The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-11-18
Mutt Speaks for Fisk.

The annual foot ball game between
Fisk and Meharry on Thanksgiving
day is being looked forward to with
great interest by our citizens here.
The game has so long been associated
with Thanksgiving day until it occu-
pies place in it as prominent as
the Southern dinner with its proven
bal turkey.
1t is the game of games, for nearly
everyone is partisan and follower
of either Fisk or Meharry, and hence
there is very keen friendly rivalry
existing between them, comparable
only to that between Vanderbilt and
Sewanee or Yale and Harvard.
4 And so each year the trainers Of
both schools carefully prepare their
teams for this day, starting off with
the rudimentary principles of tackling
and punting, teaching the men the
feel of the ball, then finally sending
them forth against other schools,
thereby selecting the wheat from the
chaff and changing less useful for
more useful methods OF play and cor
/ recting the defects all along the line
I Both teams have been handicapped
in the early season this year by the
/ lack of professional coachers. But
they are now under the instruction of
men who know the very latest style
of play and who teach 1t.
Roth of the home teams have de-
feated visiting schools whose reputa-
ton as gridiron warriors needs no
Comment. Meharry downed Tuskegee
go. A. B. G. was beaten for the first
time in six years by Fisk 1910. Now
Tuskegee tied Talledega 90; while A.
B. G, beat Talledega 22-o. On paper,
then, Fisk would appear stronger. But
/ it must be borne in mind that when
Meharry met Tuskegee, the needles
had been under the training of coach
Ransom for only a week, while the
F'isk-A. B. c. game was played after
Fisk had had two weeks of coaching.
Both teams this year have on them
veterans of wide reputation. Take
King, Upshaw, Merchant, of Howard:
Payne and Kindle on the one side for
Fisk and compare them with Kenne-
Idy, Scott, West, Zuber and Dixon, OF
Meharry, and the fan has proposition
which will call for deep thinking.
The weight of the two teams will be
nearer the same than ever before Me-
harry probably having the call on
Fisk by about pounds per man. To
offset tnis Fisk must be conceded to
have the swiftest back field of the
two and as well-balanced pair of
ends as found in Negro schools.
Yet, Meharry has line that has a
shade on that of Fisk, and In West
an end Of excellent calbre. So, there
you are. The game then must resolve it.
self into contest Of speed and brain.
For in nearly all things do the teams
seem to balance and so science and
endurance must be the means by
which the victory is won.
One more thing to be considered by
the man who follows the dope, did
it ever occur to you that for the last
eight years the victory has alternated
between the two schools, Fisk win
ming one year, Meharry the next, then
Fisk, then Meharry? Well, Fisk lost
last year and according to past his
| to'ythis is the year she is due to win.
Watch that
One thing that is sure and certain.
and that is every spectator of the
! 1910 game is going to get his full
moneys worth Of excitement from
lkiok-off' until time-out SO buy your
colors, get a horn, choose your girl,
purchase two tickets and get in line
to see one of the prettiest games in
the history of the two schools.
Glean2 Yes. it will be clean, for
Meharry and Fisk, both, are exponents
of clean, gentlemanly foot ball, and