Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
W HOEVER is responsible for the
. schedule that now confronts

wv schedule that now confronts
the gallant warriors of Geor-
gia Tech is to-day probably wishing
that he had given the calendar the
once over several times before the
November battles were arranged. Had
he done so there is no scintilla Of
doubt that Techs chances for lGeor-
gia and Southern championship
honors would be considerably more
roseate than they are under present
conditions.
Now, this is written in no spirit Of
criticism of the schedule maker. Be
yond doubt, in view Of the lights that
were shining in the merry spring
time, when the articles of warfare
were signed, he arranged the best
program of football amusement that
Atlanta has ever known.
Think of it, Sewanee, Auburn and
Georgia one week after the other No
other Southern football team has ac-
cepted anything like so strenuous. But
other Southern football teams had
championship aspirations. Up to a
week ago Tech had none. Where
fore, the Herculean task put up to
the Yellow Jackets.
The athletic authorities expected
and they had just reason to expect 1t
that when the call for football can
didates was sounded by Coach Heis-
man for the 1913 football season. it
would be responded to by a flock of
youngsters with a wealth of youth
and high spirits, but poverty stricken
when 1t came to a question of weight
and football experience. Such had
been the case for years. There was
no indication that the precedent
would be broken.
Heisman sounded the call. He
sounded it without expecting any
thing in the way Of result. He sound
ed 1t because it's football custom.
Then appeared on the field Mr.. Jim
Preas and Mr. Tolley Johnson, and
Mr.. Gene Patten, and Mr.. Nance, and
Mr. Cushman, and other Misters, more
or less notable.
Luck is coming our way at last, )"
remarked the Tech supporters as the
gentleman remarked when he threw
eleven after a flock OF box cars
THE season wracked its weary way
1 along with the Jackets showing
nothing more extraordinary than a
tomcat sleeping before an open fire
until the Sewanee game. Then the
Jackets began to sting. When the
dust of battle had settled after last
Saturdays ARRAY, experts agered that
the Jackets were as dangerous as a
key full Of angry rattlesnaSes backed
up by tree loaded with painter cats.
The Yellow Jacket became a Cham
pionship Bee and the Bee was buzz
ing.
Then the schedule was piped
The pipers saw nothing but Auburn
and Georgia doubt, the S. /.
A, AS most formidable football ag-
gregations.
1t was enough to make the most
sanguine Tech supporter stop, ponder
and consider.
LERE are a few facts about Au-
burn:
Auburn Is the odds-on favorite for
Southern title honors.
Auburn boasts the heaviest team
south of Messrs. Mason and Dxon's
justly celebrated line, which has been
so effectively wiped out by Gettysburg
speeches and a Democratic admins
tration in Washington.
Auburn possesses an au-veteran
line, an all veteran backfield and an
all veteran list of substitutes practi 70
cally as good as the all-veteran first
squad.
Auburn has a veteran coach, whose
name betokens combativeness and
who has a store Of football knowledge