Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-20
COACH HE|SMAN
REVIEWS LAST
BIC BA I lies
Believes yandy Would Have Held
Auburn Even if Tom Brown
Had Played in Game.
By J. w. Heisnan.

Vanderbilt held Auburn much closer
liam or most anybody else Thought
Eay would. Auburn let down a bit
In her play through overcontidence-
,Lst besattIng sin of all athletic teams
while vanderbilt played almost bet
rar than she knew how in her agon-
.zed desperation.
careful analysis of the game
sb0vs that Newelrs expected great
lyor, on offense was almost nuuliiied
nv the superb defensive work OF
skies II the Auburn formation called
Far Newell to line up on the right
side Skies, backing up the line, moved
aver to the left opposite Newell; II
the formation required Newell on the
ieft why the station dead opposite
;, him was good enough for Skies
and in that manner he stayed win
Newell the livelong afternoon ana
brought him to earth more times than
score with no gain whatever.
Vanderbilt fought so hard and well
that IL is more apparent than ever
that had Tom Brown been in the
game tho Commodores might have
been able to stall Auburn off to tie,
though l don't imagine they coulu
have won, for it does not appear they
ever threatened Auburn's goal, except
on the one occasion when they gol
away for a long run on forward
nass, which play scored their lone
touchdown
DUT If Vanderbilt was able to stop
IL Newell, it did not follow tha'
they could not halt Auburn's quartet
Of fuuhacks. and this brings me to
what even the inexpert public are
begluuu to md out--thaL in this
day and time a high grade football
Team Is not an assemblage Of eleven
players Tor eleven positions, nut a
collection Of at least twenty Two stars
for eleven places: and if you have
still more than twenty-five you have
Jus. that much better team
That was where Auburn was for
ynate, although sensible as well, for
sometimes 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.
also stop to remark that in THESE
days of finest strategy the first line
III of q team that goes into game
is not necessarily its best Sometimes
good PLAYERS are held out for while
to lo- 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 do the actual. contest
ants.
PLAYERS sometimes chafe under re-
straiuts of this character. because the
Old-time idea that the men who open
the game are the ones who are con-
sldered 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 a definite
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 game as II
was this year,
IT IS a little odd that Sewanee,
/ Alabama and Tennessee should
run so true to form in their seeming
FiaF LIB SUI tIlb III dkdAISN Iot' 49,
Sewlnee beats Tennessee by nine
points ana Alabama by three points
"a difference of six. Then Alabama
gals 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
'i miracles to hold l. S. U. down
20 a tie, or else the latter has hit the
chutes Louisiana's failure to down
the Mississippians must count against
them heavily in their seasons record.
Probably it is true. as Auburn asserts,
that l.. s. U. came to a height ana
banked her all on the game with Don
ahue's clan. Having lost they have
suffered a slump, both physical and
mental
But that is something Alabama new
er does, so Mississippi may safely
expect to encounter a very real ana
I've Tartar when these two come to-
getHer on Turkey Day.
THE game between Sewsnee and
Central of Kentucky fell through
80 It is impossible to get a finer
line on their doings now until after
the game with Vanderbilt on the
nth l did think a week ago that
The Tigers had a trifle the better OF
the outlook, but since the game OF
last Saturday over in Birmingham, !
am about to flop over. Any team that
can hold Auburn by two touchdoWns
to one is playing real football.
AFTER getting away to disap-
pointing start. the Clemson team
Is again indicating my early judg-
ment. 1t will be recalled that even
after suffering a 2O-to-0 slaughter at
he hands of Alabama | foretold they
we're not down and out, as most eV-
efybody supposed; but that they
would come back in a manner that
Would open peoples optics
Since then they have beaten the
strong South Carolina team So 10 0.
ae.d Georgia 10 a lS-to-l5 score
scoring more points on them than
even Virginia or North Carolina
aolld), and now has wound up by
Hek!ng the hide off Mercer. In TINS