The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24
COACH COPE ATTENDS AUBURN
VANDERBILT GAME AND
TALKS INTERESTINGLY OF Sc
WANEE'S POSITION
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BY CHARLES W. GREER
Coach Cope of the sewanee Tigers vas
in Birmingham yesterday where he came
to get line on the Vanderbilt commo-
dores whom his team meets in Nashville
on Thanksgiving.
Mr.. Cope considers that Sewanee has a
good chance to mix things in thoroughly
satisfactorily manner with MeGugin's
Commodores,
vanderbilt and sewanee viii be fish,-
ing for the championship of the south.
next Saturday you can depend upon
is being pulled off between Auburn and
Vanderbilt today but tomorrow only
Vanderbilt and sewanee will he contend
ders.
Sewanees Position
Il know that many critics consider us
out of the running. because We only tied
Auburn and Alabama. Right here | would
like to explain sewanee's position. Every
body will tell you that Sewanee plays
hundred per cent better ball against VAN
derbilt than against other Southern teams.
That's true and it is very simply ex-
planned. sewanee works the entire sea-
/
satisfied to tie or beat by low score
any other team in the south. OF course
We don't want to be beaten But our
game is on Thanksgiving. To see Sewanee
work against Vanderbilt and compare
their play then with that against other
southern colleges, the two teams do not
appear to be abe same We save every
thing for the Commodores and we gem
orally give pretty good account Of our
selves. Now Alabama and Georgia can
claim call on the championship Just as
much as sewanee if they want to. That
does not bother us. However they must
remember that they have been licked and
we haven't"
What do you think of the Dalton con-
troversy?" ventured the AgeHerald e
porter
The Dalton Matter
well" replied the Tiger chieftain. ITS
hard to say. If Dalton was Ineligible by
the rule said to apply to his case, Sc
vance has no kick coming. We can use
him next year. However, I don't think
that it was right to accept his eligibility
slip and to allow him to play until 20 two
|
inform us that he was ineligible. That
was all the notice we received. Until TWO
days priors to our game with Tennessee
| Dalton had been member of the Tiger
team and had played regularly. Suddenly
he was found to be Ineligible.
I'VE are facing pretty much the same
proposition in regard to Meek added
Mr.. Cope Meek has recently been de-
olared ineligible because he attended
Union college in 1903 While there he was
| in the preparatory department. Investi-
cation showed that the Union then was
not even ranked as college, and yet
he is made Ineligible
why don't you appeal to Mr.. Dudley?'
he was asked.
I'VE have appealed not only to Mr.
! Dudley but to every vice president OF
| the district Once they tell us he is Gig
ihle and then they telegraph us that they
are mistaken and that he can't compete
I've given up any hope of playing lin.
IN regard TO the Dalton controversy,
said the reporter, Mr. Dudley says that
he knows absolutely nothing about the
matter. What do you think of that atti-
tude?
IF Mr. Dudley knows nothing about it
I it's because he does not want TO know
about It," was the reply.
Little Trouble from Vandy
However" he added. "sewanee re-
| oeives little trouble from Vanderbilt.
It's the other colleges who seem TO have
It in for us. That is thing that | cant
| understand. 1t would seem that sporting
men over the south would appreciate
] the handicap under which the Tigers have
to work and be ready to give them the
| right side of everything. This season we
have not met a single team which was
not drawn from a college of from 500 to
1900 students. while we have bet 10 on
the mountain this year. We were weak last
season, and people can't understand why
we have been able to come back strong
this year
There's no use talking we have caught
il on every occasion this year. Presi-
dent Ayres -of Tennessee has declared two
of our men to be ineligible, in Georgia
we were accused of having ringers, and
in Birmingham they accused us of play
ing a dirty game.
| why one Georgia paper went so far
as to declare that | went to New York
to get one of our players, and vet ] can
state positively that that boy is a native
Tenressean and that he attended the sang
preparatory school as did Tom Brown Of
Vanderbilt.
About Jones' Injury
Relative to Gillespie's hurdling In the
game with Alabama. I would like to say
in the first place that II was not Giles
pie who was hurdling. Neither was it
Sheldon. 1t was Kid Hammond. Further
more Jones Of Alabama Yves injured In
bursting interference. He dived under the
Interference and Sheldons heel bit him
| liz the face as he fell Hammond who
was penalized for hurdling was not in
| the game at the time.
Besides hurdling is not dirty playing.
It's against the rules, but so Is II against
the rules to make a flying tackle, TO
be offside. And yet when player makes
a flying tackle or IS off-side. although his
team Is penalzed he is not playing dirty
football.
With Coach cope was Captain GiIlem
Of the Tigers Who came with his coach to
i lclnl. the H.nrL Of the Coy M area