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TILE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1907.
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FOOTBALL FEATURES ON THURSDAY
CENTER OF AUBURN’S
MOTLEY.
CROWDS EXPECTED
AT GAME IN MACON
ST ATISTICS OF CLEMSON FOOTBALL TEAM
Name nnd Poaltlon. Age.
RKOULAllgL-
J. a Clark, 30
D. C. Britt, r* 21
F. Fleming, Fg 26
J. N. McLaurln. rt .. 23
It. T. (laiton. It. 1!*
It. II. McPadden, ra... 18
H. Co In, le 19
C. M. Robb* fb 19
A. C. Lee. qb 21
SUBSTITUTES—
J. F. Crider, t 22
G. Warren, hb 20
W. F. Odom. g’. * 20
R. D. McFttiden. hb.. 18
W. H. Hanckle. bb.... 19
H. M. Turner, bb 21
J. F. Cau|htn.n ( fb..;. 11
8 w?:
Ht In No. Pm,
Stock. Year, on
Keet. •Vnr.lty, Class.
5 1 Junior.
tl Ilk 1 Junior.
6114 o Junior.
6 9 8 Junior.
SI 2 Junior.
5 5 1 ...Freshman.
5 7 1 Junior.
• 0 Junior.
5 6 0 Senior.
6 8 1 Junior.
6 8 0 ...Freshman.
No. Pror.
Years tt
Homo Mate. Clsmson.
South Carolina.
Mouth Carolina.
Mouth Curollna.
Mouth Carolina.
Mouth Carolina.
Mouth Carolina.
South Carolina.
South Carolina,
hbuth Carolina.
0 Senior. South Carolina.
1 senior. South Carolina.
0 ......Junior. Mouth Carolina.
0 ...Freshman. Mouth Carolina.
0 ....Freshman. Mouth Carolina.
0 Junior. South Carolina.
1 Senior. South Carolina.
Macon. Oa.. Nov. 17.—AH the ar
rangement. have been made for the
Georgia and Auburn football game that
la to be played In Macon Thureday aft
ernoon at the Central City park.
Georgia la expected to arrive In Ma
con thla afternoon from Athena, and
the Auburn boya will reach here ab >ut
8 o'clock from Alabama.
A .pedal train carrying a large dele
gation of Georgia etudenta will be run
from Athena, but will not reach Macon
until Thankaglvlng morning. Georgia
will eend her braat band, and a large
delegation la alao expected from Au
burn.
The grounda at the Central City park
are In the beat of ahape, and all around
the outer edge of the Acid boxea have
been built. Several thouaand people
are expected to turn out tomorrow aft,
ernoon and wltneee the game.
Very little money luu yet been circu
lated about Macon on the game, but
what baa been bet la going evan.
NO EXCUSES FROM AUBURN
Special to Tba Georgian.
Auburn, Ala., Nov. 17.—The Auburn
football team will leave here today
with twenty player* for Macon to play
their annual game on Thankegtvlng
' with Georgia.
The entire bunch of endete was on
the elde llnee when the uquad went
through their harde.t practice yester
day.
All the regular team and eight nub-
•tltutea were lined up agalnet the sec.
ond team for twenty mlnuten. Their
work was entirely satlatactoiy to both
coaches, and If they fall to win, you
can know that Georgia hoe a first clan,
team.
Not a man on the Auburn team haa
any Injury. They came out of the
game with Alabama without a .cratch
and not a aub.tttute waa used In that
game.
Auburn ho. not .lumped and I. to
day In as good shape ae at any time
this season.
The 1 Auburn second team will play
Coach Tbit's team of the district col
lege at Wetumpka November 28. This
will be their third match game for the
season.
Auburn claims to have the beat sec
ond, third and grass cutter teams In
the South. These three serub teams
will afford some fine material for an
other season. No ringer* need apply.
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NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
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IIHtHHMHMHIl
With the wind-up of the Southern football season, which comes Thursday, there will be the
usual fifty-seven or more staggers at All-Southern and All-S. I. A. A. elevens.
People in this end of the world have practically dropped the All-Southern for the more re-
stricted All-S. I. A. A. team; chiefly because it is out of the question for any one man to have a clear
idea of the personnel of the teams of the entire South. The football South stretches from Ken
tucky to Texas nnd from .Virginia to Arkansas and it’s a wise man who knows the football stars of a
quarter of this territory.
Most of the S. I. A. A. teams play against each other each year, and though a team like L. S. ,
U. is not well known in the middle South, still any phenomenal player of that aggregation would
find his fame fast filtering Atlantaward.
