BAMA FOOTBALL'S FIRST SEASON: 1892 (the proposed 1893 Mardi Gras game with Tulane in New Orleans was never played)
1892 Alabama Cadets football team - Wikipedia
UNIVERSITY NOTES. The manager of football team was very unsuccessful, during the fall arranging games and the poor fellow was feeling rather blue ever the result of the hard work which he expended in praying the managers of other college teams for games. He is beaming at the present writing, however. Fortune, like its opposite, never comes singlv. No sooner had this indefatigable laborer completed arrangements for the Auburn game than a flattering offer came to him from Tulane University of New Orleans to play in that place during Mardi Gras. This will be a great game, and a fitting precursor of the contests of the following weeks.
Apropos of football,
the following was heard just after the last game with the Birmingham
Athletic Club, coming from a very prominent citizen, it illustrates to
some extent what a spectator thinks of the game. "Football is rough, terribly rough, and if it progresses, as does everything else, in a few years
the players will be armed with razors, clubs, pistols or any any other weapon that can be used to advantage in close quarters. I have a son who is going to the University and if he does not 'make the Eleven', I shall disown him."
The list of those intending to go to the Auburn game on the "University special" continues to grow and the crowd promises to be larger than the most sanguine of us expected. Let every one who has thus far failed to sign, do so at once, is it is the desire of the Athletic Association to have plenty of room for all on the train, and unless it is known about how many will go, there might be an unpleasant packing of football enthusiasts on February the 22nd inst. The list is still in the sales-rooms of Friedman & Rosenau.
The Tuesday and Thursday practice are growing in interest. as the "scrub" becomes more familiar with the intricacies of the play. We would be delighted to see our Tuskaloosa friends at these games.
They begin promptly at 4 o'clock on the above mentioned days.
F.
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