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I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1907. SPORTING PAGE STATE BREATHLESSLY INTERESTED IN TODAVS GAME 1 EDITED BY I P. H. WHITING TECH AND GEORGIA, THE STRONGEST TEAMS IN THE STATE, CLASH TODAY IN BIG BATTLE FOR GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP HALFBACK. BUT VIEWS C. HATCHER, END. SMITH (CAPT), HALFBACK. By PERCY I Tho supreme test for the Tech and Georgia football teams comes Saturday afternoon, when the two ancient rivals line up against each other in the annual battle for the supremacy of the state. It ought to be a great fight. The teams seem evenly match ed and the decision will be fought for from beginning to end. It is to be <hoped that the members of both teams will play the game according to the rules, without undue roughness, and with the right spirit of sportsmanship. With no intention of raking up the dead past unnecessarily it might not be amiss to remind the Georgia team that their ath letic association is under a hazy cloud in Atlanta because of the bad sportsmanship of tlio Georgia baseball team last spring. And it is up to them to redeem their alma mater. They can do this by playing the best game they know how and by losing or winning with good grace. The feeling among the backers of the two teams has run too high. Men who are interested in both teams huvo said things that a re-thinking would prove to them to be untrue. The alumni of neither college havo had tho proper feeling toward the other. It has been a caso of hard feeling ffom the jump. It is up to the members of the two teams to show thnt this feeling was without justification. And they enn do this by plny- ing a clean, fast game of football and by abiding gracefully by the decision. And all of us feel sure that both tenms will do this and that the day will pass off without untoward incident. rip-snort ingest ever, early. f i ! And if you want to see the fun, turn out MERCER EXPECTS TO HARPOON HOWARD Macon. Ga„ Nov. 2.—In spite of the severe drubbing Mercer received In Mississippi, .she is going nfter all the rest of the .garnet of the aeaeon with determined effort. Saturday Howard cornea and every thing possible hae been done by Coach Bchencker to round the boys up In splendid form. Without doubt the •varsity has shown up better thle week against the scrubs than ever before, and certainly they have been put through a rlstd prac tice. Several men have shown up well this week who have received little notice before. Chief among them are Ma lone, the midget, who Is .playing right end; Dunaway, guard, and Gillespie, tackle. No surprise will be sprung if all three of these youngsters are given a try-out In Saturday's game. fihnw has been sent hack to full nnd Bussell In nt center again. The prob able line-up for Saturday Is: Itussell, center; Spurlln, left end; Davla, left tackle; Scoggins, left guard; Under wood, right guard: Poole, right tnckle; Hicks, right end; Landrum, gunner: Mallory, left halfback; Shaw, fullback; Sudderth, rtght halfback. HOWARD EXPECTS TO TRIM MERCER TEAM Birmingham, Ala., Sov. 2.—Howard College meets Mercer on the gridiron in Macon today and If there are two teams In Dixie evenly matched, these two are Howard and Mercer. The game, there, fore, promises to be a great one, In spite of the fact that Howard Is gen erally chosen to land the prize. In spits of Howard's hard ,uck sea son, the Alabama Baptists are confi dent of licking Mercer *on account of that team’s disastrous downfall before the rushes of the Agricultural and Me chanical College of Mississippi. The same team defeated Howard 12 to 5, but this result was nothing compared to the drubbing the A. and M. boys handed the Muconlans. WHAT DAN M’GUGIN THINKS What Dan McOugin, coach of the Vanderbilt team, think*—down deep In hti brain—about the poaatbtlltlea of the game today with Michigan la •hown by the enclosed letter to the sporting editor of The Georgian: Nashville, Tenn. Dear Percy: Am certainly sorry you wilt not be on hand Hatuntay afternoon, as 1 believe you would.see a great game. In point of actual power. It would of course be foolish for me to say that Michigan Isn't stronger than we are. If Michigan should tumble a few times and wv should not, and If Michigan should drop s few punts, which nr should gather up. or If we should have luck with forward pas.es snd Michigan should not, then we might win. If the opposite Is true, the Lord knows, 1 don’t. Yours sincerely, 1 1418 McGavock St DAN M’GUOIN. Both Teams Are Trained to the Minute For the Big Engagement, and, Despite