Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
BY j. w. Heisman.
Coach Tech Football Team.)

u lWetH AuDulIl anu
terday afternoon must now be In
position to understand why 1 picked
the former to win
Not once was It necessary for Au-
| burn to use a forward pass, not once
trick play Knowing that her su-
periority lay in her line and in the
| plunging ability of her backfield, the
Plainsmen never wavered from the
plan Of driving 1t along by virtue Of
their strength in these two direc
TONS she was not to be drawn into a
| reckless style of play that might If
| successful help to run the score up,
but which might be dangerous and
jeopardize the business Of merely
winning.
NY prediction that condition would
be about the most important factor in
the game was amply proven correct, /
think For the first ten minutes OF
the game Georgia had rather the bet
ter of the discussion; but as she
prepared for her first and only sue
cessful forward pass which went for
her only score she might as well have
begun her farewell swan song to final
victory, for she was shooting her last
respondent rocket
How Auburn could have let that
pass get away with her / do not I'M
derstand; for, while the play was per-
fectly executed, yet Georgia has
shown 1t repeatedly in games this
fall, and | would not have believed
that Auburn's side back could have
been tricked into forgetfulness.
Auburn Slow Starting.
At first Auburn went into the game
In rather dull and listless way.
They were not charging on defense
and their ends were not getting the
Georgia interference But this touch
down, coming right on the heels Of
number of nice rushing gains by
Georgia woke them up. They received
the ball again on their own 30-yard
line, and marched It all the way down
the field and across Georgia'5 goal
| line
Ruthlessly and relentlessiy they
rammed their fullbacks into the weak
ening and wavering Georgia line, and
after that first touchdown for Auburn
the game was practically ended. After
the Athenians had experienced the
remorseless power OF that ramming
attack they were a beaten team,
| whether they knew 1t or not.
| The half ended with the score a
| tie; but as the huge throng present
watched the teams line up for the re-
opening of hostilities at the opening
| of the second half it must have been
! apparent to most OF them that Au-
! burn could do that 70-yard stunt over
| again, and as many more times as
they pleased provided only the game
| continued to run on.
And they did.
! The next time they got hold of the
thing they carried it about so yards
for touchdown without surrendering
! possession OF the pigskin. 1t was
! slow, grinding work-like that of the
mills of the gods" but the grist was
fine indeed-for Auburn. She was
there with the endurance stuff, and
the longer the game went tho surer
the Alabamians were of winning.
In vain Georgia rushed fresh troops
to the scene and threw them in the
breach: in vain the regulars rested
/ and then tore back into the fray with
a determination to stop the blamed
thing or die between the thin white
lines; their hearts broke, but they
couldn't stop 1t.
The Forward Passing.
AS ! anticipated, neither team had
I any idea OF relying on the forward
pass route for victory. Auburn used
not a single pass, while Georgia used
| but one until the latter part OF the
last quarter. Then IN an attempt to
score again they tried several in sue
| cesslon, but all of them failed. Con-
sidering the success that first pass
met with. however. it is a little singu-
lar that Georgia did not attempt lot
of passes all through the game, for it
| should have been plain to them. not
later than the middle of the second
| quarter, that they We're going to have
| a hard time of it to score even one
| touchdown by the running or rush
ing game.
Auburn's PuzzIng Shift.
A factor that contributed very ma
terially to Georgia's downfall was
that after the first quarter and almost
constantly throughout the second
half, Auburn used a shift formation
from which to spring all her plays
that got Georgia's goat and kept it
The execution of the shift was not as
smooth and polished as it might have
been, and the team was penalized
once or twice, l believe, for being in
motion as the ball went into play.
Its effectiveness lay in the fact
that the point of it's outbreak was diff
fcult to figure out, for it could go
| around either end, straight ahead
through the snapper. or diagonally in
two directions into a gap of about
three yards between two groups of
| llnemen. w ltn Arnold, Newell and
the fullbacks alternating in this thing,
Auburn gained slowly but surely al
most every time the ball went into
| play. Most of their attacks were
| centered on Henderson in the Georgia
line, and after a time they wore him
down and he was replaced
Georgia Kept on Trying.
To the credit of the Red and Black
it must be said that they stayed in
| the game and kept on fighting long
after it must have become apparent
that they hadn't a ghost of a show
left McWhorter still rammed hard,
+, and Paddock ran fast. but their line
had been put out" and they had to
go il alone. Yes, the Georgia line
proved unable to so maneuver the
Auburn line as to make it possible for
the Georgia backs to gain ground
with sufficient consistency TO score
touchdowns That was what l said
would happen, and that was what
| happened
For Georgia Captain McWhorter
played good, hard football but he
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