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Stirring Football Promised in Vandy-Georgia Battle at Ponce Tomorrow
GAME MAY DECIDE THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF SOUTH
By [’( r<-\ 11. Whiting.
rrxHE Vanrlerbjit mini Is here,
I under the stalwart chap
eronage of H.ea<l *'<>a<h ban
MeGugin and Assistant *’oac!res
Dr. .Maniei and Stein" Smite. The
Georgia team will be her. in good
time tomorrow morning’. Goal
poets have hern erected at Pom®
DeLeon perk and the field has been
marked off in the conventional
gridiron pattern.
In fact, the stage is all set for
what should be the greatest foot
ball battle that Atlanta has ever
•een.
This game marks the strongest
bid that a Georgia team has be.-n
able to make in the bm ten y<ms
or mote for tht elmmpmns.ilp of
the South.
Georgia has been gaining football
strength steadf'x for three years.
This year it is stronger than it
Iras been in years stronger pet
hape than it has ever be. u before
in all its history. It lias a "first"
team of husky, experienced foot
ball players, and it has substitutes
of the most unusual ability. It
has been well coached by Head
t'oaeh Alec Cunningham and by
his assistant, Howard Keti'on. If
ever a Georgia team had a chance
for the championship, this is the
t ea m.
And if ever the time was ripe for
a Georgia team to win a cham
pionship. Saturday is the time.
Is Vandy So Strong?
The Vanderbilt team, chronic
champions of the South, are tout
ed this year as being exceptionally
strong. Possibly they are Their
early scores show it. and they
rolled up a greater tolal of pointe
in their first three games than any
other team In the i'nited States
Yet experts are still to lie shown!
Vanderbilt had a good team last
year, one of the best In Its history.
Rut ,it lost from hist year’s eleven
three of Its very best men. three of
the best men who ever played In
the South—Ray Morrison. "Bl*
i'n" Freeland and "Frog" Metz
ger. Not event the most rampant
Vanderbilt enthusiast ciaims that
their places have been even half
way filled. True, the other men on
the team have rounded out. and It
Is a smooth aggregation. But it can
not possibly be as strong now as
the Vanderbilt team of 1911.
On the other hand. Georgia
should he right now stronger than
any Athens team of recent football
history . 'I he material is there.
The coach is there The men have
been well handled and well condi
tioned. Certainly this team is ma
terially stronger than the one
which last y cat's strong Vanderbilt
eleven defeated.
Os course, no sane dopester
would actually tom Georgia as the
winner Our own opinion is that
Vanderbilt will win. At the same
time every student of the game
feels that on Saturday afternoon
the Gold and Black team will get
one of the toughxft sts of all its
long hiMory
South's Best Game Sure.
It looks like the greatest game
of the yeat in Dixie, 'inly three
other contests compare with it
the Vanderoiit-Vi>ginia. the Van
derbilt-Aunmn and the Vanderbilt-
Sewanee contests. Ami it Is a
known fact that the I'omnmdmes
look on todays game with the
greatest apprehension I’hey fed
confident that if they <an get
away with Georgia the rest, with
the exveptlor of ILnarrl, will be
err Ay
The t’onimodot'es f»-.i • Bob .Mc-
Whorter a« well they may. The'
feared him lan; year, but they
found he was very targP.y the
'hoi* Red and Black team then
Their defense lort' ted in one «e>,
play "Block Rob McWhorter"
and it saved them This year Me-
Whorter. still the stat, is far from
the whole team ‘l’hey nlpy block
him . old and sti'l ■>:<•»[ defeat lb •
what • a ot more likr-iy to happen
* f ' what they fee’ most i« tha*
fh ®‘ ,-n o- to block h m will be
frustrated by the other membets
of the Georgia team and that this
most brilliant of Southern backs
will get free often enough to get
straightened out for a run to the
■ goal line. If he gets thus straight
ened out a fewstimes good-night.
Vanderbilt!
Crowd Will Be, There.
Judged by the irttiTest displayed
in the game, the crowd which
will witness it will be one of the
largest that ever saw a football
game in Atlanta. The football
"STIFF-ARM” WILL BE
MUCH USED THIS YEAR
By Monty.
New York, oct is rhe fa
mous "stiff arm." one of the
greatest offensive plays in all
football, and one of the least trn
d -Istood, seems likely' to be mighty
popular this year, and of greater
usefulness than ever before.
The efficient, use of the stiff arm
by Yale’s famous player, Walter
Vamp. Jr. has done as much as
anything else to bring the play
\lnto prominence
Camp Goes Either Way.
