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Yellow Jackets’ Football Instructor Has Received Many Offers
HEISMAN MAY COACH PENNSY ELEVEN NEXT YEAR
By Percy H. Whiting.
JOHN W. HEIRMAN. coach of
the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology football team, may be
the next eoach of the University of
Pennsylvania. It isn't definitely
settled yet, but there Is a strong
hunch that the thing will happen.
This is Mr. Heisman’s last sea
son at Tech, under his old con
tract.
• • •
THE strongest reason for believ
ing that Mr. Heisman may go
to Pennsylvania next year is that a
rumor to that effect has seeped out
of Philadelphia and down to At
lanta.
It appears there may be strong
foundation for the rumor.
Os course, Mr. Heisman was a
Pennsylvania man. Ho played base
ball and football there, though his
lack of weight made it impossible
for him to leave any Coy-like dents
in Eastern football history.
However, when Mr. Heisman left
Pennsylvania he took up coaching.
He was the first professional eoach
in the state of (thio, and he Is today
the oldest coach In point of serv
ice in Dixie.
Mr. Heisman has been the most
uniformly successful of Pennsylva
nia graduates at coaching, and he
has been successful for the great
est length of time.
When Mr. Heisman has had ma
terial. he has had a. winner When,
as this year, he has had no mate-
FODDER FOR FANS
In the event that Fall River, New Red
ford and Haverhill drop out of the New
"England league next year, as seems like
ly. Mancheater. N. H . Salem, Mass , and
Portland, Maine, will replace them
• • •
The opinion seems to be thai Roger
Bresnahan will effect a compromise with
the St. Ixiuls club regarding his unex
pired contract. This will be the easiest
way out of the difficulty for both placer
and management.
Rochester critics predict that Fred
Smith will be in the Yankee outfield
next season. They saw him play for only
• few weeks, but claim he is a sure
comer and that it will he impossible to
keep him from making a regular berth
on the team
• • •
Heinie Zimmerman has been voted the
moat popular player in Chicago The
Bronx citizen won first prize in a race
with the renowned Ed Walsh
• • •
Kid Gleason lias had an ea’v job with
the White Sox the past season All lie
did was to act as roach, scout, peace
maker. ' counselor, disciplinarian, confi
dant to Manager Callahan and substitute
bat boy. Once on the Hilltop he also
acted as backstop, stopping a foul with
his face
• • •
The Cub team seems to be suffering
from speed mania .lerrv Downs and Joe
Tinker are both shy a few ducats on ac
count of breaking the speed ordinance.
Probably in a hurry to put as much
ground as possible between themselves
and their boss
•X • V
Ten Million, the outfielder who caused
• the paragraphers much joy when he joined
the Cardinals last spring, is traveling
some in the minors. He has not boon
with a team long enough at anj time this
season to know what town it represented,
and they are still trading him Sioux
City has just unloaded him on Spokane
» for, Chick Hartley
• * •
Fred Snodgrass will g< t in a little win
ter practice with the Oxnard team in
California this winter. lie will be ten
dered a banquet shortly by the fans of
that town, who regard him as their idol,
even if he did mess up a fix ball on one
occasion.
• • •
That baseball is flourishing on the
coast is shown bx the report of the Los
Angeles club, which declared a dividend
of 122.500 This is equivalent to aHO per
cent dividend. The club is euptilised at
2.500 shares of >!0 par value each At
one. time the stock sold ai 12.50 per share.
• • •
Washington Park, the home of the Los
Angles club ever since 'he Coast League
was formeo is to be wiped oiT the map.
After the city cuts a street through it
the remainder will because for building
purposes
• • •
Big leaguers who make their homes
on the coast have formed an all-star team
■tint is or a barnstorming tour of t'all-
- several nicin-
of the Giants and lied Sox
F Chief Movers is latching for the Coast
All Stars. Fred Snodgrass is playing sec
ond base and Art Shaft r at simn Rav
Collins and Charley Hall, of the Red Sox
are members of the pitching corps, while
••••••••••••••••••••••••••
• •
•TmUp in the Air •
• Too/Says Heisman •
• •
• “I don’t know' at all what I shall •
• do w’hen my time at Tech expires." •
• says Mr. Heisman. "I admit that •
• Tech has an option on my serv- •
• lees. I have had no intimation •
• from them what they expect to do •
• It Is true also that I have received •
• several tentative offers. As a mat- •
• ter of fact. I haven’t thought much •
• about it. I should like to go some- •
• w here where there was more ma- •
• terlal and better chances of devel- •
• ojiing a star team than there ever •
• will be at Tech." •
• •
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
rial, he has done wonders with the
men who have come to hand.