THIS LAD MADE GOOD
sitions.
The writer is not going to pick any All-S. I. A. A. team.
Far from it.
lie leaves that for those with more knowledge and nerve.
He is going to consider, though, the men of the South who are certain of All-S. I. A. A. po-
Vanderbilt has the surest candidates.
The two men over whom there will be no chance of an argument are Bob Blake at end and
“Stein” Stone at center.
You cotildn’t jar’them off the team with nitro-glycerine. They are . not only All-Southern
certainties, but if they played in the East, where Walter Camp and the real sharps had a chance
to see their work, they would be All-American possibilities.
No center of the year has come within a mile of Stone and no one within 1.760 yards of Bob
Blake. ,,
When you dispose of these two men you eliminate all of the men about whom there will be
not an earthly chance of an argument.
“The next on our program” is undoubtedly John Craig. He is pretty certainly the best
halfback of the year in the South, the rooters of “Skinny” Shipp, of Sewanee, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
In fact,-if the writer were going to pick an all-S. I. A. A. team (which he assures you again
he isn’t), he is a little doubtful if Shipp would get a job at all. Until the cloud over Shipp’s ama
teur standing is cleared away and until he can put up a better defensive game than he did against
Tech nnd Georgia, we beg leave to pass him. Shijlp is the best of the “broken fielders” and the
best of the “stiff-nrmers,” and there you have it.
Doubtless Shipp will get a place on the all-S. I. A. A. this year. If he can travel in the
same class with Campbell, of Vanderbilt, though, on^ all-around work it will be a surprise.
However, we’re off the main track that was to'lead us to the all-S. I. A. A. certainties. To
get back again:
“Lex” Stone, of Sewanee, will doubtless get one of the tackles. He did it last year and
precedent is a great help in picking an all-nnything team.
Stone is a wonderfully well-built chap, strong, aggressive, and with a cool head and a com
plete knowledge of football. He has not been playing up to his 1906 form this year, but on gen
eral principles will get the call.
We beg to be excused from picking the other tackle. There are a lot of stars in that posi
tion this year, more than usual, in fact. Vanderbilt hap a pair of good men in McLain and IIoss-
lock. Clemson has'a genuine wonder in McLnurin-and there nre n lot of other good ones.
It is our off-hand opinion that one John Davis, late of American University, will be entitled
to play one of the tackles. If any linesman has anything on him it has not been developed in any
gamo Tech hns played. The choice looks like Stone and Davis, but Stone is the only certainty.
This hns not been a great year for guards. The work of no man has stood out especially in
that position. King and Sherrill, of Vanderbilt, and Henderson and Smith, of Tech, have been
steady performers.
When you get to talking about the V,antlerbilt linesmen you are face to face with a prob
lem. The Vanderbilt line has met only tjjree Southern lines this year, Kentucky, Mississippi and
Tech. But the Commodore forwards haye’hpd no trouble in holding their own in every battle. It
docs not seem probable that the Nashville team was able to pile uii 40 points on Kentucky, 60 on
Mississippi and 54 on Tech simply because Vanderbilt had the better back field.
It is apparent, judged by comparative scores, that Vanderbilt hns a better- team, in almost
every position, than any college of the, South. But this fact will not be considered by the pickers
of an all-S. I. A. A. team and on this count King, Hasslock, McLain nnd probably Sherrill will be
counted out.
The quarterback and fullback positions nnd one end are very open. On everything but
hanaling punts Costen will lend the quarters with ease and despite his weakness in this depart
ment he will doubtless get the call by almost every one. The fullback place is any old man’s job.
If “Chip” Robert had not been knocked out at the atart of the Georgia game and thus cut
out of an opportunity to show what he could do in that contest nnd against, 8ewiineo and Vander
bilt | • would be a strong contender for a job as Boh Blake’s running mate at end. Robert is a
marvellously good man, fast, strong, chunky, a hard tackier and a hard man to tackle. He can
rush with tho ball, burst up interference, tackle the man with the hall, go in as understudy for the
quarterback, plBy a half when needed and is generally speaking the most valuable all-round man
Tech has had in years.
Just by way of a reminiscence last year’s all-S. T. A. A. team is given:
Brown Georgia Tech End
Pritchard Vanderbilt I Tackle
Connor Mississippi Guard
“Stein” Stone Vanderbilt Center
Chorn Vanderbilt Guard
Lex Stone Sewanee Tackle
Bob Blake Vanderbilt . End
Costen ...Vanderbilt Quarterback
Craig Vanderbilt Halfback
Dan Blake v.. . Vanderbilt Halfback
Manier .Vanderbilt Fullback
LOWRY ARNOLD WILL RESIGN AS
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE
It will be up to the Southern League
to elect a new vice president at the
coming meeting In Atlanta.
