Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
HeiSman Doesn't Expect to Win
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Says Tech Won't Be Outclassed

ably a trihe overconfident. When
Tech hit them that first suddening
blow they went down with the dull,
thickening" for the count and never
did recover enough to ask what it
was all about until it was about"
over.
Z OR all that think no one will be
disposed to give Tech the credit
she justly deserves 70 ra most spirit
ed fight Without Nance and John
ston in the lineup the team started
the game with an average weight of
only 1853 pounds, and finishing it with
a lineup averaging only 1852 IL
pounds. Last years midget "immor-
tails" weighed 1854 pounds, so the
reader can judge for himself whether
the Yellow Jackets were playing real
ball for their inches or not against
their much heavier opponents.
AS for the wealth of new material"
that we have read and heard so much
about as being on the Tech team this
fall it is probably worth noting that
Of the eleven players who started the
game eight of them were in college
last year, though only five of these
on the varsity. OF the three new men
--Preas, Patton and Cushman--the
first weighs 1872, the second 1853, and
the last 1853. OF the nine subs put
in the game seven were in college
last year, while two-Hayes and Ri
walls are new men. The former weighs
141 and the latter 157. l give these
details merely to show that the am
is not really getting from the public
the credit that it deserves.
HAVING rounced Sewanee in such
Il decisive fashion Tech admirers
are feeling good over the game with
Auburn the coming Saturday. But if
l am any judge of things footballie
they will do well to take my tip and
"go slow"
How can a rush line averaging 1859
successfully cope for an hour with
one averaging 100 pounds especial
ly when Auburn has nine backs, the
one as good as the other, to send in
behind that line in relays every ten
minutes? And back of this is the
fact that Tech has lost Trawick, Lu-
cas- and Johnston. In addition Alex
ander, one of the few dependable line
subs, is on the hospital list now with
very bad shoulder that he took on
in the Sewanee game. Nance, too,
is more or less Indispensable on ac-
count of an attack of chills, and II is
doubtful just how long he will last.
He was out Of the lineup last Satur-
day for this reason, and as Alexander,
his sub, had to leave the game in the
first half it's a wonder the Tech line
was able to hold up on that side.
A ND yet the team is going good.
Il Coach Devore has done miracles
with the green line men and left the
other coaches free to attend to the
backs, whose improved drive and
lack of fumbling against Sewanee
showed the results of the more con-
Centrated attention that had been put
upon them.
The team has found itself in spirit
at last, as has the college, and it
knows full well what it is going up
against on Saturday. / have little
fear that it will not be able to give
good account of itself
But to demand that the team as it
stands should WIN from what | re-
gard just at present as the strongest
team in the South, is, to my way of
looking at 1t, Just a little more than
is within the pale of reason and sound
sense.