Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
JACKETS ONLY
HOPE WILL BE
IN OPEN PLAYS
Red and Black Better Team at
Straight Game-LOng Runs
May Beat AthenianS,
BY InniS Brown.
Famous Football O+ficiai.l

settled that the Georgia-Tech foot
bail game is to be a reality Fur
thermore. said reality will develop
within 3 very short time. or 70 he
exact on Saturday afternoon at
Grant Park. q preponderance of evil
dence having been submitted in
Techs favor
The gentleman who in the dim
past arose to remark that certain
contest was sure to ne some game
might again step forth very timely
and reiterate his sentiments refer
ring to the coming conflict 1t 10
doubtful whether the Red and Black
and the Orange and White ever
faced a football battle on more equal
terms.
So far the two teams have not had
a common focman, although their
schedules call for games with the
same teams in two cases. Georgia
has met and defeated Clemson. while
Ten has yet TO meet the Carolina
TigeN The Jackets have lost hon
orably\o Auburn, while Georgia is
slated to tackle the Plalnsmen In
little more than a week.
Each team has suffered defeat
once Georgia went down before the
rushes of Virginia, This was rather
TO be expected since the Nirginians
this year have team that recalls
the old days OF "Bev" Pollard Ham
mond johnson and others. Also
Auburn has a regular team. The
men from the grand old State OF Al
ALBANIA carry with them, safely
packed away i'm their knapsack, de
cidedlv the best chance of any team
in Dixie to land premier honors, I'M
less the team from Athens can cut
them down.
Hence the statement that Tech lost
honorably to Auburn.
IRON the above 1t may be noted
i that but little dope arising from
comparative scores may be had. Up
10 the Auburn game Tech was com
ING along nicely. showing better In
each successive game. And IL may
also be said that their showing
against Auburn was not such that
il might be considered any serious
break in their Development for we
ask permission to state again that
Auburn has n regular team
on the other hand, the Red and
Black i'm their last two games out
have not looked quite as good as they
did in their game with Virginia. This,
however. may be explained by the
fact that in Carolina and Clemson,
they considered that they We're not
going to meet very stiff opposition,
and their standard OF play was there
bv allowed to drop perceptibly In
this connection, 1t may be said that
i'm the last ten minutes Of the Glenn
son game, they were playing in jam
up form and would have been dan
serous against the best in this sec
ton,
However, with us, advance dope on
q Georgia Tech football game is nix,
Mawruss. nix. We have seen these
two come together often enough to
know that when the first whistle
blows any form sheet on past per
formanCes in preceding games Of the
season may prove interesting read
ing from a disinterested standpoint,
hut as a tip on the results of the
melee AT hand would be about as
valuable as perusing the flamboyant
announcement Of new corn cure.
[ HENCE we may as well get down to
the undeniable facts dealing with
The assets Of the two teams. Zach
squad has enough available material
10 switch its lineup with frequen-
cy, thereby eliminating any man for
man comparison However there
are several who are likely to draw
practically continuous assignments
and all OF these acre distinctly known
quantities
on the Georgia squad there are
McWhorter, Henderson. Conkliu, De
laperriere, Malone and Paddock. All
of these have met the Jackets before
and may therefore be regarded as
veterans.
We are betraying no secret when