Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-20
COACH HE|S|NAN
REVIEWS LAS
BIC BAT TIES
Believes Vandy Would Have Held
Auburn Even if Tom Brown
Had Played in Game.
By j. w. Heisman.

IN the TWO Dig southern gaines
last saturday the favorite teams
i won in both matches. have al
-ao4, discussed the Georgia VS.. Iech
ro,ns so have nothing further here 10
saw on that score. ,----..,, ,,..o.
vanderbilt held Auburn much closer
.ban or most anybody else thougnt
,Ssv would. Auburn let down a OIL
in hs- play through overconhdence-
that besetting sin of all athletic teams,
Willie Vanderbilt played almost pet
,ar than she knew how in her agon-
lied desperation.
careful analysis of the game
IVA that NewelPs expected great
work on offense was almost nuullleI
Nv, rhe superb defensive work OF
Skies. If the Auburn formation calIeo
far Newell to line up on the right
side, Skies, backing up the me, moVeQ
ovar IN the left opposite Newell; II
~ f,rn,ation required Newell on the
5esr --hv the station dead opposite
~ him was good enough for Skies;
and in that manner he stayed with
Newell the Hvelong afternoon and
bronght him to earth more times than
q sore with no gain whatever
Vanderbilt fought so hard and well
that has Tom Brown been in the
game the Commodores might nave
6een able to stall Auburn off to tie;
though I don't imagine they could
ave won. for it does not appear they
ever threatened Auburn's goal except
nm the one occasion when they gol
away for a long run on forward
mass which play scored their lone
touchdown.
DUT II Vanderbilt was able to stop
ID Newell, it did not follow that
they could not halt Auburn's quartet
Of fullbacks; and this brings me to
what even the inexpert public are
beginning 10 find out-that in TINS
day and time a high grade football
team is not an assemblage of eleven
PLAYERS for eleven positions, but a
collection Of at least twenty two stars
for eleven places; and if you nave
still more than twenty-five you nave
iust that much better team.
That WAS where Auburn was for
tunate, although sensible as well, 10Y
sometimes a college has large num-
Der of stars, but does not know how
TO alternate them and thus loses the
benefit Of their combined energies
and abilities.
l also stop to remark that in these
days Of finest strategy the first line
up Of a team that goes into game
is not necessarily its best Sometime
good players are held out for Whhe
to let them see how the play IS GO
ing on from the side lines. AS IN
watching a game of checkers or chess
one often sees more openings as
spectator than Go the actual contest
ants
PLAYERS sometimes chafe under re-
straints Of this character, because the
old-tlme idea that the men who open
the game are the ones who are con-
sidered the regulars" has not yet
been entirely disposed of in the
minds Of all the players the way II
has with the coaches. But sensible
players on the best teams pay no
attention to a detail like that, for
they realize that every move OF the
coaches has a meaning to dehnlte
end
The Auburn victory means, no
doubt, that there will be another
game between Vanderbilt and the
Alabamans in 1914, and doubtless IL
will be held in Birmingham again
It should be as good a game as II
was this year.
r is a little odd that Sewanee,
Alabama and Tennessee should
run so true to form in their seeming
playing strength against each other
SeWanee beats Tennessee by nine
points, and Alabama by three points
"a difference of six. Then Alabama
sails in and beats Tennessee by eX-
actly six points. If the games al
ways went that way the whole world
would go to betting; or rather they
wouldn't because everybody would
be wanting to bet the same way.
MISSISSIPPI A. and NJ. performed
'A miracles to hold L. S. U. down
10 a tie or else the latter has hit the
ehutes. Louisiana's failure to down
the Mississippians must count against
them heavily In their seasons record.
Probably 1t Is true, as Auburn asserts,
that l.. S. U. came to a height and
tanked her all on the game with Don
eales clan Having lost they nave
suffered a slump, both physical ana
mental.
But that is something Alabama new
eT does so Mississippi may safely
sApect to encounter very real ana
I'VE Tartar when these two come to-
setner on Turkey Day.
he game between Sewanee ana
Central Of Kentucky fell through
80 It Is impossible to get inner
me on their doings now until AFTER
me game with Vanderbilt on the
nth. | did think a week ago thal
he Tigers had a trifle the better OF
ne outlook, but since the game OF
laSl Saturday over in Birmingham,
an about to flop over, Any team that
tah hold Auburn by two touchdoWns
" one Is playing real football
AFTER getting away to "A dlsap-
pointing start, the Clemson team
= again indicating my early Judg-
ment II will be recalled that even
Nee suffering a 20-to-0 slaughter at
me hands of Alabama / foretold they
we're not down and out, as most eV-
elyoody supposed; but that they
would come back in manner that
would open reople's optics.
since then they have beaten the
sUong South Carolina team 81 to U.
geo Georgia to a 1S-to15 score
NeorinE more points on them than
sven Virginia or North Carolina
goId), and now has wound up by
"-A4ng Che hide off Mercer. In TINS