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6 Tech’s Famous Football Coach Fails to Select a Single Yellow Jacket for HiLTeam HEISMAN’S ALL-SOUTHERN ELEVEN Player Position XCeight College MorganCenter2l4. . .Vanderbilt Thigpenßight Guard .... 185 . . . Auburn Barker Left Guard .... 191 . . Mississippi T. Brownßight T ackle . . 181 .. . V anderbilt Meadows Left Tacklel76. . . Aub urn E. Brown . . .... Right Endl6o . . . V anderbilt Gillem Left End 160. . .Sewanee SikesQuarterback . . 162. . .Vanderbilt HardageLeft Halfl67. . .Vanderbilt ReulleFullbackl92. . MissA-M By J. W. HEISMAN THE Southern Intercollegiate Athletic association embraces the following members: Alabama, Auburn, Howard, Geor gia, Mercer, Tech, Tulane. L. S. U., University Mississippi, Miss. A. &. M.. Mississippi college. Milsaps College, Trinity. Clem son. Wofford, TheCiadel. University of Florida. \ anderbilt, Sewa nee. Tennessee, College of Charleston. Texas A. \|.. and three colleges in Kentucky. Excluding the Kentucky and Texas colleges on lhe ground of geographical remoteness my sec lections will bo confined to teams representing the above colleges. Center Again Goer To Vanderbilt. THE first-class centers of the year have not been as numerous as here tofore, and 1 am going to seriously consider but four of them. These are Adams, of Mississippi: Dutton, of L. H. XT.: Loeb, of Tech, and Morgan, of Vanderbilt. Adams and Dutton are much alike in size, general ability and style of play. They are excellent snappers, know the possibilities of their position, and are grand football players. Either of them would prove entirely acceptable In the position on any team in the South land. They are experienced linesmen, and play with great vigor. It would be a hard task to decide which Is the bet ter of tin two. Loeb, of Tech, is all this —lacking one thing, and that is weight. At first thought it would seem absurd to dis cuss for this position n man who weighs but 155 pounds. Yet Loeb is possessed ,f such tremendous energy, such abso lutely indomitable fighting spirit, and such splendid vitality that he com pels consideration; he overcomes a han dicap of from ten to twenty pounds in an opponent by these factors with ease. Thus, while differing from the other two in general style, he ranks on a pat with them, and a selection from one of the three would be just as difficult (and just as easy) to make as one from the first two. 1 will say for Loeb that when it tomes to pure grit he merits the highest possible ranking. Morgan Good Heavy Man. Morgan, of the Commodores, is the man who helps me out of my diffi culties, for he puts It a shade on the others. This is in large part due to the fact that he is many pounds heav ier than any of the other three, weigh ing. as he does, about 220 pounds. A good big man is surely better than a good little man. and that’s all there is to it. If Morgan couldn't do arty of the things that the other trio do. it would be a different case. But you can certainly find no fault with Morgan's enapping, nor his charging and block ing. nor yet his tackling and generally fine spirit in the game. And when you add his high-grade experience to the list of his other good points, there is ‘\left nothing to discuss. Morgan would, 1 think, make any team in the country at center. * * * Guards a Puzzle To Coach Heisman. THE selection of the most suitable pair of guards for our team is a profound puzzle. Hardly a Southern team is without at least one man who has some claim cm this position. Probably the best of the lot is Thig pen. of Auburn. This chap is well Qualified in every respect to hold down the job. and it Auburn were not so well fortified with tackles 1 daresay we would se< him playing this position on the Drang' ami Blue lineui. Guards have little opportunity to show off or pull brilliant stutity Steadiness and good, eonsistetit, hard work are the filings tout are needed in i man if ho is t<> play the position to the satisfaction of his coach' - These qualities Thig pen possc-se- to an eminent degree, along with lots of wv.ght. strength, ex perience and knowledge of the inside fine points of the |<osition. Few. 1 think, will be disposed to differ with this estimate of th- man. or his tight to a position The man for the other flank of our center is indeed a problem. Consider ing merely the men who have played at the guard position all season. 