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Stirring Football Promised in Vandy-Georgia Battle at Ponce Tomorrow
GAME MAY DECIDE THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF SOUTH
By Percy 11. Whiting.
r j ' H r
I under the stalwart chap
eronage of Hoad Coach Dan
MeGugin and Assistant Coaches
Dr. Manier and Stein' Stone. The
Georgia team will be here in good
time tomorrow morning. Goal
posts have been erected at Ponce
DeLeon park and the field has been
marked oft 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
seen.
Thia game ma'ks the strongest
bid that a Gioigia team has been
able t<> make in the last tin v< ire
or more for the ehampionship of
the South.
Georgia has In < ri gaining lootbull
strength steadil I'"’. three years.
This year it stronger limn it
has byen In years -stronger per
haps than it Ims ever been tn fore
in ail Its history. It has 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
Coach Alee Cunningham and by
his assistant. Howard Ketron. If
ever a Georgia >eatn hail a chance
for the championship, this is the
team.
And if ever the time was ripe for
a Georgia team to win a cham
pionship. Saturday is the time.
Is Vendy 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 total of points
in their first three games than any
other team in the United States
Yet experts are still to be shown!
Vanderbilt had a good team last
year, one of the best in its history.
Rut it lost from last year’s eleven
three of its very best men, three of
the best men who ever played in
the South—Ray Morrison. "Big
Un" Freeland and "Frog” Metz
ger Not event the most rampant
Vanderbilt enthusiast claims that
their places have been ex en half
way filled True. th< 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 be l ight now stronger titan
any Athens team of recent football
history. The 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 b St yea 's strong Vanderbilt
eleven defeated.
Os course, no sane dopester
would actually tout Georgia as the
v. inner. Our own opinion is that
Vanderbilt will win. At the same
time every student of the game
feels tlt.it <>n Saturday afternoon
the Go'd ami Black team will get
on' of the toughest tests of all its
long history.
South's Best Game Sure.
It looks like the greatest game
of th> yea in Dixie. Only three
other contests compare with It
the Vanderbilt-Virginia, the Van
derbilt Auburn and the Vanderbilt-
Sewanee contests. Xml it is a
known fact that the Commodores
look on today's game with the
greatest apprehension. They feel
confident that if they can get
away with Georgia the rest, with
the exception of Hat \ai d, w ill be
easy.
T.he Commodores fear Bob Mc-
Whorter —as well they may. They
feared him last year, but they
found he was very largely the
whole Red and Black team then
Their defense • onsisted in one se
play "Block Hob McWhorter” —
and it »av<<i them. This y ear Mc-
Whorter, still the star, is far from
the whole team They may block
him cold and still meet "defeat. But
what • a 10l more likely to happ-n
si ,f wha i thi y fca> most is tha*
the? v , t,, k hilll vvjll b#
frustrated by the other members
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 lino. If he gets thus straight
ened out a few times -good-night,
Va nderbllt 1
Crowd Will Be There.
Judged by the interest displayed
in the game, Iho crow d 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.—The fa
mous "stiff arm," one of tile
greatest offensive plays in all
football, and one of the least un
derstood, 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
Camp. Jr., has done as much as
anything else to bring the play
into prominence.
Camp Goes Either Way.
l.ike other experts with the stiff
arm, Camp uses the arm to the
right and the turn to the left, but
he uses it just long enough to get
the defensive back in the 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 Camp
is clever with it—that maneuver is
baflling in the extreme, and some
of the best tacklers are fooled by
It. The method takes account of
the natural brace and shift of
weight to meet the customary stiff
arm. and as a result the tackler
Is taken off his balance ami some
times rather easily throw n across.
It Is next to impossible to get
under the arm. and most coaches
teach the tackler to break through
ft, with the chest at the same time
thrown across the runner's legs, but
with a shifty, long striding back of
the Camp variety the perfect tackle
is not always possible, and the de
fensive player must nail his man
as best he can.
