Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-15
HARD LUCK HAS
HANDED VANDY
HOT TIME

TASHN LILLE. En- N, NOV. 10.
" That Vanderbilt lost two of
the greatest battles of it's ca
reer by sheer hard luck is admitted
by followers of the victorious teams
on these occasions. In 1906, the
Commodores fairly Walloped the
life out Of Fielding Yost's MiChi-
ganders, yet the score went 10 to 4
against them. Then at Cambridge
last Saturday there was a fierce
combination Of the fates trumpet
up against the Southerners who
had travelled 1900 miles to battle
with the Crimson clan
In the gymnasium at Michigan in
1906, just after the game Yost
said well, you fellows did have a
hard break of the luck and We
were fortunate in getting away
with the game"
Harvards graduate manager to-
ward the close of the fourth pc
riod Of last Saturdays game said to
DIR. Owsley Manner: IF your man
Hardage hadn't been hurt l think
the score would have been a tie.
You had hard luck, sure
OF course, hard luck counts. and
there isn't any use trying to turn
loose a lot of sob stuff. yet 1t is
certainly interesting to note the
specific instances of tough fortune
which lost the Southern champions
two big contests
Hard Luck in Big 1906 Game.
All through the 1906 Michigan
game Vanderbilt got a bad break
of the luck but here is what killed
them dead. Up TO the time of that
game Bob Blake had kicked three
fourths Of the field goals attempted
yet against the Wolverines he
missed five and kicked one, and
all of them were short and not
from difficult angles. The reason
of his failure was that he had to
kick from turf instead of ground
dirt heaps as he did on his own
field.
Another play in this game which
may never be repeated came about
this way: 1t was Vanderbilt's ball
on her own 45-yard line. John
Craig was called and. aided by
beautiful interference, passed every
man but the quarterback. Just be-
fore the quarter, Chorn, got to him
Craig's own guard came down the
field at top speed to hit the Mich
igan tackler. Craig lodged the
Michigan man. but in the mean
time Choru had passed on and at
just the wrong momen Craig
whirled into Choru and fell. Be
fore he could get UP a Michigan
man was on him and q sure chance
ror a touchdown was lost.
Later in that same game Van
derbilt received punt on her own
liftecn-yard line, from which Cos
ten ran it back ten yards. Then
the Commodores made a forced
march which landed the ball one
foot from the Michigan goal line
and first down. In his eagerness
to open up the hole and sew up the
game, Stein Stone made a bad pass
to Costen The ball rolled over the
goal line and a Michigan man fell
on it, just as Manner came romping
through the hole which Stone had
made.
Same Hoodoo at Harvard.
Now, take the Vanderbilt Har-
ward game as an example of
wretched luck. Just at the time
his physical efforts and his moral
support were most needed Captain
Lewie Hardage received an injury
TO his ankle which put him out for
keeps. Shortly after that Harvard
made her only touchdown. which
was made possible by an adverse
decision OF the referee, giving Har-
ward fifteen yards, when no penalty
should have been assessed. The
penalty was given for alleged in
reference with fair catch. YET
Graustein, the man who caught the
punt, actually ran seven yards be-.
fore Tom Brown got him, ana the
rules say two steps is enough after