For Lowry Arnold will not aland tor
re-election. «
"I do not consider that It would be
right for me to nerve In that capacity,"
aatd Mr. Arnold Tuesday. "1 have
severed all connection with the local
association, resigned an director and
sold my stock. Bo I don’t think thkt It
would be right for me to continue aa
vice president of the league.”
There la a likelihood, however, that
Mr. Arnold's resignation will not be ac
cepted. William Kavanaugh, president
of the organization,' does not own a
cent's,worth of ntock In any club and
Is considered a more valuable man In
the position for that reason. The fact
that Mr. Arnold Is no longer a stock
holder In the local association, may be
taken by the league as one of his beat
qualifications for re-election and give
him the job whether he wants It or no.
ANENT THE S. I. A. A.’S PUNISHMENT OF GEORGIA
Percy H. Whiting. Sporting Editor
Georgian:
Dear Percy—In the papers of Sunday
morning 1 read with a nigh of amaae-
ment. sandwiched In between a couple
of dices of amusement, the following
Interesting bite of news—In word* to
this effect:
Report of executive committee of 8.
L A. A.:
"Georgia, you are guilty, do In
peace.”
Naturally, I was a little dated at
the astonishing result of the thorough
Investigation of the committee, and the
horrible punishment meted out to the
offender. Not being an executive com
mitteeman of the 8. I. A. A.—not even
a college professor—I could not quite
catch the drift. I read on.
••Georgia,” reports the executive com
mittee. ”we And that you Imported four
ringers to play with your team against
Tech and paid them handsome sums of
money, the prevention of such things be
ing the main excuse for our existence."
Though they didn't do so, they might
have gone on to report that you held se
cret practice a week or more before the
game In order that the Identity of these
men might not be known; that the men
were not even allowed to register at the
hotel In Atlanta before the game; that
the names were not given out until the
game had begun; that assumed names
were then given.
After omitting tbls the committee
went on to state: "That even before
this you had played two men who had
been distinctly disqualified by the 8.
I. A. A.
"This waa disgraceful, a blot on the
state, on college athletics and the 8. I.
A. A.: therefore—”
Shut your eyes, Percy, so a* hot to
see the awful slaughter of the Inno
cents and prepare to swim through the
tears which will stream from your eyes
as you read of the awful, the horrible
punishment meted out.
"Therefore." says the executive com.
mlttee, "having committed all these
grave and- disgraceful offenses, go In
peace!"
Put I would do the 8. I. A. A. an
Injustice If 1 did not recite the sen
tence pronounced upon Georgia In toto.
In addition to the punishments al
ready recited, the committee asked the
faculty to find out If the captain knew
he was playing Cox. a man whom every
body else knew all along had been dls-
quallded. and furthermore asked the
faculty to And out If the assistant
coach, who came to Georgia about the
same time the ringers came, knew any
thing about what It so dellcattly terms
"the above mentioned Irregularities,"
Asked the faculty, which did not
know something which the Atlanta pa
pers had been full of for fully a week
and which even Grantland Rice, way up
In Nashville, had published, to Inves
tigate these things!
And the committee further chastised
HUGH DOUGLAS.
Here is ths ex-Univtrsity of Tennessee football player who wont to I
Annapolis and is now tho otar of tho Navy team.
BIGEVENTW1LLBE
THANKSGIVING GAME
Tech Is Crippled But Hopeful—Clemson Is
Stronger Than Ever—Good
Game Sure.
The climax of the Atlautii football »**aHon.
the biff wht-cxe In gridiron circle*, the loud
nol*e In the plgfkln world—the Clemson-
Tech game, conic* Thursday afternoon at
Tonce DeLeon park.
The fcRtlve hour I* 2:39—which wo* wisely
selected aa being Ju*t abaft some people’*
dinner hour nnd Just /intern of the other
chops'. Also, It Is sufficiently close to sun
rise so that, barring too inttuy accidents, the
lusty doings will be orer before dork nnd In
time so everybody eon dress for the night's
doings—Iwfore It I* next morning.
(liven the proper weather—and the sharps
In the sunshine shop any we con count ou It
—the game Thanksgiving Day will be n
large celebration—Judged from its f«N»tball,
amusement, social nnd other viewpoint*.
