The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-04
GEORGIA TECH
SOARING HIGH
BUT MAY LOSE
Georgia Always Packs Tremen.
dous Punch in Game
Against Tech
MANY UPSETS RECORDED
TrOjans Beat Stanford:
Gophers Beat Badgers; Wit
tenberg Takes Wesleyan
By HENRY FARRELL.

Georgia Tech, through the apenc,
OF a fine team and the pranks of s
! weird season that removed one b,
one the candidates for the No. ma
tional ranking, is in a fine spot nov
to finish the year as the only un.
defeated and united team of tn,
major classification.
Georgia Tech, with only neighbor.
hood games remaining against Ala.
bama Poly and Georgia and a pos
sible post-season game against
Southern California, is indeed in a
swell spot if you look at it with a
light heart.
But you can hear some football
men, who speak from painful ex-
perience, say that Georgia Tech is in
q swell spot to be knocked off and
they don't stutter when they recitc
by heart list of reasons.
Bill Alexander, the Georgia Tech
coach, is too good a football coach
and too smart man to need warm
ing that his ball club should not take
too much for granted. Alexander
and his club were on the giving end
of one of the same kind of examples
last year in which they proved the
wisdom of the theory that fair
team can have one good day.
Weak Last Year
Georgia Tech wasn't so hot last
year and Georgia was one of the out
standing teams of the year, a team
that was in the same spot that Tech
now occupies. Georgia went into the
game heavy favorite and was
bumped off by Georgia Tech. It is
possible that the Georgia boys have
not forgotten this and that Tech may
be the one team that Georgia is all
loaded up for.
This piece is not meant as a warm
ing to Mr.. Alexander and his boys.
1t is merely an excuse to talk about
some of the things that have hap
pened this season when team load
ed up for one particular game.
There is no doubt that there is
one game on every teams schedule
that the boys want to win particu-
larly. In most cases it is tradition
al game. In other cases it is a game
when victory would command the
most attention and summon the
greatest advertising.
Take the Notre Dame-Army game
this year. They are traditional
rivals and they are also the princi-
pals in game that commands tre-
mendous public attention.
knute Rockne knew before the
season started that he would not
have a great team. He knew that
his boys might get better with ex-
perience as the season advanced but
the Army game did not come late
enough.
Notre Dame lost to Wisconsin and
Georgia Tech with splendid humility
and advanced upon the Army, re-
puted to be one of the greatest teams
Of all times. Notre Dame was load
ed down for the Cadets and plastered
them IL to 6.
Navy Comes To
The Navy, lacking the traditional
game with the Army to point for.
started out like it was going no.
where to meet no one. The mid
shipmen lost the first three games
of the season without scoring a point
and there was nothing left to offer
consolation but Pennsylvania and
Princeton, two of the outstanding
teams of the east. The midshipmen.
with all the betting against them,
knocked off Pennsylvania and
Princeton and finished the season
with the feeling that it had done
we'll.
Michigan started the season with
such terrible team that Pop Yost
denied it and ran away from the
campus. Almost abandoned. the
plucky squad went about its business
getting little better SATURDAY. by
Saturday until it beat Illinois, which
finally won the Big Ten champion
ship, and gave Iowa q lacing that
prevented them from any possible tie
for the title.
Harvard had the alumni looking
for q new varsity coach after being
mauled by the Army and Pennsyl-
vania and tie with Holy Cross. but
the squad looked toward the Yale
game. No Harvard team that beats
Yale is considered a total loss and
Harvard loaded up for Yale and won
the game, shocking lot of people
who don't read the box scores.
Southern California beat Stanford.
Minnesota beat Wisconsin. Witten-
berg knocked off Ohio Wesleyan that
had beaten Michigan and Syracuse.
Pittsburgh tied Nebraska and New
York University ruined Carnegie
Techs championship hopes.
All of which may point to a NOR
81, that q little guy all loaded up
for one big shot IS a tough guy.