Like other experts with lite stiff
atm. t’ump uses the arm to lite
right and the turn Io the left, but
he uses it just long enough to get
(lie defensive back in tire habit of
looking, for it Then he changes
his tactics when the opportunity
presents itself, and, taking the
tackler by surprise, throws him
straight across in front of his own
body, and. swerving sharply In the
direction in which the arm was
first used, continues on his original
course. Cleverly used—and (’amp
is clever with if*—that maneuver is
baffling in the extreme, and some
of the best tacklers are fooled by
11. The method takes account of
the natural brace and shift of
wetglit to meet tlte customary stiff
arm. and as a result the tackler
Is.taken oft itis balance and some
times rather easily thrown across
It Is next to impossible to get
under the "him. and most coaches
teach the tackler to break through
ft, with the chest at the same time
thrown across tile runner's legs, but
with a shifty , long striding back of
the Vamp var iety the perfect tar klb
is not always possible, apd the de
fensive player must trail his man
as host he r an.
"Stiff Arm" Not Slugging.
It would be a good plan, perhaps,
to explain right here that in the
minds of those who tree not skilled
In the intricacies of footbail the
stiff arm is often confused with
slugging tactics. Groansand hisses
are often heard in the stand when
a tackler is staved off by the stiff
arm. The trick as all football inen
know, is done with the open hand
against the head or shoulder of the
tackler, and the very tern; "stiff
arm" precludes the possibility of a
blow. Rough players it is true,
have used the doubled-up fist on
more than one occasion, but this is
hardly enough to r tmflemn the le
gitimate use of one of the prettiest
maneuvers in the game.
in tire old days there was a
for in of stiff arm used on the de
sense that had as much .<» any
thing to d<> with the abolition of
hurdling. Spirit; Ellis of Ila I\ar d.
Weekes of < 'oiurnbhr. amt a host of
others will remember it well. In
those ria's tin hurdler rose up on
the backs of his Interference, and
as th, pile was pulled down, shot
on over the mess f or his distance.
It was an effective, if dangerous,
play and for a lime was used all
over the country.
How Hurdling Was Blocked. ,
Thon tht defense found a solu
tion. as is th® custom of the de
fense. ind it was this solution that
j helped mirk the end of hurdling.
I As th- hum c r rose the backs
-THETtTLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1912.
fans ar, wise Io the fact that this
will Ire one of THE contests of the
year, and they are apparently all
making their plans to be out for
the excitement.
There is much disappointment
among local motorists over the
rule forbidding any motor rars on
the side lines. Tltf reason for mak
ing this rule is evident enough,
hut those who have watched the
games from their own machines
are keenly regretful that it has
been passed.
of his interference, ,his head came
up into, the open, and a defensive
back wife told off to do nothing
but meet the runner's chin with the
stiff; arm. Thig process threw the
limner's head back sharply, even
though it was not a blow, and re
sulted now and then in a set ions
Injury Just why nobody was per
manently hurl in the proeess'np one
knows to this‘day.
Open field hurdling meant, of.
etmi’se, that the tackler ran the
risk of being kicked in the face,
but. after all. lire defensive stiff
arm was one of the most danger*
ous features of the hurdling meth
od. These old tricks of the game,
fortunately, have been abolished,
and the stiff arm is once more
what it was original.; intended to
be a perfectly legitimate aid to
tire runner'.
So important was rhe stiff arm
considered at Princeton last year,
where the runners were fast but
light, that the coaches set a series
of posts in the ground at irregular
intervals, their padded tops at just
about the height of a tackler’s
head. In and out between these
posts the backs were run. each
man giving the stiff arm 10 every
post. It was something like the
schooling of polo ponies between
-lakes. Tlie result was apparent
ear ly in tile season, for the Prime
ton barks did better w ork with the
stiff arm than did the runners on
any other team.
BOYS HI AND G. M. A.
TIE UP IK GRID GAME
The Boys High school football team
will make its 1912 preyi league debut
against tire Georgia .Military academy
this afternoon at G, M. A. Both teams
regard this as a heavy game, and have
been working earnestly of late.
Although the G. M A. team won the
fpotball championship last year, their
present team consists mostly of raw
material, while the R. H. S. team will
enter the fray with a team of vet
erans.
Tile G M. A team will possess the
greater , ontirlencc because of its re
cent victory over Tech High and be*
, ause of its unbroken string of victo
ria- over B. H. S. in the past.
G M. A. has the best coached team,
arid will be in better training, yet B. H
S. will depend on freak [days and for
i war-d passes to overcome these dtsad
; antages.
