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THE RED AND BLACK
Page Seven
Georgia Beats Virginia Poly To Open 1931 Season
V.P.I. Downed
By Georgia in
Opening Game
Bulldogs Conceal Heal Power.
Depend on Line Tliursts
For Score
Coach Harry Melt re
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At Father's Bedside
Displaying unusual driving power,
Georgia’s Bulldogs subdued Virginia
Polytechnic institute 40-0 here Sat
urday in their opening game of the
season. Fifteen thousand spectators,
the largest crowd ever to witness a
Bulldog opener, cheered the Bull
dogs to victory.
It took but a pair of minutes for
the .Bulldoga to score jtheir first
touchdown. Receiving the ball well
In their own territory, the Bulldogs
marched straight down the field to
score a touchdown on five succes
sive first downs. Jack “Tho Rip
per” Roberts, who led the nation in
scoring part of last season, took the
ball over for the marker.
Marion Dickens, All-Southern
halfback last fall, scored the second
touchdown after Captain Austie
Downes had returned a V. P. I. punt
to the Gobblers’ 45-yard line. The
Bulldogs’ were aided by Downes’ 25-
yard run around end, and line
plunges by Chandler and Dickens.
Hamrick Intercepts Pass
Then Big Jim Hamrick, regular
tackle, galloped seventy yards to
glory on the heels of a Gobbler pass
that he intercepted on Georgia’s 30
yard line. Surrounded by a convoy
of teammates, Hamrick went across
the goal line standing up. “Catfish”
Smith failed to make the extra point
and it was 19-0, Georgia.
Coach Harry Mehre then ran in
his second team, and before the half
ended, Jodie Whire, Albany sopho
more, galloped 24 yards through the
entire Virginia team for the fourth
touchdown. Sullivan kicked the ex
tra point, and the score was 26-0
Georgia.
Jack Roberts and Homer Key
Georgia’s midget, scored the remain
iug touchdowns. Roberts took the
ball over early in tho third quarter,
Key ran through the entire Virginia
team on two eighteen yard runs that
put the pigskin across the Virginia
goal line for the final tally of the
game.
Harry Mehre, head coach of
the Georgia football team, was
called to the bedside of his
father, who is critically ill in
his Hammond, Ind., home.
Coach Mehre left early Tues
day morning.
The Red and Black extends
the sympathy of the university
student body to Coach Mehre,
and takes this opportunity of
wishing his father a speedy
recovery.
Thru Al’s Eyes
”Rats” Show Power
In Beating Mercer
By Score of 20-0
Thousands Cheer
As Georgia Team
Leaves for Yale
Blasts of "Glory, Glory to Old
Georgia," “Wreck Ell,” and other
spirited songs resounded from the
hills surrounding the Seaboard sta
tion Wednesday night as the Georgia
Bulldogs embarked for New Haven,
where they will meet the Bulldogs
of Yale Saturday.
Aided by the voices of nearly a
thousand supporters of the Red and
Black, the Georgia band, recently
increased to about 80 pieces, let
Athens and the world know that
they were pulling for the Bulldogs
The band headed a mammoth parade
to the station from the university
chapel, where, as an added 3pur to
the team, a “pep” meeting was held
Several fans and students will be
on the special train bearing the Bull
dogs to the scene of the conflict,
while some three hundred others will
travel through the country in every
thing from Cadillacs to Model “T”
A powerful but raggod-playing
Georgia freshman team downed the
Mercer cub eleven, 20 to 0, last week
on Sanford practice field, annexing
the first Georgia freshman win over
Mercer yearling team in three
years.
Twelve of Mercer’s eighteen play
ers made the trip, and in spite of the
stream of fresh reserves that Coach
Broadnax sent into the game, the
Bullpups could register but seven
points until the closing minutes of
the fray. Mercer’s dogged defense
broke down in the last few minutes
of the game, and Georgia crossed the
goal twice to win by a comfortable
margin.
