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

lost on a fiuke. Sewanee
L and Georgia tied. Tech and
cs,rgja meet next Saturday at
usnco DeLeon park. Figure it out
vo,rself. WIN it be SOME
FnOTBALL GAME? Well, from
This angle It looks suspiciously ike
81 SOME GAME, INDEED.
r, seems foolhardy, considering
iodiyfdual ability, weight, speed
and star players, to say that Tech
H.. fr the same class with Georgia.
man who studied the two teams
,yourd say that Georgia would de-
fsat Tech by three touchdowns. But
,.bo5v who has followed the Tech
team Of late believes that Georgia
,,.fri fn it-least of all Georgia men.
Even the most rabid admit that it
is going 10 be mighty close.
The Georgia team is good-it is
made up Of fine individual players,
# 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 be about as dangerous an
opponent as Georgia cares to tao
kie.
THE reason you can't figure the
Tech team is that it so often
DIavs better than it knows how.
And it's made up Of the gamest,
srrappiest 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
cious charging has ever been seen.
of course. there has been harder
chargng-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 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
no telling what 1t may do.
You can figure that the Georgia
team will be in top trim for the
Tech game, You can figure also
that they will play their hardest
and best in that game. SO natural
y there is every chance they will
win.
They will, however, find them
selves playing against corking
football team. and they will be
rudely jostled before the pickering
is completed
ME Vanderbilt Harvard game
Saturday is bit Of disap-
Polntment, blessed if it isn't. The
'ommodores made a corklng show
ing But if they could have gone
through with all the men in condi-
ZION, instead of losing they might
easily have won. The fact that
captain Hardage the most bril-
'4ht 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
'"iY III the game ruined every
Jung \ half dozen of the Com
'IoooFeS We're out of condition. If
"''| hadn't been. there would be
no excuses necessary. AS it was. a
to score wasn't half had. even if
"enaIe and Brickley didn't play.
Isl a word of friendly sueges-
uoh to the Tech and Georgia
1UIeuc authorities: Don't let the
hooters get on the field before dur-
lug OF after Saturdays game. Don't
.o unless you gentlemen are
"'en Tor a ruction that will be a
Last year Auburn and Tech men
,'ngled in what nearly develoned
'''' d riot. And there wasn't a