♦ * •
II7HEN Mr. Heisman signed his
’’ last five-year contract with
Tech, he was being strongly urged
as the coach of the "Old Penn”
eleven. However, he had Interests
in Atlanta at that time, and as Tech
offered him a good contract for a
long period of time, he signed with
the local college.
This fall, as Mr. Heisman's con
tract is expiring, Pennsy is again
in tile doldrums. The once fa
mous team is doing nothing. It is a
joke—and that with corking good
material. Obviously, the fault lies
Duffey Lewis and Harry Hooper form the
outfield with Howard Cravath, of ths
Phillies.
Manager George Stovall, of the St. Louis
Americans, says that he is against base
ball players writing 'for the papers He
is not the onlv one. either.
« • «
The Boston Nationals have drawn heav
ily on the Northwestern league for Its new
men. Five pitchers, two catchers and a
first baseman have been taken
• « »
R. L. Stevenson, the former Vniverslty
of Minnesota football and baseball star,
is to report to Manager Mack, of the
Athletics, next spring for his first try-out
in major league baseball.
• « •
Myers, the star first baseman of the
Spokane club, who has signed with the
Boston Nationals for next year, is to play
first base this winter for the San Diego
club, tn the California winter league
• . •
In thirteen years la»acli. Clarke and
Wagner made a record at Pittsburg that
will be heard to beat The three went
to bat 19.403 times and made 5.905 safe
hits They stole 1,159 bases ami accented
16.530 chances out of a total of 17,538
• • •
Kitty Bransfield has signed to manage
Montreal In 1913. He's gotten so he just
doesn't care WHAT he does.
• • •
Clarke Griffith says that if the Red
Sox do not play any better In the Amer
ican league championship next year than
they did in the world's championship this
year u.ev w ill finish, now here—which Is
probably true
• • •
.Um Mutrle. who managed the Giants
in the late eighties, is running a news
stand in .Staten Island. Wonder if .1.
McGraw will be selling peanuts in 1936.
• ■ •
Well, the' are shaking up the Na
tional league managers a good lot this
vear but Clarke ami McGraw seem likely
to hold their jobs.
it Is figured that, since the Giants lost
one series with Charlev Faust mascotlng
and one that he didn't mascot, his aver
age is .500.
• • •
Bill Schwartz has not signed with the
Nashville team for next vear The terms
do not Interest him, and besides he feels
thi’.t the team is so shakv financially
that it is mighty risky fooling with It
at all.
BOXING IN IOWA IS DYING.
DVBI'qVE, IOWA. Nov. 6—The
management of Riversfde Athletic park
announces that in all probability there
will be no more pugilistic contests.
Lack of patronage, they assert, has
made the attractions losing ventures
Tim arena, which cost several thou
sand dollars to erect, is located on
Stumps s Island across from Tagir
Point, on the Wisconsin side of the
Mississippi. There is no legal barrier
to the holding of bouts, Unless some
one else wishes to take hold of tip*
l>t (position. the present mun.igv tm nt
states the boxing game in this vicinity
Is dead.
I’HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1912.
in the coaching. Obviously also,
much of Pennsylvania’s weakness
of late years has been the result,
in the main, of indifferent coaching.
If Mr. Heisman goes to Pennsyl
vania. look out for a revolution—
followed by some Penn successes'.
Birring Dan McGugin. who is.
ill things considered, about as suc
cessful a coach as America ever
knew, Heisman has no equal In the
South and few in the country. He
knows more football than any man
south or west of Walter Camp, Sr.,
bar nobody; and he can teach what
he knows.
• • •
pOR nil the fact that Georgia men
* profess to hate Heisman, it is
a. fact that they have wanted to
get him in years past. At pres
ent they have Coach Cunningham
under a three-year contract, and it
is extremely unlikely that they will
make a change. Despite that, there
is a strong tip out that he may
get an offer from Georgia.
It is known that Mr. Heisman has
had an offer from one Southern col
lege. and it is not unlikely that this
college is Clemson, The Carolina
team has been doing bad work of
late, and a change of coaches is
being talked.
It is also known that a Texas
college is planning to make Mr.
Heisman an offer.
* * •
/A F course, there is always a
chance that Mr. Heisman may
remain right here in Atlanta. The
Tech athletic authorities have an
option on Mr. Heisman's services.