“Stiff Arm” Not Slugging.
It would be a good plan, perhaps,
to explain right here that in the
• minds of those who are not skilled
in the intricacies of football the
stiff arm is often confused with
slugging tactics. Groans and hisses
are often heard in the stand when
a tackler is staved off by the stiff
arm. The nick, as all football men
know, is done with the open hand
against the head or shoulder of the
tackler, and the very term "stiff
ui in” precludes the possibility of a
blow. Hough players, it is true,
have used the doubled-up fist on
more than one occasion, .but this is
hardly enough to condemn the le
gitimate use of one of tin prettiest
maneuvers in the gam*
In Hie old days there was a
form of stiff ann used on the de
fense that hud as much as any -
thing to do with the abolition of
hurdling. Shirley Ellis of Hat yard.
'• . ekes of Columbia, and a host of
o.hets will remember it well. In
those days th< hurdler rose up on
th. backs of his interference, and
as the pile was pulled down, shot
on over-the press for his distance.
It was an effective, if dangerous,
play ann for a time was used all
over the country.
How Hurdling Was Blocked.
Then the defense found a solu
tion. as is th' custom of the de
fense. .inti it was this solution that
helped mark the end of hurdling.
As tht hurdler rose on the backs
rrrr Atlanta Georgian and news.fr iday. October is. 1912.
fans are wise to the fact that this
•will be one of THE contests of the
year, and they are apparently all
making their plans to he out for
the excitement.
There is much disappointment
among local motorists over the
rule forbidding any motor cars on
the side lines. The reason for mak
ing this rule is evident enough,
but those who have watched the
games from their own machines
are keenly regretful that It has
been passed.
of his inlerfere’nce, his head came
up into the open, and a defensive
back was told off to do nothing
but meet the runner's chin with the
stiff aim. This process threw the
runner's head back sharply, even
though it was not a blow, and re
sulted now and then in a serious
injury. Just why nobody was per
manently' hurl in the process no one
knows to this day.
Open field hurdling meant, of
course, tiiat the 'tackler ran the
risk of being kicked in the face,
but, after all. the 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 originaly intended to
be a perfectly’ legitimate aid to
the runnel.
So important was the 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 tile stiff arm to every'
post. It was something like the
schooling of polo ponies between
-takes. The result was apparent
early in the season, for the Prince
ton backs did better work with the
stiff arm than did the runners on
any other team.
BOYS HI AND G. M. A.
.TIE UP IN GRID GAME
The Boys High school football team
will make ils 1912 prep league debut
against the Georgia Military academy
this afternoon at G. M. A. Both teams
regird tills as a heavy game, and have
been working earnestly of late.
Although the G. M. A. team won the
footirJl championship last year, their
present team consists mostly of raw
material, while the B. H S. team will
enter the fray with a team of vet
erans.
Tlte G M A. team will possess the
greater tontidenee because of its re
cent tictoiy over Tech High and be
cause of its unbroken string of victo
ries over B. H. S. in the past.
G. M. A. lias the best coached team,
and will be m better training, yet B 11
S. w ill depend on freak plays and for
ward passes to overcome these disad
vantages.
17-YEAR-OLD LAD DIES
FROM BLOW ON THE JAW
SHAMOKIN. PA.. Oct. 18. Clyde
Lincoln, a 17-year-oltl pugilist of \Vil
liamspmi, died at Sunbury. Pa., yes
terday from injuries inllieted by Reno
Bell Tyson, a negro boxer of Harris
burg, in a six-round bout last night.
Lincoln was knocked unconscious by a
blow on the jaw in the fourth round
and never recovered. Tyson was ar
rested.
MORDECAI BROWN WILL
LEAD LOUISVILLE CLUB
CHICAGO Oct. 18. - Mordeeai Blown,
former pitcher for the Chicago Na
tional league baseball i’<ib. released to
the Louisville . lub of th, American as
soeiation. is to tie manager of the
•LmiLville team, i position now vacant.
a< "idfiig to a report heie yesterdai.
