Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
By j. W. Heisman.
Asst Saturday furnished its full
quota of football surprises the

quota OF 1OOtDdll surprises lHe
entire country over.
In the East Yale went down TO in
& glorious defeat at the hands of a very
4 minor college, while Notre Dame was
4 showing West Point how the great
B and only college game is worked out
and played out in the wild and wooliy.
In the West the way Michigan
"smeared" Syracuse was the big eye
opener, while in the South the two big
surprises of the day were the merci-
\ less manner in which Virginia and
Tech butchered their respective oppo-
nents to make a holiday
looked for Virginia to win, but not
by the score that was flashed in.
While Virginia may nave played bet
Il Ter than she did a week ago, never
theless the difference between the
score the Old Dominion players ran
up against Vanderbilt and that mark
ed UP against Georgia seems clearly
q 10 indicate that Vanderbilt is much
4 weaker than usual. Unless Tom Brown
gets back into the game by the time
the COmmodores meet Auburn they
are liable to prove as easy picking for
the Alabamans as they were for the
4 FiTginians
COME will suppose that because Au-
burn won from L. S. [. by one
touchdown only that they are not as
4 strong as has been already surmised
by most football experts; but don't
,V-rN TA1n a.
year the Steadiest, most carefully con-
eealed waiting game OF any team in
the South. While they did not run up
a score, the accounts show that at all
events they were never in danger OF
osing, for =. S. U. never threatened
the others goal line. Auburn was
content to win, and gain experience
4 and seasoning, while showing nothing.
The Auburnites have two old
4 grudges to settle this fall-one with
vanderbilt and the other with Geor-
sia-and nothing IS going to balk her
rom being in the best possible shape
10 settle them this fall.
w HILE not unanticipated the fact
that Georgia was able to put it
over North Carolina in hearty fashion
ana not by flukes, indicates clearly
enough the fine consistency of play to
which the Attendant have attained.
IAey now have only One game ahead
Of them before locking horns with
Tech, and they will be in their prime
Enen that classic game comes off.
Teorgia has a better team than she
had last year; in fact, just about the
oeSt team she ever had in her whole
career, in my estimation. And il
seems to me that the championship
"es between her and Auburn.
IN passing. it is perhaps worth not
ing that North Carolina would appear
10 nave but little show with Virginia
Tor this year again, despite her five
toacnes. The material at n. c. is not
10 be 50 bad this year, and just what
,dh be the matter at this ancient and
honorable stronghold of the great
pastime it is hard to conjecture.
L is always a rather sad thing when
team finds itself definitely elm
mated from a championship round in
me pref afternoon, after a whole sea-
son Of terrific toll and aging worry;
put so it goes. Sewanee IS out Of
II Tor this year as she meets neither
Georgia nor Auburn, through whom
que might have a chance to work
PACK INTO the beaten path. However,
ner defeat at the hands OF Tech was
70 very thorough that it is much to be
u@Ibted whether another crack at the
"!' thing through either Of these lat
.ef very strong teams would offer her
real chance.
IN this one game at least the
strength of the Tigers line was not in
rEldence; and, personally, | doubt
Aether the Sewanee line has been as
Sioh2 as was believed. IN other
words ! am not so much inclined to
see unexpected strength in the Tech
Fam as | am to believe that Sewanee
- rather weaker than even she herself
10 S rude breaking OF precedents.
not for once it really appears as
-uougn the Tennessee college teams
ire 10 be badly distanced by the tecm1
rom Georgia and Alabama. When
Ne"anee meets Alabama we shall see
'elher 1t is not true that SeWdnee is
',SHer than she looked.
lor my part, I shall not be sur
gI.Sea II Alabama wins from the tt
't week following her heavy de-
ieat at the hands Of Alabama
taR the Clemson team Il the depths
~ despair. That was a hard blow ia
'aeher. but With admirable courage