Probably he could duck out from
under it if he cared to, but the fact
remains that they have such an
option and that Mr. Heisman would
undoubtedly abide by it. The folks
at Tech know full well that they
would be about ten million years
getting another man who could do
as much with as little material as
Mr. Heisman. So they may decide
to retain him.
On the other hand, they may
feel that a change of coaches would
be for the better, and that they
could get a younger and cheaper
man who would acceptably handle
the teams.
The best hunch right now is that
Tech will give up its claim to Mr.
Heisman's services, provided he
can get the position at Pennsylva
nia.
GIANTS~MANAGER
SUGGESTS CHANGE
IN WORLD’S SERIES
NEW YORK. Nov. 6.—The world's
series rules will most likely be
amended before next year as a result
of suggestions made by Manager Mc-
Graw, of the Giants, to Garry Herr- ,
rnann, chairman of the national coni- .
mission, and Ban Johnson, president of i
the American league. McGraw and 1
Johnson have buried the hatchet after 1
several years’ enmity. j
McGraw made two suggestions which ;
the two members of the national com- i
mission thought well of and which they
said would likely be adopted before 1
rnjtny months have flown. (
In the world series when the Giants I
lit upon Joe Wood's delivery in the first
inning of the seventh game, and scored ,
six runs, the entire New York team was
on the anxious seat for fear that their
great lead would count for naught as
the clouds were gathering thick and i
fast at the time and it looked doubtful :
if the teams would play more than
three or four innings. In this case, un- .
less they played the full five innings. 1
the Giants would have done all of their
cannonading for nothing.
McGraw suggested that a rule he
made for future world’s se: ies games
that if rain stopped a game, no matter
at what stage, play be resumed the fol
lowing day Where the two teams left
off. rain - necks being provided the fans
so that they could see both sections of
the game.
The other rule that McGraw sug
gested was to let all the fans who at
tend a th g.une see the play-off free of
charge, ihci seat cheeks being sufii- .
elent credential to get them into the
park.
HAHVAROWDRKS
HARD FOR DAME
WITH ■!
By Howell Foreman
(Former Atlanta Newspaper Man
Now Student at Harvard.)
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. Nov. 6.
Scarcely had the echo of the
moa.nful Tiger howl died
within the stadium walls when the
Harvard eleven, full and strong,
assembled for drill on Soldiers
field, working' out for the Vander
bilt game. Trumbull and Coolidge,
the only absentees, were replaced
by Driscoll and O'Brien. Charley
Brickley, the splendid back, who
almost single-handed won Satur
day's battle, was out and he spent
much time measuring distances and
perfecting his drop and place kicks.
Wendell, too, was at practice. He
started in the Princeton game, but
had to quit. In practice he was
working with a vim. toiling with
his to whip and to shape some
some new offensive formations.
Sammy Felton booted the pigskin
all over the lot. 3 e wishes to im
prove in accuracy his wonderful
50-yard punt, which sometimes
goes even too far for his ends.
The work was a tedious task.
Many new formations of attack
rvere tried. The plays were care
fully explained by the corps of
coaches and this slow, close teach
ing lasted for two hours behind
closed gates. The backs were
coached by Hain Corbett, ’ll. Be
sides Haughton, Coaches Daly,
Leary, Wiggles worth, Paul and Lo
throp, Withington, Brown and
Fisher continually pounded the new'
ideas into the nead of each man
on the squad.
At present the conditions of the
Vanderbilt game are very uncertain.
If Haughton uses his second string
men, the Commodores may be
lucky enough to score, but if all
powerful Percy runs in his varsity
bunch, sackcloth and ashes will be
in vogue down in the old moun
tains of Tennessee. Haughton’s
plan this season has been to turn
his regulars loose for the first
half of the game, thus rolling up
a good score, and then the second
boys take up the fight.
Vanderbilt should be licked in
the first half. Her chance to score
and show what she’s got up her
sleeve will no doubt come toward
the latter part of the game.
GEORGETOWN’S CAPTAIN
MAY NEVER PLAY AGAIN
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6. —“Jack"
Hegarty, captain of the Georgetown uni
versity football team, it was an
nounced today, is suffering- from inju
ries so serious tiiat he never will play
the game again. In the struggle Sat
urday with the University of North
Carolina. Hegarty sustained a broken
ankle in addition to a turn ligament in
his leg.
Hegarty also is on the. verge of a
nervous breakdown. He is confined to
a hospital. His absence still further
cripples the team, which is reported to
be far from the best.
AMERICAN-BRED NAGS
WIN ON ENGLISH TURF
LONDON. Nov. 6.—American bred
race horses have won more events this
year than ever before on the English
turf. Among them the offspring of
James R. Keane’s once famous sprint
er, Voter, figure tile most frequently,
two of his sons, Election and Select
man. having upset theorists on breed
ing by winning long distance races.
