TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Auburn-'Bama 41 Year Feud Ends Saturday
Atlanta, Nov. 30—(UP)—Alabama and Auburn will play a football game Saturday in Eirmingham for the first time in 41 years. It has taken all that time to disprove the popular legend that the schools dropped athletic relations in 1907 because of "danger to the spectators."
The rumors that excessive bitterness in games from 1892 to 1907 caused free-for-alls and riots with snowballed down through the years. But there is no verification of the reports and, finally, after nearly half a century, they have been dispelled as mythological.
Both schools explain that the series was discontinued because of failure to get together on officials, dates and places.
In the early 'twenties, when Auburn was a major collegiate power Alabama clamored for a return Auburn would not agree.
A decade later Alabama emerged as the elite of Dixie football. Auburn hollered for a game—and didn't get it.
Numerous bills were introduced in the Alabama legislature to require that the teams meet or their appropriations be cut off. All were defeated. This spring authorities of the two institutions scheduled Saturday's fracas.
Administrators have little fear of violence this year. One plausible reason—which has gone unvoiced—is that both teams have had such poor seasons that supporters will find it hard to work up any enthusiasm for either.
The coming clash, in which the unlimited substitution rule is bound to play a prominent role, will be a distant cry from the battering endurance contests of old. In the '07 game, Auburn used 11 players — Alabama won't match such stamina, using a previously unheard-of 15-player total.
That one ended in a 6 to 6 tie, only one of the 11-game series that had even been close. In all, Alabama has won four, Auburn five and there was the tie.
In 1907, coach J. W. H. Pollard of Alabama stunned the football world with the introduction of a "varsity two-step" formation, which "threw the Auburn defense into confusion."
It worked like this;
The team divided into three parts, the left side of the line joining hands behind the line and the right side following suit. The center faced the
backfield. The line skipped into position and the backs followed to either the right or to the left at the signal of the quarterback. One sports writer called the formation "as fancy and as dainty as the minutel."
Despite the comparatively inferior quality of the two teams this year, the long-awaited game doesn't stand to resemble a "minuet." It's the last chance of the season for each to salvage some self-respect and they'll be keeded for a battle royal.
Riotlessly, of course.
The Street and Traffic Safety Lighting Bureau says half of the night fatal traffic accidents are attributable to inadequate thoroughfare lighting.
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Forrest Griffith, battering "Grif" shoulders fullback duties on Daily Kansan Big Seven All-Star first team.
Big 7 Opens Court Season
Four basketball teams in the Big Seven, where Oklahoma is favored to sack up the championship, will go into action this week, three of them tomorrow night.
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Wednesday's openers will find Nebraska playing Marville (Mo.) State college at Lincoln; Kansas State meeting Emporia State college at Emporia, Kan., and Iowa State playing Cornell (la.) college at Ames.
Bruce Drake's high-geared Oklahoma squad was not scheduled for its first action until Wednesday, Dec. 8 when it meets at Norman Okla.
Coach Forest C. (Phog) Allen's University of Kansas entry will make its first appearance of the 1948-49 season Thursday night in Kansas City, Mo., against Rockhurst college.
Kansas State's second game of the week will be against Phillips U., Bartlesville, Okla., at Manhattan, Kan., while Iowa State's second rival is Coe (la.) college at Ames next Saturday night.
Missouri, generally rated No. 2 in the Big Seven, will open its new season against Wisconsin at Madison, Wis. Thursday, Dec. 9, while Colorado, whose Buffaloes are called "dangerous" in pre-season guessing, will wait until Friday, Dec. 17 to make its debut.
Texas To Play In Orange Bowl
Austin, Tex., Nov. 30—(UP)—The University of Texas, Southwest conference runner-up, accepted an invitation to face Georgia in the Orange bowl at Miami. Fla., on Jan. 1 and announced the squad would take a week's rest before opening drills.
The announcement of Texas' acceptance was made by Dana X. Bible, Athletic director, after conferences with Coach Blair Cherry and members of the Longhorn squad.
Cherry said preliminary workouts will begin Dec. 6, when the squad will open a week of light conditioning drills. Full-scale practice for the bowl clash, Texas' fifth, will begin Dec. 13.
Southwest conference approval usually a routine action, was requested through James H. Stewart, conference executive secretary.
The Longhorn squad, beaten three times and tied once this season, voted unanimously to accept the bid to meet the Southeastern conference champions.
In four previous bowl showings, Texas has played three times in the Cotton bowl at Dallas and once. last Jan. 1, in the Sugar bowl at New Orleans.
Texas in the Cotton bowl whipped Georgia Tech, 14 to 7 in 1943; tied Randolph Field, 7 to 7, in 1944; and defeated Missouri, 40 to 27, in 1946.
The Longhorns defeated Alabama, 27 to 7, in the Sugar bowl last Jan.1.
The first Orange bowl feeler came late Saturday night, but the official invitation was received shortly after noon today.
The Steers won six games, lost three and tied one this season. They suffered defeats at the hands of North Carolina, Oklahoma and Southern Methodist, being tied by Texas A and M.
Texas will be the fourth Southwest conference squad to play in Miami's Orange bowl. Texas Christian lost to Georgia in 1942, 40 to 26, Texas A and M lost to LSU, 19 to 14 in 1944, and Rice defeated Tennessee in 1947, 8 to 0.
Ed Olle, University of Texas Athletic business manager, said that he would begin to accept orders immediately for sale of Texas' share of 5,000 seats for the game.
Chuck Bednarik Drafted By Eagles
Philadelphia, Nov. 30—(UP)—Chuck Bednarik, Pennsylvania's all-purpose center, won a unique double distinction today when he was named player of the year by the Philadelphia Maxwell club and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles
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Football Causes Fire
Warren, N. Y.—(UP)—A youngsters' game of street football brought out the fire department in this town. Officials explained that a bootted football struck an electric wire, causing a short circuit.
The Pants Wouldn't Fit
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