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

Lot ON a fluke. SeWanee
/ AVID Georgia tied. Tech and
Georgia meet next SATURDAY. at
49, nl7 nsLeon park. Figure it out
...r~self. Win it be SOME
TI,loTBALL GAME? Well, from
'... rs.s /. looks suspiciously like
some GAME, INDEED.
..sr.s foolhardy, considering
..5.r.sYs5 ability, weight, speed
All star players, to say that Teen
.:.. +hs same class with Georgia.
nam who studied the two teams
.,,.l7 say that Georgia would de-
f.+ Tech by three touchdowns. But
..,,7v who has followed the Tech
nam Of late believes that Georgia
,..,r III, ir-least of all Georgia men.
r7,-ar ,ra most rabid admit that it
is going to be mighty close.
The Georgia team is good-it is
,,s5. ND of fine individual players,
+, fs well drilled. it will be in per-
ferr condition for the Tech game.
ON mere poundage it ought to beat
-ha Tech team. And the players
Of form will gamble that way and
nobody blames them.
The fact is, though, that Tech is
soing to be about as dangerous an
opponent as Georgia cares to tao
hle.
THE reason you can't figure the
Tech team is that it so often
pIays better than it knows how.
And its made up of the gamest,
srrappiest little Turks that ever
got out in football togs and
scratched and snarled and kicked
and cIawed their way along. In
that game with Sewanee Saturday
nothing comparable with their vi
cious charging has ever been seen.
Of course. there has been harder
charging -but never by a team that
was outWeighed twelve pounds to
the man and beaten at that, even
though on a tluke.
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 it 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
We're beaten. On the last play be-
fore the last whistle blew they
were 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
17 telling what it may do.
You can cure that the Georgia
team v Doe in top trim for the
Tech 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 viii, however, find them
selves PLAY g against corking
football team. .r' they will be
ludely jostled befor. 80 pickering
is complied.
ME Vanderbilt Harvard game
Saturday is a bit of disap-
continent blessed if it isn't. The
'ommodores made a corking show
hs' But if they could have gone
through with all the men in condi-
Hon instead of losing they might
easily haye won. The fact that
.apjain Hardage. the most bril-
'4At OF Southern backs and the man
whose throws We're counted on to
accomplish the success of tho
Vanderbilt forward passes was
injured and was forced to retire
'"'! III the game ruined every
l,'InS' \ half dozen of the Com
I'ooofeS We're out of condition. If
'Aey hadn't been, there would he
no excuses necessary. As it was. a
TO score wasn't half had. even If
"ehaIe and Briclley didn't plav
IS
ISL a word of friendly sugges-
uon to the Tech and Georgia
annette authorities: Don't let the
I Ioo's.S get on the field before, dur
ing or after Saturdays game. Don't
Wv unless you gentlemen arc
N5en Tor ruction that will be a
.., .','S' Year Auburn and Tech men
.1Hs.ed in what nearly develoned
''o d riot. And there wasn't =