1 would have little trouble in selecting Casaanova. of Missi< it>i>i A anil M. This big fellow also 'can < dm every natural qualification f. .r u< h a posi tl \ (kill 1 I ■ blit. and Schiilette nf i I |jL former ol these is I , \ , .... ■Ug&ef . th, lutl'. Daves I eliminate on the ground of lightness and some lack of experience; while the la tter must be dropped on the ground of lack of general* speed—and he, too, needs a little more seasoning. Both have put up a splendid game and deserve special commendation. But to be perfectly frank about it, J do not consider any of these three quite ready for places on an all-Southern. and my team would really be too tar beloe standard at that spot were we to use one of these men this year. Switches Tackle To Guard. The difficulty is rounded by selecting one of the numerous exceptionally good tackles and putting him in the posi tion, This may not seem quite fair to strictly guard candidates, nor would' I do it In years when 1 considered the regular guards of the year able to hold their own and maintain a standard of play reasonably up to that of the rest of our team. It is particularly advisable that we this year switch a tackle into the guard’s place, on account of the fact that this all-S. I. A. A. represents, in general, the best rounded-out eleven players of the year, and to exclude any one of at least three tackles that can be named wouldn ot only work a great hardship on that one man. but would make our team look like a chain with •me weak link when w« had plenty of good, strong links lying around idle that we could insert at the weak spot with the greatest ease. Now. I do not say that this substi tution would be possible or advisable at every or any old position. Thus it would be a wild guess to say that a good guard would make an equally good fullback, or that a fine halfback would do equally well at snapper. But guard and taikle are ntlrely alike In their work, the only difference being that tackle Is a harder place to play suc cessfully than guard, requires more ex perience and agility and, generally speaking, takes a better man to play it. But, this admitted, it follows clearly that if a man can play tackle success fully he can certainly Play an entirely satisfactory guard. Barker at Left Guard. For these reasons I have decided to put Barker, of Mississippi, at left guard. This man weighs 190 pounds, has played exceptionally well at Tackle for three years, and is able to tun 100 yards in 10 1-2 seconds. He Is one of the fiercest tacklers to be found any where, and backs up a line In faultless fashion. Now, how can such a player be kept off my team merely because there are two other men who play the tackle position about as well as he does? And when there is no satis factory regular guard to nominate for our second guard position? And the reason I want the other two men to whom I refer for regular tackles on both offense and defense Is that they do their best work in the line, while Barker is a star of the first magnitude when It comes to backing up the line in secondary defense. Playing the guard’s position on offense, -he could be drawn back when it came to de fense and play in that .secondary de fensive line. He and Reulle, of Mis sissippi A. & M.. would make the best backers-up of any men of the year. This would leave Morgan and Thigpen to hold thing? steady in tin middle of ibe line, and would be a capital ar rangement. I let It go at that. • • » Tackles Also Give Trouble. \ FTER much careful observation, thorough inquiry and thoughtful consideration, I have come to the con clusion that Tom Brown, of Vander bilt; Meadows, of Auburn, and Barker, of Mississippi, are the three best tac kles of the year. It is with much reluctance that 1 r b i t Dobbins, of Sewanee, and Shipp, of Vanderbilt, both of whom have done remarkably tine work for men in their first year on a college learn; and 1 suf fer equal mental spasms in setting Lamb, of Auburn, and Kelley and Il iyay. of Tennessee. Lamb has not b'-en ii t|),. best of condition this year his gaim lias, inconsequence, not "ten quite as good straight through us it w;i“ last season. Tile Tennessee tac- ■k es art about tie lx -i men of that ,i' ». I ..ey a'i hard workers, have the j lice s- '.q v,« arnt am. al - born fight, rs ! 'e gUI ■ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. NOA’EMBER A BIT OF HEISMAN DEFENSE BY TECH ( MKKXs IS v ' A liikKa 11/ W Imlk A- / JBe . I "■ <■ ' x A’VJiFsr \ J/' The Yellow •l;i"kets’ light lor .