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University ofUeorgia, Athens,Ga., November 9, 1895.
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ATHLETICS.
Several pleading siguii were evident at
our first game with North Carolina.
The men from Einory allowed them
selves to he possessed of 21 broad spirit
and wore Georgia colon*. fids wan in
marked contrast to the action of the
Techs last year. After they had been
strengthen the team greatly. Stubbs sum
taincd rather serious injuries in the Car
olina game, hut lie will play Saturday.
So unless Alabama is very weak, the
game in Columbus will be far from a
snap.
If our boys would only play the ball
that they played in the second half of
overwhelmingly defeated l.y Auburn— 1 the game Tliur»d»y with Vortli Carolina,
s ore ninety-four to nothing-they enme the college could count on the rest of
out Thanksgiving day bedecked in the the guinea this year as ours. Their de
colors of the Alabama college ; thus fensive game was great, and they went
showing that their motto was "anything through North Carolina’s line and
rather than * Athens. By their fool-; around their ends with surprising ease,
ish liets and petty spirit, they made very Stubbs’ tackling was splendid; six times
few admirers for themselves. They j„ t|„. K „„„, they got back to him with
could not realize that we were their su- [ Interference, and live times he got the
periors in atraiyht foot-ball. msm.
The Emory men are. we think, fonts That is one thing our men do not do
next to their own college ; and why so well ; our interference seems to go to
shouldn't they be? This year we have pieces after the line has he. •n passed,
put forth a team that the whole State North t’arnlinVs always continues uutiI
may well be proud of and that no one : the man lias been downed,
will regret to bear called (r><*rgiu. So 1
here's to Emory and her broad-minded
boys!
Sewnnee lias certainly been Mawing
It isn’t every year that brings forth wood while saying nothing. Their sliow-
a great revolution in foot-ball,and never, ing against North Carolina was a snr-
we believe, until now, has a Southern prise to all who had trusted the /'a«y»/e'«
man made of the game such exhaustive statement that foot-hall there was “in a
study as to bring forth anything that precarious condition.** The jubilaliey
startled the foot-ball public. In lK.lg of that paper last week was in a marked
or *93 Dcland evolved Ids wonderful contrast to the despondency that has
•‘chess-board” opening play, which i marked its former issues. The tie game
made such effective gains for the (.’rim- is looked upon as being as good as a vie*
son eleven; inlsid, Woodruff, Pennsyl- [ tory, which it really was, considering
vania’s master-coach, revolutionised in- the score by which North Carolina de-
terfcience witli his groat mass-pl tys. I fcaUd Sewanee last year. The team at
This vcaijn^y#* 10. euoc'fr^n Id-imo* >!«»• *»«> .id rode*. \ hm»«*u;oooUfw Vlrglntn.
selves at Scwance and Nashville «»f being
clean and gentlemanly ball players. They
meet Virginia on Thanksgiving day.
Alabama lias played no games as yet,
but is practicing hard. They seem to
be having the same trouble that Sewanee
experienced with a manager who be
lieves that “Silence is golden.” We
have been able to learn very little
about their team. It is said that their
guards are very heavy. Their team last
year was one of the strongest in the
South, defeating both Auburn and Sc
w a lice by good scores. They say they
hope to interest us to-day
FOOTBALL IN THE SOUTH.
News from Auburn is very scarce, as
the Ortiwj? •mil Mn> lias not made its
appearance this year. e know that
they are hard at work and resolved to
wipe out the defeat of last Thanksgiv
ing Day. Several of their men were in
Atlanta watching our play in the game
with Carolina. Glenn their weighty
guard is back. Tb lienor is still at qiiar-
ter. Ileiiman, their trainer, is said to
be one of the finest in tin* country.
Assistant; ('. Akcrman, Second Assis
tant; Fred. Morris, First Censor; Elsin-
ger. Second Censor.
The subject of debate was : Resolved.
That the signs of the times and past
history point to the fall of the govern
ment of the U. N., through causes simi
lar to those that worked the destruction
of the nations of antiquity
The leaders were Spain and Harris.
T'lie negative gained the decision.
