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8 Tech's Famous Football Coach Fails to Select a Single Yellow Jacket for His Team HEISMAN’S ALL-SOUTHERN ELEVEN Player Position eight College Morgan Center 214 . .Vanderbilt Tbigp en Right Guard 185 Au burn Barker Le t Guard 191 . . . M ississippi T. Brown Right Tackle 181 Vanderbilt Meadows. .Left I ackle 176... Auburn E. Brown Right End 160. . Vanderbilt GUI ent Left End 160. . .Sewanee Sikes Quarterback 162 \ anderbilt Mc W h orter Right Half 174 Georgia Ha rd age Left Half. 167 V anderbilt Reulle Fullback .192 MissA-M By J. W. HEISMAN '■"TA HE Southern Intfrcollepial ■ Athletic us-uciation embraces ' I the following month r~: Alabama, Kilburn. ibnvaril. (ieor gin. Mere r. Tech. Tulane, L S I . I niversity Mississippi. M,ss. A. ’>l.. Mississippi collet' . .Milsaps Collide. Trinity, Clem son. Wofford. The< ’ia<lel. I Diversity ot Florida. Vanderbilt.. Sewa nee. I ■ tiiie-.se. . Collette ot ' havleston. I e\as \ ,v \| and three colleges in Kentucky Exehidinii the Kentucky and Texas colleges on the ground of geographical remoteness my see lections will he confined to teams representing the above colleges | Center Again Goes To Vanderbilt. ,pHE first-class center of th* .ear, ' have not been as nunnTou- is here j tofore, and I am going to eriously j consider but four of their. These arc, Adams. of Mississippi: Dmton, of I. S. • U.: Loeb, of Tech, and Morgan, of Vanderbilt. Adams and Dutton are much alike in size, general ability and styli of play. They an 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 S nth land. They arc experienced linesmen, and play with great vigor. It would be a bard task to decide which is the bet ter ’of the two Loeb, of Tech, is al! this lacking one thing, and that is weight. \t ftr.-.t "Tfrr.iighl It would .-s-ein ,bsi d to dis cuss for this position n man who weighs but 155 pounds. Yet Loeb is possessed of such tremendous energy, such abso lutely indomitable fighting spirit, and ;such splendid vitality that he com pels consideration; he overcomes a ban s dicap of from ten to twenty pounds In an opponent by these factors with ease. | Thus, while differing from the othei ; two it> general style, he ranks on a pat with them, and a selection from one of the three would be lust as difficult land just as easy! to make as one from th* first two, I will say for Loeb that when it comes to pure grit he i ■ situ 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. Tills is In largi part due to the fact that he is many pounds heav ier than any of the other three, weigh ing. as he docs, about 220 pounds. A good big num I* surely better than a good little man. and that’s all there is to It. If Morgan couldn’t do any of the things that th* other trio do, it would be a different case. But you can certainly find no fault with Morgan's mapping, nor his charging and block - ing. nor yet his tackling and generally fine spirit 1i» 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 wot w thh>'.. make any tea" it th. 'untcy at center • • • Guards a Puzzle To Coach Heisman THE selection of tin most suitable pair of guards for our team-Is a profound puzzle Hardly a Southern team Is without at leari one man who has somt claim on thii position Probably’ the best of the lot Is Thig | pen, of Auburn. Thit chap is well ' qualified in every respect to hold down | the job, and if Auburn were not so well fortified with tackles I daresay we would sec him playing this position on the Orange ano Blue lineup, ijin.hl'' have little opportunity to show off or pull brilliant stuntr Steadiness and good, consistent a*d work are the ilYfegs that are r • < bed In a man if he 1 to play the position to the satisfacti on of his coaches. These qualities Thig per possesses to an ernhu nt dogre. along with lots of weight. stt ex perlent and knowledge of • iivw'' tine points of tin position 1 ’*w. I 'think. will be disposed to difl. wit i this estimate of the tan. his g i l to a position I The man forth" other flank of our ’ center Is indeed a problem, t'onslder -1 Ing merely tin ■' win- liavt played 'tat the guard position all -eason I would has. litto t .übl< in m lei ting of Mis-i-slppj A and M. . 'Mil is big ■ o,». an . hi «-v ery ' Il lft»u. • b- 1 ■ ' t g>> •• all > t is . . former -d -m- is fi<au\ tuid a flei.■ play et . itt ■ )as b., n play ing u ■ Daves I t-limin ct* on ili< ground of j light ne - ■ In 1•. • . ■ . while the i;tti« r i or l In dr<»| p» d <»n the . gr- mu .»f -ptt'd and | j-•, noed.y a tilth limit •• ironing, j Huth have put up a. splendid game and : special cofimu-ndation. Hut to be perfeutlA frank about it, I | i do not cons!d< r any of tlmsv thro, quite > ready for plao'-s on an all Soothei n. and | my team woui<l wallx be too fai b» I >\\ ' standard al that spot wei* w- to use i ’ one of these men this yeai. Switches Tackle To Guard. The difficulty is rounded by selecting : one <d the numerous exceptionally good tackles and putting him in the post- I tlon. This may not ‘ .