Show Barna Bama Eleven to toBe Be Target This Y Year eID Declares Thomas By y T T. M. M DA DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY Ala Sept 13 AP V P With P-With With th the southeastern c conference conference con con- n- n ference ferenee championship to defend and a i Rose B Bowl wl victory to o l live ve up to Alabama is beginning to suspect today that its it's caught on a 3 football spout snout without a bulletproof vest r n n r all alibe be gunning for us this' this year year- says Coach Frank Thomas and all weve we've lost is a couple or three Americans nil and three more fine r regulars Well We'll be lighter but butwell butwell we well we'll be faster too and we well we'll proba probably bly be made or broken in the tackle P posts OatS Alabama not only lost by graduation graduation the amazing passing combInation combination tion of Dixie Howell Howe a great back and Don Hutson an equally great W end but the gi gigantic gigantic gi- gi If gantic Bill Lee a a t tremendous rem end 0 u S X Jf 1 It tackle tacit I e 11 likewise k pJ 4 has departed from fJ i ie th the e e eleven 1 even th that a t 1 L ma made d e lf life I e so miserable miserable mis ml S- S Ih M X r. 14 W erable for tor Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- 4 W ford in the tho Rose t t 5 f last New Jl Bowl 4 1 Years Year's day Theres There's small chance of ot replacing replacing l' l ing Howell adequately ade ade- k ij i e eThomas Qua tel y but Thomas thinks he Thomas has another end of Hutson's caliber in Captain Jimmy Walker who will team on the wings with Pa Paul l Bryant Bryant Bryant Bry Bry- ant one of the 1931 holdovers One of his tackles Jim Wh Whatley What What- t- t ley Icy but Lees Lee's JI place is Is' wide open What the candidates lack Jack in outstandIng outstanding outstanding out out- standing ability they do make up though in numbers and Thomas has a choice hoice of at four big swift fellows fellows fel tel lows for the job The answer answer to Alabama's chances this Ibis year rear probably rests right in that tackle spot If f they snap into it with fight an and aid aggressiveness well we'll have a good line tine Thomas says Weve a got a n fine pair of guards in Peters eters and Tarzan White and Kay Francis is back at c center Were Vere going to pass pass' a lot again and get as much deception and fake into our running pla plays s 's as possible The burden of carrying o on Howell's Howells How How- ells ell's greatness probably will wUl fall on Riley RUey Smith the veteran quarterback quarterback quarter quarter- back and Jimmy Angelich will b be beback beback back at right half with Clarence Rhordanz filling in for Joe Demyanovich Demyanovich Dem Dem- last years year's star fullback Thomas looks to Joe Kilgrow ailing through spring sprin practice for lor considerable con con- help in solving his halfback halfback halfback half half- back problems The schedule September 28 Howard at Tuscaloosa October 5 George Washington at Washington D. D C. C October 12 Mississippi S State Stat at Tuscaloosa October 19 Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see at Knoxville October 26 Georgia Georgia Geor Gear gia gla at Athens November 2 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky at Birmingham November 9 Clemson at Tuscaloosa November 16 Georgia Tech at Birmingham November 28 Vand Vanderbilt at Nash Nash- ville yule |