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AND NOW WE HAVE THE P'LAINSMEN y
When Oliver Goldsmith, in his "Deserted Village," penned the immortal lines, "SWeet
Auburn, loveliest village of the plain," he had no thought of furnishing a name for the football
team representing Alabama Polytechnic Institute, one of the South’s leading universities. But ·
furnish a name he did and now the men of Aiiburn are known throughout the country as the   Q  
"Plainsmen." T
Whether the town of Auburn is a lovely village or not it makes no difference; neither
does it matter if Auburn is not situated on the plains. What really counts today is that Ala-
bama Polytechnic Institute, which is located at Auburn, Alabama, has an excellent football
team. _
This is the first meeting between football teams representing Auburn and the Univer-
sity of Kentucky but the Wildcats and Plainsmen feel that they already know each other
through the medium of Chester Allen "The Ch etter" Wynne, who took over the helm at Ken-
tucky this year after coaching a Auburn for four years.
Wynne was idolized at Auburn, and justly so. When the former Notre Dame fullback
went to Auburn in 1930 he found a demoralized football squad which had not won a confer-
ence game in years. Auburn was a door mat for the leading Southern football teams. Wynne l
soon changed the complexion of afairs at Auburn. He lost his first game but the Plainsmen
were accustomed to losing. Before that first sea son was over, however, The Chetter had his
Plainsmen believing in themselves and they be gan to win football games.
ln his second year, Wynne’s team at Auburn really began to assert itself, winning games
from some of the most powerful elevens in the South. Chet then was hailed as a “Nll1`€tCl€
Man" for what he was accomplishing at Auburn. His third year at Auburn, Wynne develop- A
ed a team which won the co-championship of the Southeastern Conference, defeating, among
others, Tulane, Georgia, and Georgia Tech. His 1932 team did not lose a single game alhough
itl was tied by South Carolina in the final game when half of the Plainsmen were suffering from
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Auburn continued its winning streak last year, which was Wynne’s final season with
the Plainsmen, and The Chetter was becoming an institution.
At this point in his career, Coach Wynne heard the call of the Blue Grass. Being
somewhat of a restless disposition, The Chetter decided to pull up stakes at Auburn and cast
his lot with Kentucky, where his presence certainly was needed. ,
. Auburn has not done so well this year in the matter of victories won, but the Plainsmen, _
. now coached by Jack Meagher, have proven a dangerous foe to all opponents this year. Mighty O  
Tulane found them hard to crack, and Huey Long’s Louisiana Staters were forced to the limit
to nose them out. Auburn’s outstanding accomplishment of the season, so far, was the stand
the Plainsmen made last Saturday against the powerful Vanderbilt Commodores. Auburn led A
Vandy by 6 to O until the last minute of the game when the Commodores became very lucky y
indeed and scored a touchdown and converted the extra point to down Auburn by 7 to 6.
Coach Wynne already has worked wonders at Kentucky. Just give him tinié, gentle
puplic, and lietiyillfpigcliice at Kentucky like he did at Auburn and like he did a Creighton,
ct ore e wen o u urn.
Wynne’s Wildcats so far have wen three games and lost two. They walked through
h'I2ll`YVlll€ €21Slly lll the Opener, then lost tg W/as hjngtgn and Lee by at Slllglé JCOUCl'1ClOWH scored
in a rainstorm. The ’Cats then asserted their offense in a 27 to 0 win over Cincinnati, and
followed with a 7 to 0 victory over a hard fighting Clenqson eleven. They lost a heart-breaker
last Saturday to North Carolina by 6 to O. It was an undeserved Carolina victory as Kentucky
gUt1)§€},Y€Cl the rrar Heels fOl' thI'€€ of th€ fOu]‘ qu a1‘t@]_‘$ and l'1'12ld€ JEGH first dovvns tO five fOr
aroma. ‘
O It was no disgrace for Kentucky to lose to Washington and Lee, a team which held
_ Princeton to a 14 to 12 victory last Saturday. Neither was it Ei disgrace to lose to Carolina,
WhlCl1 hilfl Cléfeélted Georgia by 14 to (Q) the; yvggk befgre in G(—101`Q_'l2`|.,S OWH back y31`Ci- On the
other hand the Plainsmen were not a bit disgraced by the games they lost this year.
This is Kentucky’s first Southeasern Conference game of the year. The Wildcats are
most eager to win. So are the Plainsmen. Th ey want to make Wynne regret his decision to
leave Auburn. The ’Cats want to show their bo ss that he made a wise move. The Wildcats to
a man are for Wynne. So is the State of Kentucky.
Kentucky welcomes you, most admirable Plainsmen, but Kentucky is going to turn loose
all ofthe Wynne-generated Wildcat power to send you back, not to "Sweet Auburn, loveliest
village of the plain," but to Edgar Allen Poe’s "Down by the dank tarn of Auburn, in the
mystic mid-regions of Weir." A   .
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