-ni quite fair to j strictly guard candidates, not would \ do it In years when I considered tile 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 tie this yeai switch • a tackle Into iht . guard'.- place, on account of the fact ' that this all-S I A. A. represents, in general, the best rounded-out eleven players of the y ear, and to exclude any one of at least thl'e. tackle- that can be I | named wouldn ot only work a great ■ hardship on that one man, but would I make our team look like a chain with j one weak link when wn had plenty ot i good, strong links lying around idle I that we could insert at the weak spot j ' with the greatest ease Now. 1 do uot say that this subfftl ,itution would be possible or advisable ai every ot 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. Rut guard land tackle are ntlrely alike In their work, the only difference being that 1 tackle Is a harder place to play su< - . ceßsfully 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 it Left Guard. For thosi tea sins I have decna .1 to > put Barket. of Mississippi, at left guard. This man weighs 11'0 pounds, has pbived exceptionally well at tackle i 1 ■ for three y ears, and is able to run ton yards in 10 1-2 seconds. He is one of the fiercest tacklers to be found any where. and hacks up a line tn faultless I fashion Now, how can such a player be kept oft my team merely because there are two other men who play the ' tackle position about us well as he | does" And when there is no satis factory regular guard to nominate for jour second guard position? And the reason 1 want the other two men to whom 1 refer for regular tackles ' r> on both often*? ind defense I* that they i do their best w>>rk In the line, while 1 Barker is a star of the first magnitude ’ ’ when It comes to backing up the line ihi secondary defense. Playing the j guard’s position on offense, he could 1| be drawn back wl en it camo to de i tense and play in that secondary de i j fensiv< line. He a . Reulle. of Mls . . sl.ssippi A. w M.. would make the best ba . rs-u of an; nen of ibe year. T .- wouh eat M ■ ind Thigpen r to hold things steady In th. middle of j I tl’.e line, and would a capita! ar ..' rangenien'.. I let it go at that. • ♦ • Tackles Also Give Trouble. » tT ER os< rv a ion ■ * rough t mightrul ( iinsirieration. I have come to the con- , i lesion that Toni Brown, of Vander bilt. Ab vlo.. s. of \tiburi. ami Barker, of Mississippi. .U’e the three best tac kles of the year. It is with much reluctance that 1 re- i Dobbins, of Scw;tne< ami Shipp, of ''[Vanderbilt, both of whom have done K remarkably tin* work for men in their E I first y..ir on .< college team; and 1 suf '■•f. < .pial ■■. ntal spasms in setting ' . - I.' ... .1 ~, an.l Kelley and ■ Ha.'icy, of I'ennesse. Lamb has not ; ><n th. best of condition this year and his game has. inconsequence, not ■ I be. n quite o goo. straight through as -'ft wav la-t season. The Tennessee tm . Ik • s ar, about tb< best men of that • j tea a . They at'.- hat., v> ..rk'Ts, have th. I. I li< S».iry ”lc t am. -i i.o ti fietitet s t I - .v .uh gtvi on of h< ; guard po THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN | A BIT OF HEISMAN DEFENSE BY TECH! z ''. a z / / /A \ ( ; Ma ■A EzT 111.- 'i allow .lack.-ts liL’i't lor wnrtls held so well that linallx I ****- -This photograph was snapped i the t'lemson attack was forced to b.x a <ieoi’|riaii camera expert at practically hurdle over them. 1 ... Tetdi-iieorgia game. I I> it i.m did I not have Barker on my I ; hands; while at tackle they an shunt- I ed oft' because of Ihe .fact that they! have not had the same experience as j . the other men I have named, either l j wit > or against high-grade tea os is Tom Brown Great Player. I am satisfied no one will argue with ■ 1 pue about Tom Brown's filmfor a| j tackle’s commission, for lie has been | J I one of the mainstays of the Vanderbilt ] j line for several years. There seems no limit to his ambition to improve ami . ] 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 i so rar> among Southern linemen. Su- |t perb on making openings, he is an even J 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 tnan as 1 would like to have at tackle, and it might be beter were he shifted to guard, leaving Barker to !' come out to the tackle’s place. Either I i of them Is quite qnick' enough for the ; ( place. Meadows' forte is In accurate h diagnosing of the play, coupled with . simultaneous, m tion on the judgment 11 He has a tine knack of knifing through I, ami nailing the runner in ills tracks , with a clean, low tackle. Altogether, , ht appears to be the best lineman Au- , burn has this Beason, and that Is say- , Ing much when we reflect what a high- ( grade lot of forwards these are Mead- , ows will do evry well. , • * « Sewanee and Vandy Get the End Berths. P't 'R the end positions there are quite 1 a number of men who stand out well above the average. These include! 