Tin* question for to-day is: Resolved,
That Inter--Collegiate Athletic (’on-
tests arc productive of more evil than
good. Affirmative leaders, Holden,
Moore and Jones. Negative leaders,
Stephens, .1. If., Stovall and Harris.
WHY I M NOT AT HOME TO STUDENTS.
My f ollege friend comes early,
And - early leaves he too,—
lb* comes at \ to VIII o’clock,
And slides
at X to II.
At VII1 lie talks of Hr. Iloggs ;
At I X uncut Ills rise.
Riley is his theme at X -,
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drill and eyes.
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listory. Our own dear'Vanity is great
ly honored for her terrible blunders in
Saturday's game -the blunder of tack
ling low -is the basis of the new theory.
While we hate for our men to make su -It
had errors, still we are too sportsman
like to regn t them when thorn errors
form the ground-work for such an
excellent article as was in the Sun lay
Constitution of October twenty-ninth,
viz : the report of the Georgia-North
Carolina game. Pleasant Indeed must
iiave been the surprise for North Caro
lina when they found that Instead of
their high tackling living roundly mo red,
as they had confidently expected, our
genius commended it in the highest
terms ; and poor old Georgia, who
pluckily dived for the knees of their op
ponents, as Hinkev, or Phil King, or
Left, or Gilbert, would have clone, were
told that their tackling was miserable!
It is to lie hoped that tk « article was
Virginia lias lieen having secret pntr
tier of late. Their team has been in a
crippled condition from the effects of
the game with Pennsylvania, l'enton,
Whaley and .Jackson were obliged to
stay out of tho recent game with Roan
oke, which accounts for the small score,
the Chapel Hill men m iking only four
teen to their opponent's nothing. Higgs,
with whom many of us are familiar as
St. Albans' full-ha* k. is playing quarter gij
They nre at* prcM r»v try
fast, and it w is due to the superior quick
ness of the Tenn nascent ns that the Tar
Heels failed to score. The game wu*4l
sh<*rt and the Sewanee men were on the
defensive most of the time. Carolina,
it is true, played several substitutes, hut
the result of the contest shows that if
we reverse the aeon* of last year on the
eighteenth, it will lie only after a hard
struggle. Whitaker, who was a substi
tute last year, is now playing an end.
The two Kirb)-Smiths :•* tackier* jii
slid to lie very formidable. Sewanee
defeated ( ilmticriand University by u
good score last Week,
In;, to arrange games with Washington
and Lee, Schuylkill N vy, oliirnlii.t A til
Ic. lull, ami St. Albans.
THE LITERARY SOCIETIES.
i.ast Saturday's mkktixos in tiik hk
MOSTIII1NIAM AMI Pill KAPPA.
Since Vanderbilt's defeat at the hau ls
of North ( arolina, the thret old players
who up to that time had not appeared
on the field, although they were in col
lege, have made up their niuds to come
t i the aid of the team an I Hildebrand,
Hattie ami Malone will probably be
not seen by Casper Whitney or Walter against us when we meet them in Nash*
C'amp, for it would have iro.i a great
blow to them to tin 1 that all of their
study of the game was in vain, and that
they really had been advocating false
Ideas all these years.
vilte. Davis, who was a tackle in the
North Carolina game, has stopped
playing
Vanderbilt plays Virginia in Atlanta
on the HHh.
IlKMOSTIIKNl AN.
The meeting of tluf Deiuostfienian on
Nov. Vnd was called to older by the
President, Mr. G. P. Hunt.
Messrs Cochran, Morris, Huggins,
llov./.<• and (fholston Were elected lll.ilil-
Imih. Mr. Wedding ton appointed Soph.
Reclaimer, responded with a splendid
ora ion. Mr. F. it. Mitchell was inau
gurated Vice President.
Tiie mill ret of debate was, Itesolvcd,
Tint the students of the University of
Georgia should not fie compelled to join
the Literary Societies. The speakers on
the affirmative were: Stevens, leader;
Dgslier, Griffeth, Kent, Upshaw, Wynn,
Cochran, Kennoii. Tie negative was
upheld by Messrs. H ndricks, leader,
Ibidd, Neal, Thompson, Whittle and
Wedding ton The President gave Ids
dlcinion in favor of the negative.
