young men and young women. Excursions of special trains ere run from Auburn and from Tuscaloosa. I Alumni Among EOoters. The annual alumni banquet of the University of Alabama was held last night, and to 1t and to the other foot ball games. hundreds of old grades, prominent in the professional and in- dustrial life of Alabama came, and their voices were raised in the mighty cheers Chat rolled over the field when Burks sent his toe against the leather for the first seora. In the morning hours, Alabama had the better of the cheering. A crowd of Varsity students with red and white pennants and red and white ribbon, marched up and down the streets, giving the old yells’ of Ala baTna. At 10 o’clock a special train came in from Auburn, and the orange and blue evened up matters. This train load of students was headed by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute band, and the crowd made up for all the time that had been lost in cheer ing. The game was played in mass of mud at the Fair Grounds. Part Of the gridiron was laid out on the race track marsh of soft mud. The football fighters soon became caked with mud, mud on their faces, mud on their clothes, and mud on their bare legs. In the last ten minutes of play, a soft warm rain came up and the foot ball players were as streaked and striped as any aboriginal IndIn tht 5FGT WtHl lo WIT III AlAnama. Sims is Protested. An unpleasant feature of the game as the protest made by Auburn to the Southern Intercollegiate Association against the playing of Sims, Alabamas heavy llnemaA The protest was filed against Sims Bn the ground that his and his attention 10 studies and attendance upon college had not met the requirements of the rules of the Intercollegiate Associa- ton. It was declared that Vice-Pres- ldent Holmes, in whose official terriP tory is Alabama, sustained this pro- teAt in a telegram to Auburn but Alabama played Sims, as 1t had re- ceived no notice Auburn accordingly protested tho game In advance. The Incident aroused some feeling Tutwller Of Virginia and Roberta nam of Lehlgh were umpire and ref srSe. They had a hard task. Four times Alabama was penallzed. This was due to the over anxiety of Burks n the line. the brother of tho great half. He weDt each time when ha saw.

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Officially, Alabama leads 52–⁠37–⁠1; as played, 51–⁠32–⁠1 in the 84 games on file; the official count covers all 90 meetings, counting the 79 since this game.