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

when the Orange and Blue Of IN,
Alabama Polys clashes with the Gol6
and Black of the hitherto invinCibl'
Vanderbilt
Time after time has Auburn stood
on the threshold Of a Southern foot
ball championship. 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 bach
as effectively as ever beiliCose bull
dog routed a hobo, hungry and for
Torn,
PUT times change. The Macedonian
- phalanX was great GROUND
gamer in its time, but il had TO give
way before the sterner attack Of the
Roman legionsry formation.
Armored knights gained consider
able regulations as line buCkers in
their day and time, but somebody in
vented gunpowder resistance that
made their best efforts as feeble as
the cheers at a Chautauqua meeting
or q prohibitionist convention.
And so il goes From every indi-
cation the worm in Southern foot
bah has at last turned and Vanderbilt
seems doomed TO defeat
Vanderbilt has been beaten twice
th,s 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 NirgInians
make any preteXt to being members
Of the :. l. A A, and from the
). l. A, A. the champion of Dixie
must be chosen
Auburns task seems entirely more
psychological than physical Uuques-
tIonably the Orange and Blue has one
or the best elevens in the proud
football history Of the institution. Tn
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
u TT Auburn has become accustom-
- ed to being beaten by the Com
modores, and in that lies the problem
hat Mike Donahue must overcome.
that and the natural oyeTConfideng
hat 2 team must possess that has
gone thus far through a season with
out having It's goal line crossed
Here in Birmingham to-day Au-
burn has apparently the winning spr-
a. Auburn money is Haunted every
where. There are Auburn colors and
Auburn colors everywhere. His eN-
gellencN the Governor of Alabama
has abandoned his capitol in Mont
somery and is here with his entire
staff to see an Alabama team cham
pions in the making.
Auburn's entire studeut body and
Inc 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
footballstic John l. sullivan of the
South. It's a great, gay crowd II
should be a great SCTappy game
L OR Vanderbilt is not without its
1 adherents The alumni and the
students OF the Methodist Cniver-
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
drcd Vanderbilt students arrived here
an 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-
cores preferred the quiet huColic life
in Decatur. about 100 miles to the
north Of here, 10 the pestiterou'
streuuosity that has been brooding IN
birmingham for q week.
DCT what the Vanderbilt chances
u are an unprejudiCed observer
finds hard 20 define AdNiCes this
morning were that Tom Brown anC
Morgan would be i'm the game fol