August Belmont's Tracery has won
$48,000 and H. B. Duryea’s Sweeper 11
$30,000 during the year. Duryea has
also won as much mo e in France with
Shannon, an American bred colt sired
by the brilliant race horse Irish Lad.
out of Census by Ethelbert.
The greatest winner of the season is
not American bred, but this horse.
Prince Palatine, has been ridden in all
of his .--take races b> the American
jockey, Frank O’Neill, who comes from
Paris each time the horse races.
Tech Football Elevens a Joke Until Coach Heisman Was Secured
YELLOW JACKETS ALL-TIME TEAM GREAT MACHINE
By J. S. Moore, Jr.
GEORGIA TECH’S athletic ca
reer has been a varied one
and amounted to very little
until Coach Heisman was secured
nine years ago, and since then Tech
has held her own with .the best in
the South. There was no athletic
association at Tech in the days be
fore Coach Heistnan, and Tech was
considered a joke by all teams.
The year he took charge of the
teams things changed and the Yel
low Jackets were held in awe by all
Southern colleges. Therefore,’ it is
well-nigh impossible to pick an all-
Tech, all-time football team, but
an all-Tech Heisman-time team
will meet all requirements of the
most critical, and the choice that
follows was made after long and
deliberate consideration.
We will pick the line first and
then the back field. For the cen
ter’s job there are three men who
loom head and shoulders above all
others and any of whom would
make a most excellent man. These
are Sims, ’OS: Snider, ’O7. and
I.oeb, ’ll.
Sims was a big man, powerful on
offense and a sure tackle on de
fense. He knew the game well and
played like a man “trying out” all
the time, and to him goes first
place.
Snider was an extra big man,
but not up to Sims on offense. He
broke interference wonderfully well
and always played a jam-up game
under all conditions.
Loeb Light But Fast.
Loeb we still have with us. He
is light, but fast, gritty and plays
the hardest game of any man on
the Tech team, but his lack of
weight keeps him from getting first
place.
The guards were not so easy to
pick, as Tech has had a great many
extra good men to fill these places,
but these men seem to have been
there with the goods and get the
places:
Sinclair, ’ll, played his best game
his last year at guard. He was
one of the most powerful men that
has ever come to Tech. He was
6 feet 6 inches and weighed 195
pounds in condition. Being long
and powerful, he could open up a
hole through any line he ever
charged against, and on defense he
was well-nigh impregnable. He
easily gets one of the first places.
It was due to his good work that
Goree made such pretty gains in
the Sewanee game last year, when
Tech for the first time so over
whelmingly defeated the Tigers.
The man to be a running mate
to this man had to be a good one,
and in Snider’s work in 1906 we find
the needed stuff.
Good Breaking Up Plays.
He was also an extra big man,
6 feet 2 inches, and weighing over
180 in condition. He could break up
interference better than any man
who has ever worn a Tech uni
form, and on his defensive play he
was strongest. However, he
charged low, hard and consistently,
and is the best man for the other
guard. X
Gregg. ’O4, and Gordon Smith,
'O7, deserve honorable mention.
They were good, hard players, but
lacked the weight and experience
necessary for an ideal linesman.
Up to tlie present season. Tech
has always had a bountiful supply
of material for the tackles, and
some of the best players have been
tackles, who, by their tackles and
tackle bucks, gave Tech many a
game which would 'nave gone the
other way.
The best tackle that has ever
played for Tech was "Pat” Pat
terson. He played his best game at
tackle in 1910 and made all-South
ern two years. He was nearly
an Ideal linesman, being over six
feet tall and weighing around 180.
lie was undoubtedly the best con
sistent ground gainer that played in
tne line in the South and was a
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• Here Are Best Men •
Os Tech's History •
• •
• Sims Center •
• Sinclair and Snider Guards •
• Patterson and Brown .. ..Tackles •
• Robert and Day Ends •
• Wilson Quarter •
• Davis and Goree Halves •
• Clark Fullback •
• •
wonder on defense, backing up the
line in almost perfect style. He
gets one tackle and “Lobster"
Brown the other.
Brown Bear at Old Game.
Brown was an unusually big man.
over six feet, and weighing close
to 200, every bit as hard as nails,
and when that mass of humanity
hit the interference it was all off.
"Lobster” played his best ball in
1904, when the old style knock
down-and-drag-out game was in
vogue. He was also a good back
field man. and in the last game
Tech played with Davidson he kick
ed a field goal from the 45-yard
line.
