The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-06
CAN SAVANNAH DEVELOP A TEAM
TO BEAT CHARLESTON THIS YEAR?
THIS IS THE ALL ABSORBING CUES
TIoN TO ENTHUSIASTS HERE.
ALL STAR ELEVEN WILL PLAY
HERE ON NEW YEARS DAY.
HAVE HAD MUCH ADVANTAGE IN
EARLY PRACTICE AND CON-
DITIONING.

Large Score Piled Up Against For
screven Yesterday Was a Great
Surprise Here-LocaI Team Needs
the Moral Support of Those Who
Have the Interest of the Team al
Heart-The Old savannah Spirit
Seems to De on the Wane.
VIII Savannah develop team this
year which will be able to sustain the
proud traditions of the Blue and
White? This is the one absorbing
question among the gridiron devotees
now.
To the armored athletes who will
fight under the Blue and White, to the
thousands of loyal followers of the col
ors which have become estranged to
defeat, beyond the grinding clash of
the padded catapults of Drawn and
muscles, and above the shrill whistle
hicts on the checkerboard. there is a
vision of the one final struggle and
the last shrill down" warning, ever
before them as an incentive to again
SuobdAAA AAAO PAOAA ~ e~AANAOAAo ~ RN~SN
glories on the football field.
But with all the ambition and all the
good intents to gain added glory by
defeating perhaps the strongest team
of footballists ever assembled in the
South, the Savannah team needs much
more than is at present in sight to
again triumph over Charleston.
Moral Support Wanted.
The material is at hand. the expert
ence and generalship is here. but the
old Savannah spirit seems to be on the
wane-not among the players and those
directly interested in the development
of the team. but among those whose
moral support and assistance is so
badly needed.
Smarting under the cruel punish
ment which they have suffered at the
hands of former teams turned out here,
Charlestonians have gone to work as
they never worked before to secure and
develop a team with which to secure
revenge. They have spared neither
money nor pains in perfecting the
team which was sent against the UNI
usually heavy Fort Screven squad yes
terday, and how well their efforts have
availed them is demonstrated in that
score.
Losing hope of developing a team at
home, Charleston went outside and Sc
cured one which should be able to hold
its own against any eleven in the
South. Individual stars from some of
the strongest teams in the South have
been brought together, and are daily
being moulded into great machine,
with which to batter down the blue
and white defense, and break the chain
of successive victories on which Sa-
vannah enthusiasts have grown to
surfeit.
VIII Meet To-day.
Capt. Cope has called a meeting OF
the candidates for places on the team
for this morning at II O'Clock at the
Bolton Street Park. Every man who
expects to get on the team is expected
TO be present.
Capt. Cope says he is particularly de-
circus of ii being understood he is not
responsible for the statements that the
team will be rearranged for the annual
game with Charleston on New Years
Dav.
He will select the men according to
their merit, with no regard for per-
sonalitles. If Rossiter and Black are
candidates for places and outplay 9TH
ers they will be given places, but If
they do not. the team which will be
worked on for the next few weeks will
be the one which will wear the Blue
and White on Jan. 1.
Regular Practice Needed.
To successfully cope with a team
such as Charleston has brought to-
gether Savannah will have to have reg
ular practice. This has been impos-
sible so far this season, owing to the
inability of large number of the men
to get off on regular practice nights.
Night practices are not as satisfac-
tory as those in the day time, and
TO get down to the right kind of play
practices by daylight will be neces-
sary.
The tremendous score rolled up by
Charleston yesterday was a surprise
here, as ii had been expected that the
Fort Screven team would succeed in
making its great weight tell.
This score, but Indicates the strength
of the Charleston team work, which
was sadly lacking last year. Defen-
sive play is individual play, and while
ii was expected Charleston would show
great defensive work the offensive team
work was surprising.
Thanksgiving Game Uncertain.
1t is as yet undecided who will pla,
here on Thanksgiving, the manage
ment of the South Carolina Colleg,
team having made demands on tn
Savannah Athletic Association, which
Manager McIntire says are unreason
able.
Continued on Page Nine).