Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-27
NEEGG
re CULA TON
IN SOUTH
By Cole Morgan.

~ VERY spring, when the base.
ball season opens, some CITY
in every league has flag
raising. The league pennant, won
the season before. is flung to the
breeze. and the fans hurrah.
Why can't Southern colleges
award football pennant and have
a football pennant- raising on soma
gridiron each fall?
Which is by way OF again intro
ducing the suggestion that South
ern colleges. through the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic association.
decide on some definite and thor
oughly competent method of deter
mining the Southern football cham
pionship each season.
Another Tie Results.
This year there is a repetition Of
what has taken place a good many
seasons in the past-two teams
claiming the championship and
each of them just as strong an
argument for it as the other.
Vanderbilt ana Auburn have nut
it over their opponents this sea-
son, and last Saturday Vanderbilt
and Auburn tied. No individual or
organization has the authority to
render a decision declaring either
the real champion, though there are
any number of self constituted au-
thorities that will assume the task.
The S. 1. A. a. could lay down a
few more rules and regulations
governing intercollegiate football in
the South that would make the
championship a definite fact rather
than a mooted question.
Must Regulate Schedules.
Regulation of schedules will held
bring this about. Restrictions as
to what teams S. I. A. A. elevens
could meet also would apply. And
such restrictions would tend TO
strengthen the S. I. A. A. by bring
ing in good colleges that now are
out Of the association, yet play as
ISOLATION teams.
The football playing season
preliminary and regular-covers
nine to ten playing dates between
the latter part of September and
Thanksgiving day Every team is
going reasonably strong by the sec
ond Saturday in October. Includ-
ing that date, there are seven Sat
urdays, and Thanksgiving day left
in the season. Every team that is
on its mettle can stand eight good
games, after a preliminary or SO.
S. I. A. A. teams should be pro
hibited from playing any teams IN
the South but S. l. a. A. colleges
during that eight-game period
That would prevent team MAX
ing UP 4 schedule of weak games
for the first half Of the season, to
permit it to go into three or four
stiff games toward the last, in SUI
perior condition, against teams that
had been playing stiff ball all sea-
son and were handicapped accord
ingly.
Could Form Two Classes.
1t is an undisputed fact that
about half the S. l. A. \. colleges
each season turn out f1rst-clas5
football eleVens and the other half
are second raters. The 5. /. A. A.
could create two divisions: Class
A and Glass b, separating the as
ISOLATION teams according to tier
playing ability.
During the eight game period II
could require class A teams to pia!
none other in the South but teams
of its own class. This would pus
all on a reasonably equal BASIS
OF course, this is not intended TO
prevent a team like Vanderbilt lro"
going out of the South to meet
teams like Princeton, Harvard, Car
Isle and Navy.
1t would be up to the 5. ]. A. A
to devise rules that would enap7
the executive committee to declare
the championship, based on the sea-
sons records.