Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-08
Both Teams in Good Shape for
Game Which Eliminates One
From Championship.
Continued From Page I.

next Saturday Vanderbilt is OPP
posed to the ordinary Tennessee team.
But right here in Atlanta, Tech and
Auburn face each other and each
coach, each player, each member of
the student body, each alumnus
knows that Tech must win or Au-
burn must win to-day for chance at
the glory Of a championship.
Wherefore the prediction that the
fur win fly, the gore viii gush, and
their will be untold glory and ad-
vancement for the warriors who win.
Atlanta has long realized the i'm
portance of the struggle. And At
lanta has beer preparing for it ac-
cordingly. Weather Forecaster Won
Hermann to-day furnished a dun
sky and a gloomy outlook but wealth
er couldn't halt the crowd.
Certain 1t is that If these conditions
continue until Referee Innis Brown
sounds the whistle that sends the OPP
posing teams into tactics, Grant Field
will hold its record throng.
There are reasons for this throng.
Tech. after many winters of discon-
tent. sees its first opportunity for a
championship of both Georgia and
DiXieland. Auburn, long overshad
owed by the power of McGugins ma
chime, again sees chance 10 put the
Orange and Blue at the top of the
Souths pennant pole--if they had
such things in football.
Tech win certainly be out en- masse.
Auburn has big loyal body Of alumni
here. They will be present. Georgia
is interested to a white-hot degree in
the battle, for Georgia must defeat
both Tech and Auburn before Cum
pingham's men can lay claims to a
championship. In short. everybody in
Atlanta that isn't in Jail Will in all
likelihood witness the pickering.
Auburn Odds-On FaVorite.
Now about this pickering. It's a
hard thing to dope Auburn is be-
yond question an odds-on taVorite,
but it is hard to imagine how team
that played with the brilliancy and
drive that Tech did last Saturday can
be beaten in this section of cotton
blossoms and moonshine Ticker.
1t is an equally hard thing to inn
agiue a team with the weight and
experience that Auburn has being
beaten here.
Come right down to brass tacks,
though: here we have Auburn and its
ets-tremendous student body, fine
college spirit, veteran coach, Vete-
ran first team, veteran second string
and the heaviest line In the South.
Auburn has not been beaten. But
Auburn has had but one single i'm
pressive victory Clemson was beat
en- by a hollow 20 to 0. l.. S. L. was
nosed out in 10 ARRAY Only in
the Mississippi A. 4 M. game did
Auburn prove a scoring machine,
But how about Tech? The Vel
low Jackets ran wild with Chatta-
nooga And Tech practically stood
still against Florida. Tech was a
bear against Sewanee.
And there you are.
The situation is as simple as the
problem presented by the pons asino-
rum to a schoolboy learning his
Both Coaches Work Slowly.
Take this into consideration, too (;
Mike Donahue, Auburn's coach, has
never attempted big scores until the
November games. He has always
been contented to win by a narrow
II argiu. and work his team to a
point OF perfection for the real
struggles along about Turkey Day.
Just SO with Heisman. He never
intended TO have his team extend
itself until the Sewanee battle He
did 1t then and Atlanta saw the re-
suits.
Now Atlanta knows what Tech can
do when pushed. No one knows any
thing more about Auburn's real power
than Socrates knew Of Rooseveltian
philosophy
Unless Tech takes an early lead
there is little probability that to-
day Will develop any inside facts
as TO Auburns offensive strength
Donahue has the Vanderbilt and
Georgia games ahead Of him, and If
he can win the Jacket battle with
out extending his team. he'll do 1t in
that way
Auburn's powerful line viii I'M
douhtedly be weakened by the alb
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