Atlanta Daily World

MOREHOUSE INVADES ALABAMA. TENNESSEE E ON ICY HIGHWAYS

Dr. Frank L. Forbes and his Maroon Tiger Cage team must have adopted the philosophy and the attitude of the theatre last Friday morning when the group chartered a Greyhound bus and departed over icy highways for Normal, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee for important conference games with Alabama A & M College and Fisk University. Notwithstanding the fact that the highway department stated that highway 78 was closed both east and west of Tallapoosa, Georgia, the Forbesmen rode the trails with the firm belief that the basketball games, like the show, must go on.

Normally, the team would have travelled via two college-owned station wagons up through Douglasville, Rockmart, Cedartown and thence into Huntsville and Normal Alabama. But, triple A declared this route "most hazardous," "impossible."

The Greyhound Lines felt that they could get through by going west to Anniston, Ala., and then north to Huntsville, and so the trip was on. Then came the warning: "Watch out for Tallapoosa."

While watching out for Tallapoosa, the Maroon Tigers forgot to watch out for Alabama A & M and the Bulldogs rolled by them (the Maroon Tigers) by a 48-42 score.

The Forbesmen left the Alabama A & M campus early yesterday morning for the Fisk University campus. The score of the Morehouse Fisk game should appear elsewhere on the pages.

The Morehouse College basketball team will leave Nashville, Tennessee this a. m. and return to the College campus. Just what route they will travel is not known at this time. If they come over highway forty-one, they must climb Mount Eagle. This they might do, provided the weather in that area will have cleared. Otherwise, the Maroon Tigers will come down highway thirty-one to Pulaski, Tennessee, swing east to Fayetteville, Tennessee, and then turn south and roll through Normal and Huntsville, Alabama to Anniston, Alabama. At Anniston, the bus will head east along highway 78 to Atlanta.

The Forbesmen will spend the early part of the week thawing out, and then they will hit the trail to Knoxville, Tennessee for a game with the Knoxville College Bulldogs on Friday night, January 19th. Immediately following this game, Morehouse will return to its home court for a game with the Fort Valley State Wildcats on Saturday, January 20th.

Dr. Forbes is proud of his Maroon Tigers, for they have played good games under extremely difficult circumstances.

Among the men who made the trip are Clinton Elmore, Willie Finley, James Haines, Lionel Gordon, W. O. Generett, Earle Harris; James Wingfield, Robert Hall, Michael Kendrick, George Trammell, and Clarence Wheeler.