Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-31
BY j. W. Heisman.

| ~LASS is beginning to tell in the
~ games between the Southern
college teams, and 1t is becom-
ing more and more clear as the days
go by that the supremacy which most
| of the best teams have enjoyed for
the past three or four years is to be
| maintained in 1913.
While Mississippi a. & NJ. is hard
ty as strong this year as it has been
forsthe preceding four or five seasons
yet | venture to say not even Auburn
itself was prepared for the splendid
victory of "a to that its team rolled
up against A. & M The Auburnites
seemed to strike their stride from the
very beginning of the season, and
have thus far gone along without a
hitch or skip, Right now | ven
ture to suggest that the Orange and
Blue squad is the smoothest working
machine in Dixie. and if it keeps on a
it's present gait it is going to be, as
] thought from the first, the team TO
haul down the bunting.
VERY early in the season l limited
that Auburn might prove an even
more formidable contender for cham
pionship honors than the Commo-
dores, which statement was consii-
cred quite extraVagant at the time;
but recent events begin to bear me
out To be sure, we all expected
Michigan would defeat Vanderbilt, b II
we were hardly prepared for the score
that came over the wires.
McGugin has a wonderful quartet
of players in the two Browns, Morgan
and Skies, but that let's the Vanderbilt
team out for this year, and no eleven
can raise 80 very much of fuss with
only four good men out. Of eleven on
the team.
Tech has already found out the
same thing-that one or even a cou-
pie of swallows don't make a sum-
mer, and to me it is, and has been. no
secret that the new material at Van
derbilt this year has not been on a
par with what they have secured IN
the past. Had Cody been eligible, il
would have made considera BILE differ
ence.
However, l still believe that Van
derbilt is going to show world Of
fight and take a lot of pummeling be-
fore any team In the South will make
il knucNle under l do not believe
that the score Of SO to against it
adequately represents the day-in-
and -day-out strength of the Com
modores. Michigan was smarting un-
before at the hands of the Michigan
Aggies, while that same game gave
Vanderbilt a little too much hope.
These things cut a wide swath.
EVERYBODY tells how very simple
IL was the style of play exhibited Dy
Virginia against Georgia last Satur-
day. Had they no other system OF
play than the one they here showed?
IL !.
though they would have sprung II II
they had, for 1t appears that the Red
and Black crowded them to the utter
most, not only in the first quarter or
half, but almost throughout the entire
contest. It's all well enough to save
up for another and later foe, but when
you're about to be licked right now
you generally attend to the thing at
hand and let the later affair Jake care
Any way you look at 1t. though,
Georgia did exceptionally we'll. and Il
looks now as though it were going
to give Auburn about as stiff a fight
as will Vanderbilt. 1t is a pity Geor-
gia plays neither Sewanee nor Van
derbilt this year and a pity that Au-
burn does not meet Sewanee. These
would all make jim dandy games.
That McWhorter's long runs in the
past have not been mere accidents
as some would have US believe-that
young man amply demonstrated
against the Nirginians, When he's
feeling right and his team is playing
ball, he can and does get away from
the very best of them. In the past
we may have thought there must
have been something decidedly off
color in the tacklinc of the South
ern teams OF this section that they
have been quite unable to put Bon
down for keeps, but when as big ana
fine and experienced a team as that
of Virginia also comes down here and
fails to flop this remarkable Young
man we are forced 10 the belief that
the fault is not in ourselves, dear
Brutus, but in the stoCky Athenian.
COME few are disappointed in that
~ Sewanee did not travel over 1000
miles and bring back a scalp with
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