Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
Rv Percy II. Whiting.

lost on a f1uke. SeWanee
L and Georgia tied. Tech and
,.,rsia meet next Saturday at
Iorre DeLeon park. Figure 1t out
,.ourself Win it be SOME
rloTRALL GAME? Well, from
-,fs angle it looks suspiciously like
=. SOME GAME, INDEED.
IF seems foolhardy, considering
t,5ividual ability, weight, speed
ar- star players, to say that Tech
-. in the same class with Georgia.
man who studied the two teams
would say that Georgia would de-
fear Tech by three touchdowns. But
,,bo7v who has followed the Tech
team Of late believes that Georgia
,,f,r do it-least of all Georgia men.
Even the most rabid admit that it
is going to be mighty close.
The Georgia team is good-it is
made up of fine individual players,
II is well drilled. it will be in per-
feet condition for the Tech game.
on mere poundage it ought to beat
the Tech team. And the players
Of form will gamble that way, and
nobody blames them.
The fact Is, though. that Tech is
going to he about as dangerous an
opponent as Georgia cares to tao
lie.
THE reason you can't figure the
Tech team is that it so often
plays better than it knows how.
And it's made up Of the gamest,
scrappiest little Turks that ever
got out in football toys and
scratched and snarled and kicked
and clawed their way along. In
that game with Sewanee Saturday
nothing comparable with their vi
cous charging has ever been seen.
of course. there has been harder
charging-but never by team that
was outweighed twelve pounds to
the man and beaten at that, even
though on a fiuke.
It's easy enough to make a good
showing when you are winning and
when you have it on your oppo-
nest in strength, weight and speed.
But II takes real native courage to
keep right on scrapping after you
are beaten-and beaten by a
stronger. heavier, swifter team.
Those Jackets didn't know they
were beaten. On the last play be-
fore the last whistle blew they
We're charging just as hard as they
had been at the start.
Now, when a team is as game
as this and as resourceful as the
Heisman teams always are there is
no telling what 1t may do.
You can figure that the Georgia
team will be in top trim for the
TccA game. You can figure also
that they will play their hardest
and best in that game. SO natural
iy there is every chance they will
win.
They will, however find them
selves playing against corking
football team. and they will be
ludeiy jostled before the pickering
is complied.
THE Vanderbilt Harvard game
Saturday is a bit of d disap-
pointment, blessed if it isn't. The
'ommodores made a corking show
ing But if they could have gone
through with all the men in condi-
ton instead OF losing they might
easily nave won. The fact that
captain Hardage, the most bril-
"aht OF Southern backs and the man
whose throws were counted on to
accomplish the success of tho
Vanderbilt forward passes. was
injured and was forced to retire
carry IN the game ruined every
lhlng' a half dozen of the Com
u'dofes We're out of condition. If
they hadn't been, there would be
no excuses necessary. AS it was, a
TO score wasn't half had, even if
"endIe and Brickley didn't play.
Isl a word of friendly sugges-
ton to the Tech and Georgia
athletic authorities: Don't let the
.o''ers get on the field before. dur
'"s or after Saturdays game. Don't
ro N-unless you gentlemen are
"eeh Tor a ruction that will be a
classic. q"
g-t $780,
Last Year Auburn and Tech men
,""si'a in what nearly developed
"'' d riot. And there wasn't a