%. • Y wards held >■> well that tintdiv -—This photograph was snapped the Clemson attack was forced Io hy a Georg'ian camera expert at practically hurdle over them, ' the I’ech-iieorgia game. sition did I not have Barker on my hands; while at tackle they ire shunt ed oft because of the fact that they have not had the same experience as the other men 1 have named, either with or against high-grade teams. Tom Brown Great Player. I am satisfied no one will argue wit it me about Tom Brown's fitness for a tackle’s commission, for he lias been one of the mainstays of the Vanderbilt line for several years. There seems no limit to his ambition to Improve and to learn all the football there is to know. His build for the position Is ideal, and he has a full and perfect working use of his hands —that faculty so rare among Southern linemen. Su perb on making openings, he is an even better man when it comes to defensive work, and we must look upon him as a well-nigh finished linesman. Meadows, of Auburn, is not quite as heavy a man as I would like to have at tackle, and it might be beter were ho shifted to guard, leaving Barker to come out to the tackle’s place. Either of them Is quite quick enough for the place. Meadows' forte is in accurate diagnosing of the play, coupled with simultaneous action on tie judgment. He has a fine knack of knifing through and nailing the runner in his tracks with a clean, low tackle. Altogether he appears to be the best lineman Au burn has this season, and that is say ing much when we reflect what a high grade lot of forwards these ate. Mead ows will do evry well. * * • Sewanee and Vandy Get the End Berths. T?OR the end positions there are quite * a number of men who stand out well above the average. These Include Robinson, of Auburn; Conklin, of Geor gia; Vandegraaf. of Alabama; Pounds, of Florida; Gillem. of Sewanee, and E. Brown, of Vanderbilt. For defensive purposes 1 would not ask a better man than Robinson. He has weight and strength and is excep tionally clear-headed on sizing up a play. And he plants himself in such a manner as to make it a mighty hard tiling to get him off hi.- feet. This makes It possible so. him to handle a heap of interference and still gel t..e runner himself. Conklin, of Georgia, is much the same style of plater, though he comes in faster to smash interference i probably only a difference of detail in team sys tem). But his judgment is almost equally infallible, and he is one of the surest tacklers to be •found anywhere. Pounds, of Florida, is as shifty, nifty and altogether brilliant a player so: his inches and ounces as could be found. On no two downs does he play his position the same, but uses his judgment as to just where and how to play each attack by itself. He is ex ceedingly clever in handling forward passes, and he can spill mote ends go ing down field under punts than any other man 1 have seen this season. ll■ is too light for consideration in the present connection, but deserves, none the less, a Wo'’d of praise. Gillem, of Sewanee, is one of-our best players. H. bus the necessary weight, speed and expert, nc . lie lias the footballer’s fighting instinct. H< is a . ai i.d.tW >. I »txt . , I "«’i HEISMAN'S 1911 TEAM Player Position , College MorganCenter,Vanderbilt Peacockßight Guard Georgia i Metzger .Left Guard Vanderbilt Lambßight Tackle Auburn Freeland. .Left Tackle Vanderbilt Walton Right End Mississippi ! GoreeLeft End Tech : Hardageßight ElalfVanderbilt McWhorterLeft Half Georgia Davis Fullback Auburn Morrison Quarterback Vanderbilt in quantities. There can be little doubt of Gillem’s light to a place. On de fense I would play him at side-back. “Muck” Brown, of Vanderbilt, has been, toiling a\ iy now for several years at that end p< Ilion, and has always put out a jam-up good game. East year he was almost ripe enough, ami this year he i- so beyond all doubt. Brown is mil a. big man. yet lie is big enough, and he is as tough as wire nails. He can smash any old kind of interference, can get down field like an aeroplane, and then tackle for keeps. He handles with accu acy and dispatch all kinds of forward passes, and he is almost immune to injuries. Then, too. Brown lias been playing with a high grade team against other classy teams for years now. and he knows the game as few Southern players ever get io do. There are few sure men for places on our team than Brown. » « « Quarterback Job Is a Conundrum. |IN attempting the solution of the quarterback problem. n (iitlieulty of an entirely different nature from that of licking out star players confronts us. I refer to the difi’er. nt systems of plttj and the different ways that teams use their q mrters nowadays. I’ormeJy th. question of haw the quarter handled , his ball from snapper to runner ent. . ■>] wry largely hi the determination of his fitness for premier honors. But mor. anil more each year w< see teams dis pensing with the intei mediate handling of the ball by the quarter, and on some teams—Tech and Auburn, for instance —the quarterback scarcely ever relays the unrip. On such teams there is little or no real distinction between the quarter and the fullback, or any other of the backs. To be sure, they have to be called something in the official lineup and so the coach of sin h a team picks out some one man and calls him the quarterback; sometimes, perhaps, lie cans’ he is the man who gives the signals, or because h» plays rear guard on the defense, or because another back does most of the line bucking i for which reason the other man is denomi nated fullback i, which necessarily letivi the title of .pm toy lor tile fir-; i man, I’ I ’. i tod mor. m,.