The game with Alabama is all uncer- North Carolina's recent trip, while it ''The subject for to day is. Resolved,
tain. While it is true that last year they did not result in placing t!*e big scon s ^ |J%| t j M , |* n fu. 4 | stab s stiould recognise
) beat both Auburn and Sewanee badly, to her credit that many of the admirers the lisligcren* y of Cuba. leading dis
putants. Jones, F. S.. and Walker, < . M.
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they lost nearly all of their good mm,
Auburn claims, on account of the South
ern Intercollegiate.
The prospects of football *.\»rc are l»y
no means as bright as they were two
weeks ago. With Moore out of the
line, the team is undoubtedly weakened:
while the loss of Morris, wki will not
be able to play for two weeks on account
of her team had expected, was still a
triumphal march unchecked by a single
defeat. The Tir ifr-l siys that the rea
son they made no better allowing against
Georgia was that their men bud traveled
all tlie night Indore the game. The same
pajier also stated that our team out-
weighed theirs and was in a better phy
sical condition. We m^y lie jiermitted
of hi* injuries, is irreparable. Morris Uiexpres^Yur doubt* aittto the correct
ts, witliout a doubt, the be*t defensive ness of/dje aescjrfiqn Jwgardlng the
half the college has ever lera ; we f>e-* W^lgWtw ^*l»e /ffiirvi men in M1 _
Here him to be the best §£,the Month, the^econd game fully justified the rep- fo^iie ensuing term were elected: J
Clarke when he geU in training, will utation they l^d established 1u% them \\ >p»in, PresbUtfit: Lnuryeiue. Fust
Htfbject for Nov. I*Jt!i, Unsolved, Tliat
tl'/’ie is more pleasure in hope than in
memory Lading disputants, Walter
ami Upshaw.
a I'll IK API'A.
Tin* Phi Kappa Society met last Hatur-
d y with Vice President Teasley in tlie
d air. Messrs. Crawford, Calhoun, H.
M^Johnson, Whitaker and A. Clarke
wi re elected members and initiated.
•n.e following officers of the Society
XI lie laughs at Zvpie puns,
At XII it's absence lies,
His gul at Lucy Cobb at I ;
At II—
Again Ids rise.
.Swk.kt (i. Gkaihatk.
/. weeT of PRAYER.
Thi Inter national Committee of the
V. M. (’. A. lias set apart the week be-
inning witli Sunday. Nov, ltytfr. as
k of prayer, toboobserved through-
out the world, wherever Association* are
established. During the week prayer
will 1m m ule especially for tin* young
men of tho whole world.
On Sunday, Nov. loth, some of the
pastor* of the city will, either at morn
ing or evening service, preach a special
sermon on the importance of definite ef
fort for tin* salvation of young uu*n.
During tlie week there will he held a
dally prayer meeting in the College As
social Ion rooms, at which sll 1 hristlan
students are urged to unite in prayer for
tin* young men of our colleges and
country.
On the I7th, the College Association
will unite in a service with the City As
sedation. They will probably he ad-
pressed hy F.vangelist Williamson.
L< t all Christian* remember young
men by praying in their behalf.
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•• CONSTANCY.'
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When »ny 1 wly smiles, o’er her dimpled
cheek,
A thousand Cupid’s play hide and seek,
And out from the depth of tier wondrous
eyes
A dart from tin* H1 irid God's quiver flies,
And pierces whoever is standing near.
However bold an 1 unknown to fear
That one may be. For my lady knows
Tin* weapon to into ’gainst friends or
foes. *
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When my truly asks in her low sweet
Voice
For something she wishes, whatever her
choice,
She always secures it if I am tlie re.
To heed tlie behests of my lady so fair.
L’Envoi.
Hut wh<n aiy lady goes out to Piaisancu
if .ghts.
To ride on the camels and s *e all the
sights
1’liat are to Ire seen at Atlanta's great
Fair,
I never go with her. I am no millionaire.
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