John Davis, better known as ”20
Per Sent Davis;” “Shorty" Sinclair
and “Bits” Munroe, ’O6, all played
good ball at tackle, but not in the
class with the first named.
At the ends we have two men
who were not of the smashing type,
but were heady, quick men. who
knew the game like a book, and
played hard all the time.
At right end we have "Chip”
Robert, who played his best game
at end in ’O7. He was a better
man at offense than defense, and
was away above the average in the
use of the stiff arm. He was a
rather short man, but heavy set.
weighing about 170. In his year at
end he had a trick of boxing near
ly every end he played against, thus
allowing “Red” Hill to go for long
gains.
The other end is not so easy to
pick. It is among Craig Day,
'OS; Goree, ’lO, and Sanchez, 'll.
All of these men were scrappy
players. Goree was best on the of-
NAVY MUST IMPROVE TO
DOWN WEST POINT MEN
ANNAPOLIS, MD„ Nov. 6.—There is
optimism at the Naval academy over
the showing of the football team in its
game against Western Reserve last
Friday and at yesterday's practice ses
sions, but it is admitted that the men
must show vastly improved form to be
worthy opponents of the Army on No
vember 30.
The back field is unsettled and there
are at least three places on the line
which may be regarded as undecided.
The weight of the players, taken
within the last two or three days,
shows that the team is not quite as
heavy as thought. The average of the
team as It probably will be selected to
oppose the Army is 179 pounds. The
line averages 182 pounds and the back
field 173. Two members of the squad
weigh over 200 pounds.
G. M. A. AN EASY VICTOR IN
GAME WITH TECH HIGH
G. M. A. defeated Tech High school
yesterday afternoon on the G. M. A.
campus by the score of 27 to 0. The
game was interesting throughout, de
spite the large score. G. M. A. worked
the forward pass several times for long
gains, one for a touchdown. Tech High
showed up best in the third quarter,
when she carried the ball to G. M. A.'s
ten-yard line, but was unable to carry
it over for a touchdown.
For G. M. A., Brown. Babb and La
mar played star ball, Brown making
several good gains and scoring two
touchdowns.
For Tech High. Laird. Bedell and
Weston played the best game. Laird
and Bedell starring on the offensive
and Weston on the defensive.
sense, while Sanchez did his good
work as a defensive man. But
Day combined the good qualities of
both of them, and therefore gets the
place. He was one of the fastest
men Tech has ever had, and gained
many a yard on his end-around
end runs.
Here we have a line averaging
184 pounds, from end to end. with
three all-Southern men and two
captains.
Have Had Good Backs.
It is back field men that Coach
Heisman seems to be able to de
velop, and Tech has had a large
number of way above the average
men.
The competition for quarter
back and half back place is hard
For quarter there are such men as
Buchanan. Butler and Johnson,
each of whom played a jam-up
game in one or more departments,
but it is "Doc" Wilson, ’O9, who gets
the palm for being the best quartei
back Tech has ever had. He was
not extra good on defense, but a
marvel on running back punts,
broken field running and line buck
ing. He was a natural born player.
It was his signal calling and head
work that made the 1909 team one
of the best Tech has ever had.
At the halves we have a large
number of good men.
Parrish, ’OB, was the best de
fensive half in the business. He
was like a stone wall when it came
to stopping a line buck. "Billy
Wilson, ’OS, was a good offensive
man. “Piggy" Hightower, 'O6, was
also a good ground gainer, and we
all know what a fierce line buek
er was Lewis, of the 1910 team;
but these men were light, and we
have to give the places to John
Davis. ’OS, and Goree, ’ll. Davi
was big and ploughed through the
line with telling effect, while Goree
did both, only, being lighter, he
was best at end runs. It was in the
Sewanee game of last year that
Goree showed Atlanta fans what
real line bucking was.
And now, last, but not least, the
full back, and only one man loomt
high above the rest, and that is
“Automobile” Clark, captain of t'
1905 team. When the ball had to
be put across he was the man to
do it.
Oußard Was a Good Man.
Walter Dußard, of the 1910 team,
deserves honorable mention for !
superior showing in the early p.i 1 ’
of the season, and had he kept tl
pace, he would have been all-Tech
all-time, for some time to come.
Here we have a back field aver
aging 175 pounds, worthy of 1
consideration of all-Southern pick
ers.
This combination of brain ■
brawn is the best Tech team thi.
could be put in the field, and man'
a season will pass before the t
low Jackets will again have - :1
men as these.
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