|,. I.uokin;' t vnglb in the Ijockli-ld. tog.-thm with t heat.' interfering. I would probably choose Major, of Auburn, for my quar tet’. I* I wanted a man who could run the nds. punt the ball and return punts. I would not overlook McDonald, o' Tech. If I wanted a skillful handler of the ball from snapper to runner, am! ” n “ who was a gv)od field general, no doubt I would choose Fletcher, of Alis ' Sissippi, or Cameron, of Tennessee. And so it goes. 1 hen there is Tolley, of Sewanee, who eettainly handles the center’s snaps nicely, and who runs himself with the ball in good form and with line drive. Still Im is not a very fast man, else Loeb, of Tech, would never have run , him down and eaught him from behind. Neither is fie a sure man on catching punts, notwithstanding Im caught them , all in fir- lech game; in other games he missed a number of them. But Tol ley makes a v-ry satisfactory quarter back and one who stands out from the general field on his season’s work. I find it hard to turn him down—very ? haul. Curlin Best Drop Kicker. t Vanderbilt's quaiters are all in-etty ’ fair men. but none oi them seem to l hare given entire satisfaction to their » coaches. Curlin is the best drop kick er of the year amopg the quarterbacks, I although he seems to be somew hat be- I hind his last year’s form. ’ Cameron, of Tennessee, and McDon ald. of Tech, are brilliant for fit st-year men. (’ameron has had but on., drop : ped punt the entire season. He i- ;> cool ami self-confident player, handles the ball in jam-up style, and runs- like ’ an antelope. He is only nineteen, and is still to make his mark. Next year > he will m ar watching for all-Southern ’ honors. McDonald, of Tech, is one of the sur prises of the year. Along with Major, Reulle and Gillem. he helps to compose ■ the South's best quartet of punters; in my opinion, he is quite as good here as atty ot the other-. He weighs but 150 and how In* can make the ground he I does around the end and through the line when that line is the least bit broken up is and has been one of the mysteries of the eason. He can cutch almost anything ever let out of the cage in the shape ol a forward pass, "s' I'.- I.'..eking i- pa. . x. ollem ||i- itm ,iii, is ma ... clean, . ontldeiu and I I aggressive ,s II Will l„. u yea; from now. Also, he lias some tendency to drop the ball, which he will doubtless, overcome. Homing back to those first mentioned; Fletcher is beyond all cavil the very best quarterback of the year. His play deserves half a column. But right at the tail end of the season Fletcher was disqualified; so what’s the use in say ing a word about it? If he is ineligi ble to play on his own varsity team, he is equally Hieligible for my all-6. I. A. A. Os the remainder who have figured in j the various coaches'- line-ups as quar terbacks-the next best man'is probably Majors, of Auburn, and he is a tip-top player. But is he really any more of a quall ••rb:<-k in his team’s system of play than any other man in the back field? lie is not called upon to relay the snap and he does not play rear guard in receiving opponents’ punts. In only one usual respect is he a quar terback for his team, and that is in calling the signals. But I can not give Majors much when it comes to his sig naling ability, and so I can not select him for an all-Southern quarter on the strength of thi.-f point. Sikes Is Heisman’s Quarter. But alter eliminating Fletcher and Majors thi'e are no quarters left that I consider quite worthy to uphold the standard of the rest of the team, so what are we to do? It happens that there is playing this year one man of superlative backfield excellence who w.ouUl make an ideal quarterback—one almost as good as Ray Morrison. That man is Sikes, of Vanderbilt. He has been playing fullback and halfback all season, and he plays one of these as well as the other. It is idle to say he could not play as good a quarter as Majorj. for. as I have pointed out. Ma jors. in fact, plays no more quarter back under Auburn's system of play than do s Sikes in Vanderbilt's system. What can Sikes do? Ho is one of the very fastest runners of the year. He is the best blocker 1 have ever seen in tiie South. His tackling is the fiercest, keenest and surest of any man South this season. Next to Reulle and along with Ressljac, he is tile best bill koi down h> re. Ho can run the ends 1 ■ -t -is well as Hardage, ami ci. tainiy quite as well as any other man y>.