Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-04
BY Percy H. Whiting.

%HEY may all deny it until
they are bright pink In the
face, but out at Tech, or else
where among the friends of Tech
they are making plans for foot
ball team next fall-a real team, a
big team Such plans have not
been made since the last time
Coach Heisman signed a fve-year
contract. The fall after that hap
pened there was more material at
Tech than you could shake a stick
at. Mere coincidence no doubt,
but a fortunate one for the Yellow
Jackets.
As to the exact plans-welI. they
are secret
They have issued formal denial
of the "cinch course" rumor. Very
well, that means that all the play
ers who go there will have to COM
bine scholastic genius with real
athletic ability.
But for one thing they have a
system of student table waiters-a
system that may prove useful 1t
was inaugurated last year, and will
be continued
Now, nothing is known Of the
Tech plans, but II has been the
history of these student table wait
er jobs that they have ever and
anon attracted a lot of good ath-
letes. Also sheer coincidence. of
course
Let 1t not be supposed that any
one even hints that Tech will go
outside the rules in getting up ma
terial. No chance of it. The men
behind the Tech team-Coach Heis-
man, Graduate Manager Randle and
the rest are above suspicion. More
than that, the college authorities
are wide awake and will let moth
ing happen in an athletic way that
is not entirely to the credit of the
school
The point is that there are a
thousand ways to make it easy for
athletes to get through a college.
ways that do not conflict with any
rule on the books, ways that may
prove useful at Tech, just as they
are useful at a dozen other S. l. \.
\. colleges every season.
For instance, a deserving man
wants a college education. The time
is past when he is likely to get a
cash offer. But il is possible to
offer him a position that will
make it comparatively easy to work
his way through college. So long
as the man does an amount of work
that is a fair equivalent for the
money he receives, all is well, When
he does less work, things look bad.
And at many an s. l. A. A. college
today good athletes are coming by
money mighty easily
However. there will never be any
of this at Tech-not so long as
Messrs. Matheson, Randle and
Heisman are on their present jobs.
But. II rumor is to be believed.
there viii be an effort made to use
every legitimate means to round up
some corking football talent at
Tech next fall
Tech men feel that the Jackets
are about due to beat Georgia.
They will spare no pains to accom-
plish the result.
out at Tech there is guarded
talk of coalition of alumni and
friends--of a quiet meeting or two
at the Capital City club-mere
talk of course. But If a fine tooth
combing Of prep schools campaign
and If the offering of every leglti-
mate help to deserving boys who
want to get a college education,
and il the utilizing of every legiti-
mate and according to the s. |. 4.
A. lawsD legal method Of getting
players will assist any look out for
Tech next fan,
TWELVE men and boys died this
year as the more or less direct
result Of football injuries. As far
as can be learned, no college player
and tpAII tr4y1ng