17-YEAR-OLD LAD DIES
FROM BLOW ON THE JAW
SHAMOKIN. PA.. Oct. is.—Clyde
Lincoln, a 17 veai-old pugilisi of \V|l-
I liamsport. died at Sunbury, Pa., yes
jieirla; from inju res inflicted by Reno
r Bell Tyson, a negro boxer of ilarrls-
I burg, in a six-round trout la-r night
| Lincoln was knocked unconscious by a
| blow on th, jaw in the fourth round
land never recovered. Tyson was ar
rested.
MORDECAI BROWN WILL
LEAD LOUISVILLE CLUB
CHICAGO. Oct. IH. Mot'deeai Brown,
former pitch®' so ; the Chicago Na
tional league baseball dub released to
the L' Uf’ville club of th® American as.
so, ration. Is to l>® manager of th’e
Louis; ili® team, a position now vacant,
tie, ording to ‘ rej.ort here yesterday
McGugiif s Career in
South Has Been One
of Continuous Success
Nashville, te-nn., oct. is.—
Dan MeGugin. football coach,
is known all over the South
and West, and even in some sec
tions of the more or le- benighted
East. Danied E. MeGugin. attorney
at law. prominent citizen of Nash
ville. and prime mover in some of
the largest business enterprises in
the entire South, is not so well
known.
There was a time, in 1904, when
a new coach came to Vanderbilt.
That was the last new' one, up to
the present and into the future, for
he lias been there ever since. He
came out of the West, whereas
Vanderbilt coaches had been com
ing from the East. He was young,
and just out of eollegrx He Jxnew
no one in Nashville, and the South
had never heard of him to any ex
tent. Even the spelling of his
name was a. sort of stumbling
block to the sporting writers, and
some of them made him "McGul
gpn."
In 1903 Vanderbilt had had a
fairly good average team. It had
beaten Sewanee by one scratch
touchdown, but had lost to Cum
berland in the first game of the
season and was hopelessly tied up
with three oilier teams for the
championship at the end.
Before the season of 1904 was
half gone, the men that journeyed
up to Nashville to play Vanderbilt
went home with strange stories of
a race of long, rangy men that
moved terrible swiftness about
their- w or k of piling up scores. That
was where MeGugin had come in.
MeGugin Born in lovva.
From that day to this MeGugin
has been known of all Southern
football, but even yet the football
follower knows very little about the
other side of MeGugin. His his
tory is brief, but crowded with the
tilings he lias done. He was born
in Tingley, la., 33 years ago. He
received his fiterary education at
Drake university. Des Moines, la.,
arid incidentally took up his foot
ball education. He played on the
Drake team two years, and made a
reputation as a lineman that ex
tended over the middle West.
His law course was taken at the
great Michigan law school, and
there, under "Hurry t’p” Yost, Ire
received the finishing touches on
his football tra’ining, as well as his
legal learning. He played two
years on the big Michigan teams of
1901 and 1902, and in 1903, being
then in his senior year, and hav
ing played out his allotted span of
collegiate football, he turned in and
helped Yost develop that team.
In 1904 he came South, spending
the football season in Nashville
and the rest of the year in Detroit,
where he practiced law. More and
more his interests became South
ern. however, and especially his in
ter, -t in the Nashville girl who be
came Mrs. MeGugin. Finally, two
years after coming to Vanderbilt,
he signed as athletic director for
the entire year, and in addition to
no tching look on the w or k of teach
ing a eltrss In constitutional law.
r’oach MeGugin is also Professor
MeGugin
Dan Becomes a Southerner.
He o|>ened a law ottice in Nash
vill,. and. unlike some lawyers who
open ottii es. also began to practice.
Nashville people found that be
knew law and could practice it just
as lie knew football and could teach
it. He not ,mly became prominent
in the legal wold of Nashville, but
became interested in the project for
the development of Tenrtessees
enm molts water [rower. He was as
sociated in this with Fielding Yost,
his old football instructor, who. by
the way. is now his brother-in-law
a« well, and between them they
succeeded hi organizing the Ten
nessee Power Gojupany, a $20.0*10.-
oiiii corporation, which is running
transmission lines from three great
plant’ on the Ocoee river. In East
Tennessee, and the Great Falls of
the r’aney Fork to towns all over
Tennessee, These line* will he
open and in operation in a few
mont iis.
Georgia's Assistant Coach, Former Star Player, Compares Two Teams
KETRON HINTS GEORGIA HAS CHANCE FOR TITLE
By Harold W. Ketron.