Miserable Weather Conditions, a Big Crowd Will Go to Ponce DeLeon to See the Fun.' INTERVIEWS WITH THE COACHES 1 Coach Heisman—**l have nothing to say." Coach Whitney—“I should rather not express an opinion ” GRAQE, TACKLE. F’ M’WHORTER, TACKLE, I FOOTBALL OUTLOOK \ 1 Well, this Is the big day. Football holds the center of the stage In the South and rattling good contests arc on the carpet. The big game in Georgia Is the Tech-Georgla battle, about which de. tails will be found elsewhere. "Captain Smith, are you ready?" “Captain Sjveet, are you ready?" And a blast qn the referee's whistle will set the ball In motion for tho big Georgia-Tech football game at Ponce DoLeon park this afternoon. And for an hour or more there will be things doing that were never dream ed of, back In the peaceful days when Bill Smith and his merry men were winning a pennant for Atlanta. J. Pluvlus and tho weather man have combined to make the atmospheric and field conditions about as bad as could be figured out In a rarebit dream. Rained All Night. All last night It rained steadily and copiously. The drizzle got going In good time to catch the theater cron-ds nnd to clear the street of the college men who are wont to prowl up and down Peachtree on the night before a big game. Not satisfied with this, It kept going all night and what It has done to the Ponce DeLebn Held hae been a plenty. It Is a double nnd twisted blessing that the game Is to he played nt Ponce DeLeon, where the crowds can be well handled, ruin or shine. And one ad vantage of the rain hns been that the llint-llku top-soil of the new gridiron hns beon softened somewhat. Th* will make the falls a little less dead* but It will make both teams slip ar.|l skate around as though they were on Ice. The weather conditions seem to give the advantage to the heavier team, but which that Is nobody knows. Tech has n pretty weighty aggrega tion. all right, but so has Georgia, may. be. Nobody will know for sure until the Athens team lines up. .Tht Uncsrtainty of Itl This uncertainty Is one of the mar velous features of the affair. Never before has a Tech-Georgla game been In prospect when nobody knew what to make of it. A football game under ordinary circumstances Is n mystery, deep and unsolvable. But when you can't dope out the line 0000000000000000000OOO000O O O 0 THE LINE-UP! O O Tseh. Georgia. 0 0 Hill. le 0 Johnson, It O Henderson, lg 0 Snyder, c 0 Smith, rg 0 Davis, rt O Robert, re 0 Buchanan, fb 0 Fitzsimmons rh 0 Sweet. Ih.... 0 Luck, fb 0 0 -? 0 -? O -? O -? o -? O -? 0 -? 0 -? 0 -? 0 -?. 0 0 0000O00000000000000000O00O the other team Is going to do about It, then "where you are nt" Is a question too deep for human minds. And we have given It up. It looks a toss-up which team lsgotng to win, and the uncertainty Is mir rored In the betting which Is anywhere from 8 to 5 on Georgia to 3 to 1 on Tech. The official seems to be 75 on Tech to 50 on Georgia. Both teams nre ready and compara tively fit. Tech has a few cripples. So has Georgia. But generally speaking both aggregations are ripe and ready. And It will bo a battle . for blood. Both teams hate each other cordially and can be counted on to go, in and play to the very outside limit. Plenty of Police. Tho feeling between the backers of the two colleges Is no better than It should be and there is a faint possibil ity of a clash. To be on the safe side and to guard against this the largest force of police that ever attended a football game In Atlanta will turn out to see the fun—and Incidentally to see that pence Is kept, be It ever so paln- tul. It has been rumored that Tech may refuse to play provided certain men un desirable to her are used on the Geor gia line-up. But It can safely be said that this Is not so. Tech may protest against certain players, but they will not disappoint the crowd. The only possibility of n hitch arises up of the one team and can’t tell whr* thusly: Professor Riggs of Clemson and Professor Holmes of Georgia, both vice presidents of the S. I. A. A., will bo on hand. In case they should at tempt to rule out players of either side there might be a lusty kick. It Is not likely, however, that any such trouble will arise. But there Is no telling and we should hate to guarantee against It. Georgia’s Line-Up? Nobody knows what Georgia Is going to offer In the way of players. When the team came In last night It walked up to the desk of the 5Iajestlc and called for keys. Not a man registered! When the attention of the clerk was jestingly called to the fact that the law- required that alt guests