Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-07
Bv Fuzzy Woodruff.

VI Hoover is responsible for the
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 Geor-
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 &C
! 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 1918 football season, it
| would be responded to by flock of
youngsters with a wealth of youth
and high spirits, but poverty stricken
| when 1t came to 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 it 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
along with the Jackets showing
nothing more extraordinary than
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 rattlesnakes backed
ND by a tree loaded with painter cats
The Yellow Jacket became Cham
pionship Bee and the Bee was buzz
ing
Then the schedule was piped.
The pipers saw nothing but Auburn
and Georgia-beyond doubt the S. l.
| A. AS most formidable football ag
gregations.
Ii was enough to make the most
sanguine Tech supporter stop, ponder
and consider.
EuERE are a few facts about Au
| 1 l burn:
Auburn is the odds-o~ favorite for
Southern title honors.
Auburn possesses an all-veteran
line, an all-veteran baCkfield and an
all-veteran list of substitutes practi-
cally as good as the all-veteran first
squad
Auburn has q veteran coach, whose
name betokens combativeness and
who has a store Of football knowledge
as varied as the merchandise in a
country emporium and considerably
more valuable.
Ouite an assortment Of assets for
Auburn.
Then here is an admitted fact:
If Tech is going to take the Orange