1 I Robinson, of Auburn; Conklin, of Geor-1 1 gla; Vandegraaf. of Alabama. Pounds. ] of Florida; Glllem. of Sewanee, and KI Brown, of Vanderbilt. For defensive purposes I would not I ask a better man than Robinson. He I has weight ami strength and is excep- i tionaliy clear-headed on sizing up a i play. And he plants himself in such a manne as to make it a mighty hard i thing to got him off his feet This makes it possible for him to handle a heap of titerference and “till get the I runmrhims. f Conklin, of Georgia, is mucn the same style of player, though lie comes In! | faster to smash interference (probably: 1 only a difference (1 f detail in team sys-| ■item). But his judgment i.- almost i equally Infallible, and In- is on. of the I | surest tackle s to be found anywhere ] Pounds, of Florida, is .is shifty, nifty | ami altog< the: brilliant a player fo' his inches am! ounces as could be I , found. r; two downs do, - 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- 1 eeedlngly clever tn handling forward ■ passes and lie can spill more ends go ' ing down field under punts than any other man I have seen this season H ; is too light for consideration in the I present connection, but deserves, none the less, u world of praise Glllem. ot Sewanee, is om of our best players. He has th. necessary ■ weight, speed ami • xpciienc.. He has the fo..tbalh s fighting instinct He is a ■t ' n 11. forward passer, am’ om of ■ im.st I- illiant punters ,n Dixie. He >- a tim -ang? b.iil.i ami is able to >,.u! town optH.nent-' '.invar. passe AND NEWS.SATURDAY. N()\ EMBER 30. HEISMANS 1911 TEAM Player Position "College Morgan Center Vanderbilt Peacockßight Guard Georgia MetzgerLeft Guard Vanderbilt Lambßight Tackle. .... Auburn Freeland Left Tackle V anderbilt V alton Right End Mississippi G orceLeft End Tech Hardageßight Half Vanderbilt McWhorterLeft Half Georgia Davis Fullback Auburn Morrison Quarterback Vanderbilt in quantities. There can be little doubt of Gillem's right to a place. On de fense i would play him at side-back. "Nuek" Brown, of Vanderbilt, has been toiling away now for several years at that end position, and has always put out ,i jam-up good game. Last year he was almost ripe enough, and this year he is so beyond all doubt. Brown is not a big man. yet he 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 acctit.icy and dispatch all kinds of forward passes, and he is almost immune to injuries Then, too. Brown has been playing with a high grade team against other classy teams for years now, and he knows the game las few Southern players ever get to do. , Then are few surer men for places on lour team than Brown. Quarterback Job Is a Conundrum. J.N attempting the solution of the ' quarto -back problem, h difficulty of | an entirely different nature from that I of picking out star players confronts Ins. i refer to th. different systems of i play and tin different ways that teams > use their qaurters nowadays. Formerly | the question of how the quarter handled I his ball from snapper to runner entered ! very largely in the determination of his ! fitness sot premier honors. Bui more and i:or. each year we see teams dis i pensing w ith the intermediate handling iof ip. ball by the quarter, and on .some i teams Tech and Auburn, for instance the quarterback scare. ',y ever relays the snap. On such Gams 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 ailed something in the official lineup, and so tlte coach of such a team picks out some one man and calls him tlte quarterback; sometimes, perhaps, be cause 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 (for which reason the other man is denomi nated fullback). which necessarily leave- the title of qua o r for the first man. I I vaiiteu mor. niei. om. aingi t-vngtn in ' e ""-kti..-Id, t gethei with heavy interfering, I would probably choose Major, of Auburn, for my quar ter. If I wanted a man who could run the ends, punt th.- ball and return punts. 1 would not overlook McDonald, of Tech. If I wanted a .