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

Of Atlanta football fans to
\ have a decisive football game
p'aved within the confines of a To-
cal park The Tech team has not
been in the championship running
for years and il has been years
since Georgia has played any team
hut Tech in Atlanta.
This year, however, Georgia is
slated to meet Vanderbilt on Sat
urday at Ponce DeLeon park and
the game should be one, of the five
mr. six decisive strugglesAof the sea-
son in Dixie.
Georgia most certainly has a
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
be 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 S. l. A. A.
team this year it win 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
South who have the notion that
Vanderbilt is never to be beaten
that the Commodop4s 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 Vandea'bilt's year to
g. down.
Certainly the Ten1pe sseeans have
nothing on the Georg1ans save ex-
pprience. This is a tremendous
advantage. truly. But it is not an
overwhelming one. No team ever
. won on experience Atone
Any way you figure it-and there
are plenty of way;ss-it will be a
good game and a decisive game. 1t
will mean more TO the Georgia men
II 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-and
conquer.
Don't Take IL Seriously.
The press dispatches sent out
from Nashville, to the effect that
Vanderbilt has a 1ook-in on the
championship of the country at
football, are not 10 be taken too
literally. 1t is not at all likely that
such CUFF represents the opinion Of
Vanderbilt players or coaches.
In the S. |. A. A. for several years.
1t has been able, by superhuman
efforts, to tie Yale and Annapolis.
1t has never been able to trim
Michigan, even in. the years of the
Wolverines weakness.
If the Commodores get swelIed
up with any of that sort OF stuff,
they are likely to fall easy prey to
the first team that gives them a
hsht. 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
10 Sewanee-snd with a mingled
feeling of regret at the showing
and OF pleasure at the just retrI-
button. they recall what really hap
pended.
If the Commodores come to At
Ianta with any h0lnch that they are
coming national champions and
mat they are going to have a soft
Time with Georgia, they are likely
10 be trimmed, and trimmed good
and proper The Cunningham
Team is sure 10 have a lot of power
and drive to it, and it is certain to
play its hardest against Wander
hir.
A committee OF Vanderbilt men,
OF which Hamilton Douglas, Jr., is
chairman and OF which Innis
Brown, a former Vanderbilt foot
'aI captain, is member, is work
ing with the Georgia athletic au-
'aorities in preparing for the game.