register, he said he would risk it, that the Geo association was paying for 2-1 men and that he would take his chances. Another symptom of the general mystery Is that not even the Georgia students know what men are to be used on the team. "Will Cofer play?" "I don't,know." "Will Joe Rossfter play?" “I don’t know.” And so It goes. Rumor has It that both these men and n lot of others who have not ap peared,regularly In the Georgia line-up will be seen In the game. However, this can not be confirmed. When asked for the Georgia line-up this morning Coach Whitney said: "I don't care to give It out." When asked. "Why not?" he replied: "I don't have to answer that, either, do I?" Here are a few more questions and answers: "Is Cofer with you?" "Yes." "Will you play him'.’" ■'I don’t know, but I think not." “What about Rosslter?” •i don't know. At a meeting of the representatives about 2 o'clock this morning It was agreed to use all pro tested men." "When can we get the line-up?" "TllBf twifnra the* renews* VlAffln■ " SNAPPY EXHIBITION OF FOOTBALL IN THE INDIAN-PHINCETON GAME By W. 8. FARNSWORTH. New York. Nov. 2.—What will un doubtedly prove the greatest gridiron struggle In the history of football will be fought at the Polo grounds this aft- ernoun when the Carlisle Indians and tho Princeton Tigers clash. This battle will bring together the only two teams that have scared aver 209 points. The Tigers were above the mark before last Huturday's defeat at the hands of Cor nell, while the Indians passed the double century mark when, one week ago, they pushed the sons of William Penn off the football map for the sea- Over 25,090 people are expected at the game and If they don't get the best run for their money they ever had. It will be because one of the teams has taken a decided Mump. In order to ex pedite the handling of the crowd, sep arate entrances have been provided for is hoped to make It possible to sent the crowd with as much expedition as a big baseball crowd Is accommodated by the management of the Giants. No spectators will be allowed to leave their seats between halves and promenade across the Held. "Mike" Thompson, of Georgetown, will referee the game and "Jack" Minds, of Pennsylvania, will be the umpire. The game will start at 2:20 and there will be thlrty-mtnute halves. The Indians must be given the credit third down practically remove the pen alties that were provided to punish a team for Incomplete forward passes. There are kick formations from which the forwanl pass will often be made, but there are also kick forma tions almost as certain to result In a punt. Yet from the latter the Indian* To the South In general two big contests are of especial Interest, Vanderbllt-MIchlgan and Sewanee-Virginia. In correspondence from Sewanee. It Is stated that the One Big Thing Is the Sewance-Virginla game, because the Vanderbllt-MIchlgan set-to Is not really a strictly Southern affair. Reastgjlng thusly a pair-oared event up Podunk creek would be a big ger thing than a race between Cornell und Leander eights at Henley. Because It Is nn Inter-sectional affair the Michigan game Is the main show In the South. From present? Indications, and as the field will pre sumably be heavy, giving an ndvaftia’ge to the weighty Michiganders, Mich igan should win by a couple of touchdowns. But you can't tell; ’ Also you can't tel! what Virginia will do to Sewanee. Right now our private hunch (don't bet on It, we're ^not) Is that Sewanee will be the one that "does” Virginia, by a touchdowfn or two. About the other games we positively refuse to guess. Our reputation as a guesser Is on the blink now and there la nothing to be gained by any mori hazards. ’ . • Next Saturday will see the following games on tap in the South: Arkansas vs. Tulane, at New Ofleani. Auburn vs. Mercer, at Macon. ‘ ; clemson vs. Davidson, at Clemson. Gordon vs. Chattanooga, at Barnesvllle. . . . Mississippi, vs. Vanderbilt, at Nashville. North Carolina vs. Georgetown, at Washington. Sewanee vs. Tech, at Atlanta. Tennessee vs. Kentucky State, at Knoxville. It Isn’t a very promising list, compared with the one run olt this Sat* Urt **The Teeh-Sewanee game should be the best In the lot, but It will not do to overlook the Davldson-Clemson affair. Both of them should be hum. mere. VIEWS OF EXPERTS ON VANDY-MICHIGAN GAME By JOHN CRAIG.„ Nashville, Tenn., Nov. '2.