Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-10

brightness.
Vanderbilt Not to Slip.
The Commodores lost a goodly
number OF veterans this year-no one
win deny that fact. But no one COM
petcnt to pass an opinion on the point
imagines that the standard Of play
that Vanderbilt has set in the past
Is going to be lowered mIrh, IL any,
in this year of grace. Vanderbilt.
don't you know, just has a way of
turning up with clouds on clouds Of
the necessary material whenever IL
Is required.
There are. am told. fourteen good
prep football schools in Tennessee,
and there is a Vanderbilt man at
the head OF every last one of them
or at least there was n year or
two ago. And then Vanderbilt has
a way Of keeping her eyes on the
fellows that shine at other prep
schools and small colleges and every
now and then we find them turning
up at Vanderbilt. Not that there is
anything improper in this-not at
| all We all try to keep our eyes on
| them and get after them, but Van
! derbilt has her system just a bit
| better organized than the most OF US,
/ and by that means keeps her stuff
up TO par
! SeWanee Even Stronger.
Now you'd think that ii would
| have to go hardswith a team that had
lost such men as Gillem, Sheldon,
Stonev and Gillespie: but Sewanee
doesn't think 80 at all Last year
the team averaged 1853 pounds. but
this years team at Tigertown should
strip at 175, which IS a fine weight
for Southern team. In Parker and
Palmer they have again a pair of
fine backs, and as Tolley is back at
quarter they certainly have no wor-
ries in the backtield. The line has
back nearly all the veterans of last
year, and with the giant Barnwel
? product OF the Porter Military
Academy, TO step into Stoney's shoes
they are considerably better off than
they were In 1912. And Harris Cope
Is still at the helm on the Mountain,
so you see my reasons for surmis-
ing that SeWRnee will have about as
good a team as the best previous in
her career.
Auburn Probably Stronger Than Ever.
| hope ] am not giving away any
thing on the quiet little colony down
on the West Point route. | know
they have not Ieen very communica-
tive Of late. but ] have to write like
a ewspaper correspondent now, and
your correspondent doesn't care
hang, you know, for any mans Sc
cret. Anyway, Auburn has kept II
all TO herself long enough now so
I'm Just coming out with II and tell
the rest Of the Iorting world TO
/ look out for Auburn"
Yes, they, too. lost a smattering Of
good men, but they expected 1t and
planned for T. long ago. Last year
they had quite a bouquet of "ineli-
IN all hs.N
shall see them cavorting over the
gridirons OF the South with a big "A"
on their chests, and then Wen see
them playing some real football
And Georgia.
Ave, aye, sir! Georgia will be
herewith bells on. II looked at
first as though the Red and Black
would lose a heap of veterans: but
somehow they wouldn't stay 'losed"
Here they are, with whole host Of
men who have extended experience
On previous Red and Black teams
and. by jinks, they weigh more than
ever,
And Georgia is going az the thing
very carefully. They suffered a Sc
we're reverse early in the season last
wear, and II came near proving dis
ostrous: but with all the old men
back who know the system. the sig
ndlS. ana tOOtbNii generally, Coach
Cunningham IS wise not TO work
them unnecessarily hard With a lot
Of new material on hand a coach
MUST scrimmage them TO get them
battered into team shape: but old
material al aGdy is nodded and only
needs busting off and revarnishing.
Tech did we'll enough in the second
game, but Citadel. while heavier
han last year, did not look to me as
good as the Citadel team of 1912
Whether they lack pepper all the
inc or whether they were just swept
IF their feet at the outset by Techs
determined onslaught. l have no
means Of determining
Tech has improved a whole 10;
since meeting the Soldiers but still
have grave fears Of the Tech team. !
whole lot has beSu said and writ
on about Techs wonderful new ma
erial and the quantity Of il: bur
when YOU stop to actually count Il
p il appears that there were only
cree men in the lineup SATURDAY
no were not at Tech last year, that
he other thirteen wa, PLAYED in,
looed only four regulars Of last wear.
NJ that. therefore, the remainins
inc were men who played scrub bail
t Tech last year. In other words.
is nearly all home product, as in
ears gone by