Early Score
The first marker was registered
in the initial quarter. After failing
to gain from mid-field, Georgia
elected to kick and Haupt punted
beautifully out of bounds on Mer
cer's three-yard line. The Maconitos
then punted to Georgia’s twenty-nlno-
yard stripe. Haupt traveled to tho
fifteen-yard line, and on the next
play Wilkos thrust at tackle, cut
back, and crossed the goal standirg
up. Haupt plunged through conter
for the extra point. Mercer began
to fight at this juncture, and held
the Bullpups in check for two quart
ers and nearly all of the final period.
Last Minute Points
With two minutes to play, Georgia
blocked a Mercer punt and started
another march down the field with a
fresh line paving the way. Martin
reeled off five yards, and Grant car
ried the ball to the five-yard stripe
on a twenty-two-yard gallop. Kim-
By A1 Smith
Georgia’s Bulldogs are in Bridge
port, Conn., today awaiting the
starting gong of their last game
with Yale, at least their last for a
couple of years. Saturday afternoon
they will trot Into the Yale Bowl for
the kickoff, the same bowl where
Captain Austie Downes and his
teammates made history last year as
they beat Yale 18-7, the rightful
score.
Yale, as popular opinion agrees,
will have a good team this fall.
They have added a new man to their
staff a'nd have adopted a /‘make
shift” Notre Dame syBtem. Adam
Walsh, famous Rockne center of
past years, and Benny Friedman,
Michigan’s All-American quarter
back and one of the greatest passers
of all time, are expected to add some
thing to Yale’s attack this fall. And
then there is always the threat of
little Albie Booth, Yale’s demon
halfback, playing his last game
against the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs are given an even
chance to whip Yale, and your cor
respondent picks the Red Bul\doga
to win decisively. However, any
thing can happen this early in the
season and Yale will be set for
Georgia. Mai Stevens and his as
sistants make no bones about ad
mitting that they are pointing for
Harry Mehre’s boys.
So you can take your pick. Yale
or Georgia. Georgia or Yale. 1’U
take Georgia.
mained after the heat of battle had
died away:
.... the shouts of ten thousand
high school kids when the Bulldogs
trotted on the field Just before game!
time .... sentiment among the
kids seemed to be divided between
'itfish Smith, Austie Downes, and
Jack Roberts .... Incidentally, Aus
tie, who comes from Chicago, is now
a full-fledged citizen of the sover
eign state of Georgia .... he regis-
ered at tho Clarke county court
house and cast his first vote recently
.... so now it's Colonel Downes, of
Georgia, suh! .... the way the Bull
dogs took the ball down the field
after that opening kick off ... .
Jack Roberts ripping over for his
first touchdown of the year . .
Jack will have a great year this
fall, as will those other seniors on
the Bulldog squad .... the “speed”
with which big Jim Hamrick re
turned an Intercepted pass seventy
yards for a touchdown .... Homer
Key, who may out-Albie Yale's
Mister Booth, carrying the ball 62
yards for a touchdown only to have
the play called back .... Jodie
Whire playing fullback and doing
plenty of good work .... Catfish
"’mith punting seventy yards from
behind his own goal line—and they
■ailed the ball back .... a Georgia
stude (supposedly) bragging be
tween halves In the press box that
Georgia was going to “lick the tar
ut of those Yale guys next
Saturday.” .... A big man, to
whom the student was addressing his
remarks, saying, “That's nice, son
ny” .... someone pointing out the
big man later as Adam Walsh, Yale
■oach .... a young lady Just be
low the press box asking, as the
game drew to a close, who was lead
ing, Georgia or Virginia? .... ten
thousand high school kids departing
for home after the thrill that comes
once in a lifetime .... a lone fresh
man pulling the chapel bell long
ifter midnight ....
PALACE
1 -MONDAY and TUESDAY
GKO. ARLISS
—IN —
“Alexander
& Hamilton
That V. P. I. Game
Along with some fifteen thousand
other Bulldog supporters the writer
attended the opening battle with
V. P. I. last Saturday and watched
the Bulldogs display a great deal of
power in beating a game team from
Virginia Tech.
Just a few Impressions that re-
brell scored on a plunge through the )
lino, and the kick for the extra point j
wont wild.
Martin hurled a beautiful pass
from mid-field Just before the game
ended, and Wilkes carried it across
the line. On the try for extra point,
the snap went wild and Martin scoop
ed up the ball and raced around end
for the final point.
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them, left Tuesday, planning to ar
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