As an amusement event the game put* It
nil over anything that the theater* offer.
Somehow football aud Thanksgiving Day
are u» closely asaocinted *■ turkey nnd
cranberry sauce, nnd you can’t separate
them with on nx—nnd don’t want to.
If you eat the "Mg doings" in the middle
of the day you need the football game ns
an aid to digestion. If the large feed Is still
ahead of you at 2:90, why nothing bents the
game to put a large, keen edge on your ap
petite.
The Thanksgiving football game draws
people who do uot turn out any other day In
the year to Met* a gridiron battle, ('bnure*
are that some of them will not know
thrnnghout the whole contest which team is
which—and will not care. They don’t know
n goal post from a touebtmek and glory In
It. But the tingle of the game gets In their
blood now nnd then nnd stirs them ns noth
else can.
e make.lt n careful point never to stray
Into the preserves of the society depart*
ment, hut In passing we can not overlook
the fact that the Tech-CIeinson foot 1stII
game, a* much heroine it come* on Thanks
giving Day as for any other reason. Is be
ginning to be a big affair socially. At thati
It is a couple of hmulreil miles tiehind the'
big games in the East and North, In that
respect. Time will l*\ though, when socie
ty folks will ponr out In as large proportions
ns the football fans for the Thanksgiving
Day game, and thl* Thursday will *«*e a
larger delegation than ever ln*fore.
But ns a football game—well, now you re
shouting. , ,
Tech I* getting Into shape. Conch Ih‘b»-
man hammered the last fine points into the
squad Tuesday nfteruoou and Wednesday
the players w/ll get n rent. Only light *•>»■
mil practice is ou the program.
The Tech team Is not In perfect condition.
Not by a lot. More than naif of the nieiu-
Ixirs of the team nre more or less crippled
and three star regulars are oat tor sun 1 .
not Coach Heistnan has patched the re
mains together to the heat of his very de
cided n I duty and It will l*e rt fairly * front
team which faces the South Carolina IIgef*.
The tact that the Clemson team Is In g«*~
trim and Tech Is not will make Clemson the
hot favorite. It looks as though the Nmth
Carolinian* ought to win. But you never
i tell.
The Clemson team which face* Techwm
average iu weight about 170 pounds. r-j«ry
iiinu on the team is a native Month J
Uulsn. The average attendance nt tlenieon
of the men of the team previous to tm
session i* three years. Bight wen on
tentu are juniors, one is a senior aim
are freshmen.
Not one man on the entire Clemson team
ever played on any prep team or ,
other college, and every otfe of them learn J
every hit of football nt Clemson.
The Tiger, left I’leroson nt own *
ilay aim .pent Wednesday night »• " L
er.nw, Thursday morning they move
Atlanta. , f „i.
Malinger fioodler hns nnnouuwd the r ,
losing price.: Grandstand,
grnudstnnd. >|.toker, 25- cents extra, box
Th.''?n"r , r , '.lde line, whleb tM
vtoli, game, been opeu. sill he ‘, 5,,
i.'pt to nntnmobllea, the ''hn r *^ '*> „n
rents a person, a, for boxes. Ticket. «rf£
•oito at the r.dtf'gr <’<vnp store. Turolfn ,
eland, ut KlkluWatklni. Mtepheii* *
Empire Imlldlng: (loodruu a Alabama «
a tore; box seat, nt College Cmop «-
grandstand nt each place.
Georgia by Arina the coach who had
already left Georala!
Why not ask Cox and Roaslter did
they knss- they srere disqualified? Why
not oak the ringers did they know they
“rung?"
Oh, Percy! Oh, you 8. I. A. A.! Oh,
you Bowcock. and oh. you Whitney!
Oh, you Cox Band you Reseller! Oil,
you Neal, you Martel), and oh, you
Edmondifon! Oh, me; oh, my; oh, Ad-
dlesttcks!
"Bless you, my angels, bless you!”
J. D. GORTATOWSIO-.
P. S.—Suppose hereafter Teelt or Se
wanee or Vanderbilt Pla>'« ‘ w . n
after they are disqualified
four men for the especial P“ r J > , s f ve n
playing a certain game, admit It.
brag about It. Georgia did It and
off with the trick; can not they.
N. B.-Also, to prove professional*?
hereafter, 1 suppose a person roti._t
tually see the money passjd over o(
give a photographic reproducti n
that, and must hear the man sa?'
take this money as pay tor P|*>! n " ..
the game with such-and-such ac
lege." and he must give a phonograP"
reproduction of that. Eh. P ,r, T'
Percy! J- D -