(Assistant Coach of the Georgia Team.)
Athens, ga.. oct. is.—The
one absorbing question In
Athens and all Georgia, and
especially to Georgia alumni. “Has
Georgia a chance to win from Van
derbilt tn Atlanta Saturday?”
I have been asked this question
both in person and by letter so
many times that it has really be
come monotonous.
1 have used various and sundry
answers and have led myself to
believe that after fourteen years of
wanderijng in the wilderness a
Georgia eleven at last stands in
sight of the promised land.
I do not mean by this that Geor
gia will win from Vanderbilt,
neither' do 1 mean that the Commo
dores will have so much edge as
has been predicted by certain foot
ball authorities in the South.
If 1 were called upon for a criti
cism of former Georgia football
teams. 1 would unhesitatingly r-ay,
Our former poor showings, say be
tween 1898 and 1911. must be at
tributed to Georgia’s annual change
of coaches and training system
I he result of these changes have
prevented the varsity teams from
having first-class substitutes and
scrub teams from which to draw.
Nice Boost For Cunningham.
With the coming of Alex Cun
ningham in 1910, Georgia at last
solved the question of the coach
ing system and found the right
man for* the place. Too much praise,
can not be given this grand little'
football wizard for rhe work he has
accomplished with the Georgia ma
terial in the past three years. The
secret of Cunningham’s success has
been his alvjlity to keep the men in
splendid physical condition, aj, the
same time by his remarkable per
sonality. securing from the play-
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This. Cunningham s third year at
Georgia, finds him for the first
time with an abundance of mate
rial from which to mould a win
ning combinations Whether or not
this has been done will be demon
strated in Atlanta Saturday when
Vanderbilt and Georgia trot to the
field in the greatest and inost spec
tacular football game ever staged
in the Gate City.
How Teams Compare.
We are told that Vanderbilt will
average 170 pounds to the man.
Rather singular that Georgia
should average I*l9 pounds per man.
Therefore, there can be no edge in
weight. Georgia's will per
haps have the shade in weight on
Vanderbilt's wing men. In expe
rience they should be about on a
par. Since my attention has been
directed to Georgia's line, I will re
frain from an opinion of it except
that the players have the weight,
gray matter, nerve and experience.
Both teams have new ' quarter
backs and in this department there
should not be very much edge. This
brings us to a discussion as to the
merits of the backfields. From all
reports. Vanderbilt must be ex
ceedingly strong in this depart
ment. Should it be a “dog-fall’’ up
to this point. 1 feel no hesitancy
in predicting that Georgia will be
properly taken care of here, Should
the work of Wheatley and Paddock
be anywhere In the class of that of
Sikes and Collins and the battle
proper be put up to McWhorter
and Hardage. no ’Georgia sup
porter need worry as to the out
come.
McWhorter Best of All.
Having seen most of the back
field jnen irTthe South for some
eight or ten year's, also having seen
players like Hollenbach, of Penn-
sylvania: Wendell, of Harvard.
Camp, of Yale, and Pendleton, of
Princeton, I am frank to say I be
lieve Bob McWhorter is the equal,
if not the superior, of any of them.
I presume both teams will use
the open style of play in the con
test Saturday and in this event the
spectators will have the opportun
ity of watching individual work
and may judge for themselves At
any rate, there is sure to be some
lively doings when the teams min
gle.
SOX AND CUBS MEET IN
NINTH CONTEST TODAY
CHICAGO, Oct. 18. — Before the sur
was up today, a long line of eager sane
formed before the gates at the White
Sox baseball park, awaiting a chance to
buy tickets to the final and deciding
game of the city series.
Walsh and Lavender were the pitch
ers picked by the opposing teams, and
upon their work the followers based
their hopes of victory. Out of eight
games played, each team has won three
and tied twice. After the game between
the teams Thursday, thousands of fans
rushed from the West Side to the Sox
grounds, clamoring for tickets for to
day’s game. The fight for tickets last
ed long after dark. It was estimated
30,000 fans would see the game toda;
INDIANS WANT DAUSS;
WAS SENT TO DETROIT
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 18.—A rumor
has been revived here to the effect that
Manager Mike Kelley would attempt
to land Pitcher George Dauss, the In
dianapolis boy, for the Indians next
year. Kelley sent Dauss, who was h -
one best bet with the Saints this year,
to Detroit just before the season
closed, where he had tryout with th'
Tigers.
In case Jennings decides not to keep
Dauss, it is regarded aS a certainty that
he will come here.