The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-16
Mitchah,, South's Greatest
 Football Hero, Says Heisnlan.

them .biood. bones and all.' And there was Mitcham, our only real player and halfway heavyweight the victim or
 As we entered the gate at Piedmont Park. I was worrying about "Mitchs humps, but ten seconds later l knew and realized for the nrst time Wnas been all fall. I saw him pecking hes itatfngly around the corner or the grand stand at the hordes of specta- tors and just as sos tc hanh rim he aS a5s
 m his. lips, and could see at glance ali the sieepless nights that boy had put in worrying whore my salary was % Never will or any one else who saw if forset the game Mitch" played that dav. Georgia had us 13 to at the end of the first half. and Mitch went while I Alternately. scolded and en- sraated the rest of the feam. And then fine second half started. Ninety yards 1t brought the ball without a halt for :o sssons esorsla. .0psoTMh promptly took the bali away from the Athenians on downs ana swept thirty yards more for third touchdown. And wh" did It! .oe rne Mitcham. first, last and all the time Mitcham! He snapped the ball at cen fer sometimes. and then went tc guard and interfered. He gave all the s1go o
 
 urged his players on and argued with 1 the ofIicials. And when we just had to | have a gain for first down It was in- yariaSy ,as,an Mtsnnm anS IaS then %ens crash ing through Georgia's line till 1t look ed. as Henry Grady said, like damp. ened tissue paper. Stop him they just couldn't. though tney ,y, iela rareS Sh and % tore re like a lion. and ordered his own signa, ...,
 SO often his own boys had to beg him | to desist every now and then iest ne l Kill himself. Oh, 1t was grand. sup | hard but no harder ever. Others may 1 on other fields have been more pTiiaan. | but no more desperate. more neroio
 and not so many or nen sneen was sas'v won T IS.
 And that night when Mitcham count. | ed me out my salary--every cent oi :, --his talk and thought were never 1 1i I. himself or his humps. but only oI ms thankfulness that all the teams man. l ciaI obligations had been met. but Il was Mitcham; I say; wno ssnnsst,on msa no, the team. not I: 1t was Mitcham strong arm. clear eye and stout near, at the wheel that had brought tns
 wreck to port. after all or & us nad let 'shs fin, l old hulk sink. That victory prizs above and beyond any other team o | mine evAr achie ved-not because ths team was the ptSt SNSt Al. it. for 1t was, perhaps, potentiaiiy tn' l worst, but because it deffed late inssl s and won from such overwhelming odas
 Put again it was Mitcham whol dis if and that's why he is and ever VII he 10 my eye the South's Greatest Foot
 ball Hero
 | The One Year Rule.
 Ere this appears in print the 5. l.
 A. will have voted and it will hay I heen decided whether the one year rui
 ia to be put into operation or not. Il do not suppose that baseball play | CTS will be debarred from playing II
 their first wear. for they are constraip
 ed by tine Every time of their playini l sea son to be in college six months be
 fore they get a chance to parttctpaT
 in an Intercollegiate match. and that T
 iong enough. But on football the ploy
 will fall with telling force, if the sruf
 Wear before last the amendment wa
 voted down g to ', last year 1t lost oti again 8 to 1. but this year the vote
 apt to be s to 4. just the other wa
 Nashville papers seem to think Tee | is In favor of the rule. Tech is--i tbere Ia no other way to stop Rprofes | sionaiism--but only in that event. an she is quite likely to be found votin | with Vanderbilt -and aSewanee- agains | the measure as for 1T
 The rule would indeed hurt Tech yer ] ! much. and can see how 1t will damag Vanderbilt and Sewanee also. sine Michigan, Rose, Polytechnic. Texas. tn Navy, the Indians. and Virginia do nc