The Tiger Vol. XX No. 14
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GOBBLE THE GOBBLERS HOMECOMING MAKE IT DAY QKger ICTORiOUS HE ROARS FOR CLEMSON VOL. XX Cl&HSOS COLLEGE, S. C, OCTOBER 29, 1924. No. '4 TO MEET CLEMSON SATURDAY THIS FINISH THIRD CERS LOSE THRILLER TO GAMECOCKS IN HOMECOMING GAME ON RIBiS FIELO i nt itt DRACE AS BREAKS DECIDE STATE FAIR CLASSIC Clemson Cross-Country Team Second Tigers Will Strive for Victory in Third Conference Game of To Georgia And Tech, But Ahead Field Goal by Boatwright Gives Carolina 3-0 Victory in 22nd 1924 Season—Alumni and Fans Expected to Of Florida And Oglethorpe Game—Seeries Now Stands Clemson 15; Carolina 6, Flock for Gala Day With One Tie The Clemson cross-country team, ii Homecoming Day will be staged on the Tiger campus Sat- under the leadership of Coach W. D. The breaks of the game will decide the winner, so closely Reed, entered the Southeastern urday, and the main attraction of. the day will be the gridiron are the teams matched, said the leading experts prior to the battle between Clemson and V. P. I. The game should be one A. A. U. road race in Atlanta Saturday morning, and the Jun- staging of South Carolina's premier gridiron battle, Clemson of the feature football events of the season, attracting thous- gle Marathoners finished third. vs. Carolina. And for once the experts were right. The Tigee ands of visitors to Jungleville. Preparations are being made Tate, of the University of Georgia- and the Gamecock clashed in the State Fair Ground Stadium for the handling of a huge crowd, and Kiggs Field is now am- crossed the tape first after the before 12,000 peoplee, the largest crowd that ever witnessed ply provided with seating accommodations for a real football three-mile run. Geogia Tech won a football game in the Palmetto State; they were so evenly gathering. the team trophy with 37 points, matched that there was little to choose between them; the Clemson and Virginia Tech both while Georgia, Clemson Florida, breaks went to Carolina, and so the Gamecock won, 3 to 0. hav formidable teams this year, aad and Oglethorpe finished next in there will be every incentive for the order nomed. Twenty-two times have the two both to strive to the utmost for the CUBS LOSE BATTLE The first ten men to finish were institutions met, in the series victory, this presenting to the fans Tate, Geogia; Marks, Georgia; Lips- TIGER-BULLDOG GAME which furnishes South Carolina one of the treats of a great season. TO DAVIDSON BATS comb, unattached; Mitchell, Tech; with her classic of classics on The contest will be played at 11 Griffin, Georgia; Howard, unat- TO BE GALA AFFAIR Thursday of Fair Week. The bat- o'clock in the morning in order ta Wildkittens Defeat Cubs In Specta- tached; E. C. Sease, Clemson; Cul- tle made the sixth victory for avoid conflict with the Furman- cular Exhibition lom unattached; R. E. Sease, Clem- Clemson Cadet Corps Will Attend In Carolina, while Clemson is still Georgetown game which holds the son ; Davis, Tech. a Body.—Special Train AVill Carry far ahead with 15 successful starts. stage on Manly Field in Greenville Fate dealt the Tiger Cubs their The Clemson distance runners Tiger Supporters To Anderson. There was one tie game. Saturday afternoon. This arrange- first loss of the season when she will stage a dual meet with Georgia It seems to have become a habit ment of the program will make it permitted the Davidson Freshmen Tech here .in the near future, and The football fans thoughout the for Tiger-Gamecock contests to be possible for the lovers of football to to triumph by a 13 to 6 score. Coach Reed is confident his boys State are looking forward with keen decided by goals kicked, either see two fine games the same day. However, the Cubs aren't going will be victorious over a slightly interest to the Clemson-Citadel from the field or after touchdown. V. P. I, has come through five to let their first sting of defeat longer distance. game on November 15; but the fans Charlie Robinson's toe has turned games, three of them Southern Con- bother them in any way except to —W. W. B. of the city of Anderson are in all the trick for Clemson on two ference battles, not only without spur them on to greater efforts. probability taking a greater amount occasion, and Tatum Gressette's defeat but without being scored OT;. Their first victory was as brilliant Mrs. J. Massie Johnson, was called of interest in this contest because it did it for Carlina in 1920. This year P. J. Boatwright kicked the This is a splendid record, even as it was well deserved, and a vic- to Asheville by the death of her will be the biggest game of the goal