Auburn at Mercer

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  The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, October 17, 1909, page 13

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  AUBURN SWAlIPS MERCER ELEVEN Game at Macon sf Ragged Sort. TECH BOYS SCORE AT WILL Georgia Warriors Put Up Losing. But Determined Battle. Cspfsia Reynelas Is the Bright, Par tieuIar star ana His werk Is of . Very Hish Order--Resuit Is 2a to 5. TECH BOYS SCORE AT WILL Macon, Ga. Oct. 1s--(speciaI.) )--Au- burn 23. Mercer 5. In a hard fought game Auburn de- feated Mercer today. The work of the Auburn team in the first half was very poor. They lost one touchdown by and another by careless paying. In this half the only scoring by Auburn was two place kicks by Reynolds. In the last half, by Penton’s splendid line plunging and good kicking for the Au- burn team. three touchdowns were made and another was prevented by Mercer scored a touchdown in the first half on two fumbied kicks and q short forward pass which Scro8gins pulled away from Harris. The work of the Mercer team as whole was very good. the team showining marked improvement over anything 1t had done this year. Auburns defense was not as clean cut and sharp as usual, the team seem- ing to have slumped on account Of the heat. Harris and Heron started the game at half-back and did good work in spite of their light weight Hiii and Noble did good work at ends and John Davis helped the offense materially when he went into the game in the last half. Captain Reynolds played in the game. which was his first scrimmags for week. His running with the ball was brilliant, but his generalship had an off day. Penton did the bulk of the ground gaining and came through the game in good shape. Auburn gained ground enough during the game to score six touchdowns. but fumbling and careless playing kept the game and put up high class article Of football.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., October 17, 1909, page 1 (results column)

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  WANTED FOOTBALL RESULTS. At New York: Syracuse H., Carlisle IA. At West Point: Yale II, West Point o. At Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 10, Brown s. At Princeton: Princeton 20, Sewanee 0. At Cambridge: Harvard II, Maine 0. At Andover: Dartmouth Is, Williams 0. At Ithaca: Cornell s, Fordham IL At Annapolis: Annapolis g. Vilanova IL At Atlanta: Tech 50, Carolina O. At Ann Arbor: Michigan g. Ohio State 8. At Bloomington: Indiana 27. Lake For est 8. At Lafayette: Perdue Is, Depauw 70. At Omaha: Minnesota II, Nebraska 0. Ae Des Moines: Drake 35 Coe 0. At Milwaukee,: Marquette 16, st. Johns o. At Beloit: Beloit 1. Northwestern g. At st. Louis: Washington University o. Milliken 8. At Indianapolis: Butler %, Hanover s. At Notre Dame: Notre Dame 60, Rose Polytechnic II. At Middleton, Conn: Wesleyan S, YER mont 8. At Amherst. Mass: Amherst 8, Tufts g. At Brunswick, Me-: Bowdoin 9, Phil lips Exeter 6. At Lancaster, Pa: Franklin and Mar tina Is, Rutgers 0. At Lexington, KY: Central University of Danville 40, College of Tennessee 0. At Bristol Tenn: King College 20, dublin Virginia institute o. At Macon. Ca: Mercer 5. Auburn 23 At Lynchburg: “ M. I 3, North Carolima 0. At Baton Rouge, La: University of Louisiana 15, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical O. At Norfolk, Va. Lehigh II. Virginia Z. At Lexington, Ky: State university II, university of Tennessee 0. At Daleville, Ark: Ouachita &c. College of Physicians and Surgeons o. At Clinton. Miss: Mississippi college “a. Chzmberlain Hunt academy 0. At GAINESVILLE, Tenn: st. Mary’s coll 1ege a. 8. P. U. O. At Paris. Tenn: Grove school 50, Cum berland City academy O.

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Auburn leads 12–⁠0 in 12 meetings, counting the nine since this game.