-i His weight of 162 pounds would In- just the thing for a quarteiv back, while hi, spirit would keep anr team in the world going at top speed all the time. His ger, it play me more of .Mor’ism's han any man I have seen this year, and he Is certainly' the best rounded football player that has shown this campaign. And that’s why I put Sikes at quar terback. And if he couldn’t call signals satisfactorily (though I believe he could). I have no doubt that Hardage could, so what's, the difference? Fullback Goes To Miss. A. & M. QI'TSIDE of Auburn no college In the South seems to have the luck or the ability, whichever it takes, to turn out fullbacks. True Vanderbilt put out in Alanit r the very best the South has developed, but he and Edgerton let the < ’oininodort s »»ut. \ubu ti Ims recorded the names of '!• I.ay. I.aey, I ’ >y, Redding, two !’■ titans. Stokes, Streit and Davis. And tilth tiny come along with still another who is wmthv to mingle his bones with Honorably Mentioned By Heisman Player CENTER Co " e « e StoneySewanee GUARDS Hicks Alabama Black Tulane Lucas Georgia Means Tech TACKLES Woodward Tulane Myers . Mississippi Lamb Auburn Kelley .. . j . Tennessee elds BowdenGeorgia Long Alabama quar’ers Marks Tulane Rob ins Vanderbilt Martin Citadel Paddock G eorgia HALFBACS Newell . . . . . • ■, Auburn Arnold Auburn HaxtonMississippi Evans Tulane FolgerCitadel his illustrious predecessor; Ressija is a very tine plunger, indet, He get,-, start'd quickly and with ifcat snap he plunges in as though stfc the op posing ling is nothing but a lather b. . and he keeps on ramming tillbmething gives evety time. Ressijac’s D also excellent. Really, though'je ough' to weigh a little more for an avgouth ern fullback. Wt'bb, of Clemson, i- a spletifl full back. He weighs only 165. bus s ta and rangy, and slashes in wit great abandon. He is undoubtedly th : best players Clemson has ever eve' oped. As yet J would not say V; he had had sufficient experience to I pm, on the all-S. I. A. A. Probably the’best man for the ree ls Reulle. of Mississippi A. & Al. his man weighs 192 and is very fast.n deed, for his, weight. He has the i-n build for a'fullback. In addition,, these natural advantages, he is a t top foi ward passer, and as good a kit. er as cither Gillem, Majors or McDo ild. And if it’s bucking you demand a fullback, why, here’s the man ea give it to you. There is little doub that with his weight and speed com bined he gets up more momentum tlta’ any other man playing the game dowt here this fall. So 1 give the place to Reulle, with ; regret that 1 haven't another one so Ressljac as well. Norman, of Mercer, deserves a v honorable mention. $ »x * Halfbacks a Hard Job. rHA VE i<s»rv ed mj the last, and I know this eha : of my mirthless monogram is goin.. o trace even more wrinkles' in my 1 ,: than any of the others. Os superior halfbacks this year tie is no end. Det’s see: Hardage. S' and Collins, of Vanderbilt; Sheldon. ' Sewanee; Fonde, of Tennessee; Wil liams, of Mississippi A. & M.; Vami graaf, of Alabama; Evans, of D. S. I Haxton, of Mississippi; Newell, of Au burn; <'ook, of Tech; Taylor, of I'l° 'da; .McWhorter, of Georgia, and Fo ger, of Citadel. That’s a baker’s doz t or more right there, and lots of tol are going to be mad that 1 do no mention still others. Now, the only way I see to approac. this task is not to stop to put dowr every last little tiling that every one , these men does well —no matter iro much I should like to do this. Tie point is that I hale to select two met 1 on each of whom, after selection, may be able to spare ten words. Bu the rest I must eliminate quickly. Well. Sheldon is in his first year it the S. I. A. A. That’s no crime: bu it’s a vital weakness when we n iu< her so many of the other good one thal have been serving two or three o four years. Some don’t think much o Sheldon, anyway; but I differ fron i them radically. Sheldon is a born foot bailer, and a sure comer for All-South ern honors. Put a pin in this. Fonde is a fine-spirited player. Ib has had his chances spoiled by injurlv Williams is great with the ball, bu . too weak on defense. Vandegraaf Finished Player. Vandegraaf is a very finished footba. payer and has tile heart of a lion. H' new as yet to the position, hay inj played end nearly all of his career H;|ts off to this fellow, boys! Avans is a fairly satisfactory half bar*:, but he has too many moments o 1 in his play. He deserves, how evefi more words of praise than I hav ’ rooirt for. \ Co4k is a very graceful and tinism* l , halfback. No one can excel him ■ getting through a slightly seutti :■ ' field, lie has thotfoot ball lighting 'it .III,IIs an excellent general. B' him i Continued on Next Sport Pa<je.