which defeated the Tigers, though the Gobblers were unable tory in the past game failed to sister. Mrs. Johson has lost three season, and perhaps the biggest kicking from placement on the 17- to score themselves in two of the materialize only becuse the Cubs got members of her family in eighteen in several years, th»t has been yard line, when Carolina held the games, their contest with Auburn a bad start and permitted the young months, and has the sympathy of played in South Carolina's Electric ball on Clemson's five-yard marker. and with Washington and Lee re- Wildcats to make the best of their the community . City. The promoters of the game sulting in scoreless ties. The fine breaks. in Anderson have been doing, and Blake Edmunds put his- team in position to score by intercepting a record has been made over 'eal The Davidsonites played a dash- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eaton at- will continue to do, everything that pass from Charlie Robinson, and opposition too, for both the Plains- ing and running game that un- tended The Textile Show in Green- is within their power to make this men and the Generals, the two out- nerved the Clemson lads long ville this week . one of the largest drawing cards on racing to Clemson's five-yard line fits with which tie games were play- enough to permit the Wild Kittens the football program for this year. before being downed. ed, are among the undefeated lead- to make their first counter. Mc- It has been announced by the Wonderful Defensive Play ers, of the Conference also, and Eathern recovered a blocked punt THE GAME officials of the college that the Clem- To Charlie Robinson ge the Maryland University, the Conference on the Cubs 20 yad line, and when son Cadet Corps will be allowed to thanks of Clemson supporters for. Saturday ushers in the month the fact that Carolina's score was, team which V. P. I. defeated, is Gray slung a 16 yard pass to Over- of November, and it also brings attend the game in Anderson. A rated as one of the strongest of ton, the same Gray who captains the to the Clemson Tigers the most special train will leave Cherry's a field goal and not a touchdown. the South Allantic section. Twj Davidson eleven, smashed through important football game of that about 12 P. M. on the day of the For Charlie was the man who early season victories were over month. At eleven o'clock that game, and will carry the students stopped Edmunds before he cross- the line for a touchdown. morning the Homecoming Day Richmond and Hampden-Sydney, Unvanquished, the Cubs retaliated crowd will gather on Riggs Field to the scene of the encounter. All ed the goal line, and in doing so, colleges which have hard-to-beat in the last part of the initial half for the Clemson-V. P. I. Game. men who will be able to go are he pulled the greatest defensive That the Tigers win is of the teams in spite of being small in and scored. Three weill handled urged to do so because the Citadel run this write? has ever seen. utmost importance. Victory in It was early in the third quarter size. passes that netted a total of 65 this battle will bring Clemson has a strong aggregation this year, when the whole thing occured. The Gobblers will enter the fray yards did "the trick. fame over the entire South; vic- and they expect to make the other tory in the three other remaining with Clemson set on keeping their Things looked dubious until a teams of the state work hard to Clemson had the ball on Carolina's games will he little heard of out- beat them. Their victory over Fur- 39-yard line, and Charlie Robinson, slate clear both of defeat and scores dashing Wild Cat end pounced upon side of South Carolina. by the enemy. On the other hand a rambling pass and slipped over Southern teams of importance man last Saturday was a big step standing far behind the line of our Tigers will tread onto ' the the goal line for their second touch- are judged now by their standing towards the State Championship. scrimmage, threw a forward pass, in the Southern Conference. Clem- field of conflict fired with deadly down. The Tiger must be primed for tho which instead of finding its way son, in order to put a mark on the to a Tiger receiver, ■ finally rested determination to make good in the With their backs to their goal line right side of the Conference led- occasion, and the loyal support of eyes of the public for the two de- they fought well, but when they ger, must defeat the Gobblers, for every true Tiger will be needed in in the hands of Edmunds, who' feats already suffered; to avenge were in the middle of the fields Saturday's contest will be the last Anderson on the 15th.