Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-15

faces her most golden opportunity
when the orange and Blue Of the
Alabama Polys clashes with the Cole
and Black Of the hitherto invincibl'
Vanderbilt.
Time after time has Auburn stood
on the threshold Of a Southern foot
ball champ ionship Time after tim,
has Auburn raped for admission, anC
time after time has the mighty bull
of Vanderbilt doomed in the doorway
and turned the Orange and Blue back
as effectively as ever belliCose bull
dog routed a hobo hungry and for
lorn.
u Ut times change, The Macedonian
- phalanX was a great GROUND
gamer in its time, but it had to give
way before the sterner attack Of the
Roman legionary formation.
Armored knights gained consider
able regulations as line buckers in
their day and time, but somebody in
vented "A gunpoWder resistance that
made their best efforts as feeble as
the cheers at a Chautauqua meeting
or a prohibitionist convention.
And so II goes From every indi-
cation the worm in Southern foot
ball has at last turned and Vanderbilt
seems doomed to defeat.
Vanderbilt has been beaten twice
this year. once they were run wild
upon by the followers Of Coach Yost
of Michigan. Again they were routed
by the onfall of Virginia. But neither
the Wolverines nor the Virginians
make any pretext to being members
of the 5. l. A. A., and from the
S. l. A. A. the champion Of Dixie
must be chosen
Auhurns task seems entirely more
psychological than physical. Unques-
uonably the Orange and Blue has one
Of the best eleVens in the proud
football history of the institution I'm
questionably Vanderbilt has the
weakest machine ever nodded by Nc
Gugin. Auburn showed puissantly
strong in her game last Saturday
with Tech. Vanderbilt showed la
mentally weak at the same time in
her struggle with Tennessee.
r UT Auburn has become accustom-
- ed to being beaten by the Com
modores, and in that lies the problem
that Mike Donahue must overcome
that and the natural overconfidence
that team must possess that has
gone thus far through a sea son with
out having its goal line crossed.
Here in birmingham to-day, Au-
burn has apparently the winning spir-
it. Auburn money is Haunted every
where. There are Auburn colors and
Auburn Colors everywhere. His ex-
cellency the Governor Of Alabama
has abandoned his capitol In Mont
gomery and is here with his entire
staff to see an Alabama team cham
pions in the making.
Auburn's entire student body and
the entire faculty from President
ThaCh down to the official water boy
of the institution are here for the
purpose of witnessing the mort OF the
footballistic John l.. Sullivan of the
South. It's great, gay crowd. 1t
should be great, scrappy game
Z OR Vanderbilt is not without its
adherents. The alumni and thu
students Of the Methodist Univer-
sity know this is theirn last stand
They know that humiliating defeat
has been turned to glorious victory
In just such last stands. Two hun
dred Vanderbilt students arrived here
on special train this morning. Van.
derbilt alumni from all over the
Southern country have poured into
Birmingham for the last "a hours.
The Commodores did not arrive un-
til this morning, though the Auburn
team came last night. The Commo-
dores preferred the quiet buColiC life
in Decatur, about 100 miles to the
north of here, to the pestiferous
strenuosity that has been brooding in
birmingham for week.
PUT what the Vanderbilt chances
u are an unprejudiced observer
finds hard to define. Advices this
morning were that Tom Brown and
Morgan would be in the game for
a while at least This will undoubted
~ strengthen the Commodores, but
Brown and Morgan have been out SC
long and We're SO badly hurt that
IL is difficult to see how they car
stand the pounding that the backs OF
Auburn are sure TO give the Colo
and Black forwards.
And with the exception OF Am
Sikes--and Skies is no Morrison, nc
Hardage-McGugin has not developed
single reliable baCkfield man.
But what OF Auburn? Mike Dona-
hue smiingly reports that Lockwood
and Taylor will be back in the game
Auburn appeared formidable enougr
with these gentlemen out OF the biCll
ering but with the Titanic Lockwood
looming up on one side Of the pow.
erful Pitts, it's enough to halt tn,
heart OF any foothallst, though tina
heart be Is courageous as hearts car
be.
IS the hackfeld Donahue has Hart
and Newell and Kearley to star
with. This looks bad enough, hu
when IL is announced that he ha
Christopher and that red headed GU,
l that made Techs team seem tissue
li becomes O. calamity
The teams clash at Redwood Field
Where IN the summer months IN
pasehaltsts are wont 10 perform. !
rs certain that a brilliant crowd Wi
see brilliant game
But though Auburn triumph to-da.
the Orange and Blue VIII he watch
Ing Atlanta, and II Georgia defeat
Tech-and there seems no llSeuhoo
of their failing, Auburn will have d
remark as the gentleman did abou
life, It's just helaumoruvit Fo
next Saturday the Orange and Blu
must down the Red and Black. Nhip'
lsisome job, an things and Mr Rob
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