McGugiifs Career in
South Has Been One
of Continuous Success
■W -rASHAMI LE I ENX.. Oct. IS.—
Dun McGugin, football coach,
is known all over the South
and West, and even in some sec
tions of the more or less benighted
East. Daniel E. McGugin. 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 has 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 college. He knew
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 "McGui
gan.” x
In 19oT* 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 other 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 with terrible swiftness about
their work of piling up scopes. That
was where McGugin had come in.
McGugin Bom in |o w a.
Ervin that day to this McGugin
has been known of all Southern
football, but even yet the football
follower knows very little about the
other side of McGugin. His his
tory is brief, but crowded with the
things he has done. He was born
in Tingley, la„ 33 years ago. Be
received his literary education at
Drake university, Des Moines. Ia„
and incidentally took up his foot
ball education. He played on the
Drake team two years, and made a
reputation as a linemait that ex
tended over the middle West.
His law course was taken at the
great Michigan law school, and
there, under "Hurry Up” Yost, he
received the finishing touches or.
his football training, 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
terest in the Nashville girl who be
came Mrs. McGugin. Finally, two
years after coming to Vanderbilt,
he signed as athletic director for
the entire year, and in addition to
coaching took on the work of leach
ing a class in constitutional law.
Coach McGugin is also Professor
McGugin.
Dan Becomes a Southerner.
He opened a law office in Nash
ville, and. unlike some lawyers w ho
open offices, also began to practice.
Nashville people found that he
knew law and could practice it Just
as he knew football and could teach
it. He not only became prominent
in thi' legal world of Nashville, but
became interested in the project for
the development of Tennessee’s
eltormous water power. He was as
sociated in this with Fielding Yost
his old football instructor, who. by
the way. is now his brother-in-law
as well, and between them they
succeeded in organizing the Ten
nessee Ftawer Company, a 520.000.-
1)00 corporation, which is running
transmission lines from three groat
plants on the Ocoee river. In East
Tennessee, and tlw Groat Calls of
the <’aney Fork to towns all over
Tennessee. These lines will be
open and in o|«eration in a few
months.
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 in Atlanta ..Saturday?’’
I have been ask?d this question
both in person itntl by letter so
many times that it has really be
come monotonous.
used vaiious and sundry
answers and have led myself to
believe that after fourteen years of
wandering in the wilderness a
Georgia eleven at last stands in
sight of the promised wland.
I do not mean by this that Geor
'ifia will win from Vanderbilt,
neither do I mean that the Commo
dores will have so much edge as
has been predicted by certain foot
ball author itis's in the South.
If I were called upon for a criti
cism of former Georgia football
teams. I would unhesitatingly say,
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 lie result of these changes have
prevented the vatsity teams from
having first-class substitutes and
scrub team's from which to draw.
Nice Boost For Cunningham.
With the coining 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
etui not be given this grand little
fobtball wizard for tne work he has
accomplished with the Georgia ma
terial in the past three yea's. The
secret of Cunningham’s success has
been his ability to keep the men in
splendid physical condition, at the
same time by his remarkable per
sonality, securing from the play-
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they are capable.
This, Cunningham’s third year at
Georgia, finds him for the first
time with an abundance of mate
ria! from which to mould a win
ning combination. 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 most 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 109 pounds per man.
Therefore, there can be no edge in
weight. Georgia's ends 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 Hatdage. no Georgia sup
porter need worry as to the out
come.
McWhorter Best of All.
Having seen most pf the back
field’. men in the South for some
eight or ten years, 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 themselvea. 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 sun
was up today, a long line of eager fans
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
30.900 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 hi
one best bet with the Saints this year,
to Detroit just before the season
closed, where he had tryout with the
Tigers.
In case Jennings decides not to keep
Dauss, it is regarded as a certainty that
he will come here.