—This city Is absolutely on edge for the big Van derbllt-MIchlgan game, which comes off here this afternoon. The Michigan Ibam arrived Friday morning fresh and'in k'>od spirits after their Journey from the North. There are 25 In the party. Including subetl tutes, coaches nnd trainer. The Ann Arbor band and second team men ar rived from Ann Arbor later In the day. These were sent by popular subscrip tion from the students of the Univer sity of Michigan. .Most of the members of the, team have never.been In Tennessee before, and were agreeably surprised to find cool weather. They had feared that change of climate would affect their play, but several stated that the weather seemed as cool here as In Ann Arbor when they left. Athletic Director Charles Baird had the following to say: "In my mind the contest Is apt to be very even with the element of luck a factor In the result." Physical Director Keene Fitzpatrick: ‘The men are In gilt-edge condition, and should be able to do their best to day." Coach Yost: "If we weather the Van- derbllt storm today I shall feel very hopeful against Pennsylvania. I don’t see how Vanderbilt will be able to consistently gain ground against us. We haven't had a first, down made against u* In any game' this year. On defensive I’belltve the team to be th. equal of any of the old Michigan team*, though on the offensive we are not nearly so. strong. Don’t let anybody have the mistaken Idea that I regard the Vanderbilt game tu a practice af fair. We will be tickled to death to win by a. margin of , two, points. From what I hat'e been able tp, learn. I doubt whether any .team In the country Is a* alert handling foVwgrd passes as Van derbilt, and there are very few on a par. I don’t forget, the ezhlbltlon Van- derbllt gave- last year when she scored four points to .the Indians nothing, end, as they were that-day, I don't believe any team .In' the country could have defeated Vanderbilt. ■ While I don't be lieve Vanderbilt Is as strong this year as last, yet she Is-very close up to the mark. After a long.' hard trip. Vander- blit tied the Navy. The Navy wae defeated by Harvard after a fumble, and the Midshipmen easily took the strong Lafayette eleven Into camp. 1< to 0. I obtained mjr football experi ence at Lafayette, and I am familiar with conditions there, and I tell you it takes a strong team to defeat Lafay ette 17 to 0. "If Michigan Is defeated by anybody, of course we would, rather have It done by Vanderbilt, but don't let that re mark deceive you In the feeling that Michigan will not play up to the last acme of her capacity today.” ATHENS SENDS DELEGATION TO SEE THE BIG GAME what would be poor generalship on the part of any other team becomes a per fect generalship on the part of the red skins. This Is partly because of Its success In many Instance*. But a team that for having done more to awaken the can engineer a forward pass for 45 football world to the possibilities of the yards, successfully or not. Is as well off open football game than any other eleven. They pull off plays successful ly which no other eleven of the big four would attempt at this time of the season. There Is no man passing the ball on any other eleven w ho can hurl the oval as far as a good fullback can kick It. Yet this Is what the Indian* do again as any other team whose fullback can kick an average of fifty yards. For If the forward pass Is unsuccessful on the third down the attacking eleven merely loses the ball, gaining at the same time the distance of an average kick. There Is also a chance that the forward pass will be successful and a further advan tage Is that a team can protect It bet- the various stands. In this manner it and again and then doing so on tba ter by far than It can a kick. The granting of the petition for a holiday Saturday by the University'of Georgia faculty resulted In the de parture from Athens of between two and three hundred Georgia students Friday and Saturday. About one hundred came In via the Seaboard Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. A number took the 9 a. m. Seaboard from Athens this morning and another big bunch will arrive over the same line before the game this afternoon. The students who arrived yesterday were accompanied by a number of Ath ens and Lucy Cobb belles, who will be on hand to cheer the red and block. The university band also came along, bringing some twenty pieces. Those who are familiar with the past per formances of this energetic lot of mu sician* know that they will give A go J account of themselves. A number of Athens alumni, tom* of them old football stars and time- honored supporters of the team, ere in town and will be seen at the game. “IS A MAN A FREE MORAL AGENT?" Dr C. B. Wilmer, Sunday, Nov. 3,1907,3 p. m- Young Men’s Christian As* sociation.