Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-15
Bv Percy II. Whiting.

7 Y mas not olleH Idlleh " tiS lot
Of Atlanta football fans to
have a decisive football game
PLAYED within the confines of To-
ca park. The Tech team has not
heen in the championship running
FOR years and it has been years
since Georgia has played any team
but Tech in Atlanta.
This year, however, Georgia is
slated to meet Vanderbilt on Sat
urdav at Ponce DeLeon park and
the game should be one of the Ave
mr. six decisive struggles of the sea-
son in Dixie.
Georgia most certainly has
chance to beat Vanderbilt And
the team that beats Vanderbilt
has the championship cinched
OF course. Auburn, always a
contender, and Sewanee. appar-
emily strong this year, must be
counted on. But Georgia should
he able to take the number of
either. And at the same time
neither appears to have much
chance with Vanderbilt.
It's All Up to Georgia.
Apparently if the Commodores
are to be trimmed by a s. /. A. A.
team this year it will have to be
Georgia, and the trimming will
have TO be done Saturday after
noon AT Ponce DeLeon ball park.
There are a lot Of folks in the
Vanderbilt is never to be beaten
that the Commodores have taken
the Lead. always to hold it.
OF course. this is ridiculous No
team ever grew so strong that it
was not trimmed in due time
Michigan. Yale, Virginia are strik-
ing examples.
This may be Vanderbilt's year to
60 down.
Certainly the Tennesseeans have
nothing on the GeOrgians save eX-
perience This is tremendous
advantage, truly. But it is not an
bh ~ NJ ilclullIlS uIit. 40 ltdi ever
won on experience alone,
Any way you figure it-and there
are plenty of ways-it will be a
good game and a decisive game. 1t
will mean more to the Georgia men
n they can win than any game
played in years and years, for it
means that the Red and Black is
back in the lead again and strong
enough TO meet the strongest-an
conquer.
Don't Take It Seriously.
The press dispatches sent out
from Nashville, to the effect that
Vanderbilt has a look-in on the
championship of the country at
football are not to be taken too
literally. It is not at all likely that
such stuff represents the opinion Of
Vanderbilt PLAYERS or coaches.
Vanderbilt has had the best team
In the :. l. A. A. for several years.
j has been able, by superhuman
Efforts. To tie Yale and Anna polls.
Il has never been able to trim
Michigan, even in the years Of the
Wolverines weakness.
If the Commodores get svelled
u1 with any of that sort of stuff,
they are likely to fall easy prey to
the first team that gives them
7gnt That has ever been a Com
modore weakness. Vanderbilt men
remember with a pang of disgust
the silly parade before a Sewanee
game one fall not so many years
ago and the terrible threats OF what
the COmmodores were going to do
In Sewanee-and with a mingled
feeling Of regret at the showing
9nd Of pleasure at the just retrI-
hutton, they recall what really hap
pended.
II the COmmodoreS come to At
Ianta with any hunch that they are
coming national champions and
that they are going to have soft
time with Georgia, they are likely
10 he trimmed, and trimmed good
and proper, The Cunningham
team is sure TO have a lot of power
and drive to it, and 1t is certain to
play its hardest against Wander
hUt.
committee Of Vanderbilt men,
Of which Hamilton Douglas. Jr., is
'Ha1rman and of which Innis
Brown a former Vanderbilt foot
ball captain, is a member. is work
ma with the Georgia athletic au-
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