Evening star., 1928-12-10

meets this week on Friday and
Saturday at Nashville, Tenn,
Il has little Of importance on its
calendar of business. Unless
something unexpected happens, repre-
sentatives of the institutions that form
the organization will gather, perform
routine duties and quietly depart for
home.
Perhaps the most important phase OF
the meeting this year, and in the
future, will be the discussions that LEAD
to new alliances in foot ball. The
Tennessee Florida game last week at
Knoxville, probably one of the greatest
games of the season just ended, grew
out of a rather accidental conversation
at the meeting year ago, and 1t may
be that other games for next year VIII
result from this weeks confabs.
On Thursday, day before the first con-
ference meeting. the Southern Foot Ban
Coaches Association is to hold It's gam.
ering, also at Nashville. At the coaches
meeting it Is likely that the head OF
every big foot ball system in the South
will be present, with it almost as ilkeiy
that the coaches of many other schools
not members of the conference also
will be present.
May Take in Duke.
The question of admitting Duke Uni
Nersity to membership in the conference
is certain to come up, and probapiy
will be passed upon favorably. Inc
way to do this has been opened through
a proposal made by the executive COM
mittee to the conference to increase
the number of member institutions
from % to %.
Practically all other matters that have
will be clarification of rules or discus
Jsions hinging on changes in certain
regulations, none of which seems to
be vitally important. The coaches at
their meeting are to take up the queS-
ton of formal organization, with
constitution and bylaws, the coaches
body now being purely an informal
body that gets together for an I'M
Ipromptu talkfest and banquet every
year.
/ Georgia Tech has just finished one
lof the greatest gridiron seasons any
eleven in the South ever had. Not only
has it moved down all its Southern
conference opponents, but it took the
measure of the one big team it play
ed from outside the South, Notre Dame.
It wound up a brilliant year Saturday
by trouncing the University of Georgia,
20 to 6, in its one most important con-
test.
Coach Alexander deserves great credit
for his accomplishment. Any coach
that carries his team through season
without slump must know what he is
doing, no matter how good may be his
material. Alexander started the year
with what he considered to be enough
material to have strong team and did
not hesitate to say so.
Forecast Upheld.
incidentally, the record that Georgia
Tech has made is proof that predic-
tions sometimes do not come far from
being accurate summations of prospects
based on knowledge Of existing facts,
because last Fall before the season
opened Wallace Wade of Alabama came
out with the statement, that Georgia
Tech ought to stand out this year. In
summing up the prospects of various
! elevenS, here Is what was printed in this |
column In September about the Atlanta |
school:
Georgia Tech should have the |
strongest team in the South this year.
Is the way Wallace Wade, head coach of |
Alabama, sums up his idea of the out
look for foot ball. Wade bases his
opinion on the remarkable showing of
the Atlanta school last season, when it
was made up largely of sophomores, all
OF whom are back on the field.'
"And in commenting on his teams
chances Coach Alexander of Georgia
Tech does not seem minded to take
issue with Wade. In fact, it is perfectly
apparent from what Alexander says
that he thinks mighty well of his out
look for the next three months, much
better than usual. While several men,
berS of the squad were lost, only one
outstanding player will not be back.
All the other positions seem to be well
filed except for a good substitute for
the fullback's place. :,
Alex Was Sanguine.
"'we have a real weakness at one
end and fullback,' says Alex. The
end position is the one left vacant by
Crowley, and he was a great player.
For fullback We have one exceptionally
good man in Randolph, but If we find
any substitutes for him they will have
to be developed. Also we are some
what weak In substitutes for end posi-
tions. All our other positions are well
taken care Of. On the whole our team
should be somewhat stronger than it
was last year, unless unexpected in
Juries weaken u.s.
when Alex states that ION the whole
our team should be somewhat stronger
than it was last year." he says lot,
when one stops to consider the kind
of team that wore Techs colors then.
1t lost only one game during the entire
year, and that to Notre Dame. 1t tied
one game, that with Vanderbilt, and
won all others. Those schools that
went down before the Atlanta eleven
were Virginia Military Institute, Tulane,
Ner1n
Louisiana State, Auburn and Georgia.
incidentally, Georgia Tech was the only
school to win from Georgia, which, in
turn, was the only victor over Yale.
"Of course, there always is the posi-
bility that injuries or other unexpected
happenings may take heavy toll and
cause a series of losses instead of VIC
tories, but certainly no team in the
South begins its workouts with better
prospects than Georgia Tech. 1t has
brilliant backs and an excellent line
from its varsity of last Fall, and in ad-
dition has material from what probably
was the greatest freshman eleven in the
South. AS Wallace Wade predicts and
Bill Alexander almost admits, Georgia
Tech ought to have one of its greatest
elevens."
Opponents Of University of Tennessee
nave plenty 10 think about for the next
two years, If backfield ability Is Of real
value to team. Tennessee has back
field made up of second-year PLAYERS,
with one exception, who have two more
years to tread their way toward oppos-
ing goal posts. The best of these is
McEyer. who has proved himself one Of
the best backs the South has produced.
In last weeks game with Florida, which
generally was expected to beat Tennes-
see, 1t was this backfield, led by McEyer,
which made the onslaught that Florida
could not stop and could not match
with its brilliant Crabtree.
"Snitz" Snyder pretty generally is be-
ing picked for all-Southern eleyens.