-killful handler of the ball from snapper io runner, and om* who was a good field general, no doubt I would choose Fletcher, of Mis sissippi, or Cameron, of Tennessee. And so it goes. I’heii there i; Tolley, of S -wane. , who certainly handles the center's -naps nicely, and who runs himself with the ball tn good form and with tin. drive. Still he is not a very fast man, else Loeb, of Tech, would never have tun him down and caught him from behind. Neither is he a sure man on catching punts,,notwithstanding lie caught them all in the Tech game; in other games ihe missed a number of them. But Tol ley makes a very satis,factory - quarter i back and one who stands out from the i general field on his season’s work. I i find it hard to turn him down—very ' i hard. Curlin Best Drop Kicker. Vanderbilt’s quarters are all pretty 1 fair men. but none of them s, er.i to have given entile satisfaction to th.-ir coaches, Curlin is th. best drop kick er of tile year among tlte quarterbacks, although he seems to be somewhat be hind his last year’s form. ('ameron, of Tennessee, and McDon ald, of Tech, ate brilliant for first-year men ('ameron has hml but one drop ped punt the entile season He is a cool and self-sontld.-nt player, liamlle tlw ball in Jam-up style, ami runs 'ike : an antelope. He is only nineteen, and is sure to make ids mark. Next year ' he will bear watching for ull-Southeru honors. ' McDonald, of Tech, is one of the sttr ‘ prises of the year. Along with .Major. Reulle and Glllem, he helps to eompos. the South's best quartet of punters: in ' my opinion, he is quite as good here as any of the others. He weighs but 150. and how he can make the ground he does around the end and through the line when that line is the hast idt broken iff. Is and has been one of the mysteri-s of the season. H< can catch almost anything evei let out of the cage in the shape of i forward pass, and his blocking is pa- t xcellem e. His i tackling is not clean, confident and aggressive as it will oe a yeai from ! now. Also, he has some tendency to I drop th> ball, which be will doubtless i overcome. Homing back to those first, mentioned: I Fletcher is beyond all cavil th« very I best quarterback of the y ear. His play deserves half a column. But right at the tail end of tile 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, lie is equally ineligible for my all-S. L I Os the remainder who have figured in 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 . quarterback in his team’s system of play than any other man in the back field? He is not called upon to relay ihe snap and he does not play rear guard In receiving opponents’ punts. In only om* usual respect is he a quar ; terback for his team, and that is In '■ailing 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 i strength of this point. Sikes Is Heisman's Quarter. t But after eliminating Fletcher and . Majors there are no quarters left that ! 1 consider quite worthy to uphold the > standard of the rest of the team, so what are we to do? It happens that I there is playing this year one man of superlative backfield excellence who , would make an ideal quarterback—one , almost as good as Kay Morrison. That 3 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 , Majors, for, as I have pointed out, Ma jljors. in fact, plays no more quarter back under Auburn's system of play than does Sikes in Vanderbilt’s system. What can Sikes do? He is one of the very fastest runners of the year. He is the best blocker I have ever seen lin the South. His tackling Is the I fiercest, keenest and surest of any man [South this season. Next to Reulle and along with Ressijac, he is the beat * bucket - dow n here. He can run the ends ' almost as well as Hardage, and cer r tainly quite as well as any other man -of th-. \ *a His weight of 162 pounds i, won d b. lust the thing for a quarter- - back, wiille his spirit would keep any team In the world going at top sj.eed - all the time. His general play reminds r me more of Morrison’s than any man I - Imv. seen this year, and he is certainly a the best rounded football player that s has shown this campaign. e And that's why I put Sikes at quar ,i terback. And If he couldn’t call signals r satisfactorily (though I believe h< i, could), I have no doubt that Hardage could, so what’s the difference'.’ • • * Fullback Goes r , To Miss. A. & M. s ZAI'TSIDE of Auburn no college tn thr ' Soutli seems to have the luck or e the ability, whichever it takes, to turn ’ out fullbacks. True Vanderbilt put out i in Mani. : tile very best the South has e developed, but he ami Edgerton let the It ('ominodoivs out. ■ Auburn lias recorded the names ot ‘ Shafer Lay Lacy, I'oy, Ridding, tv.e s i’entons. Stakes. Streit and Davis. And J now they come along with still another > who is worthy to minfle ills boaea with I Honorably Mentioned By Heisman ~F~ On account of lack of space, Mt. , Heisman was unable to discuss a num ber of players. Following are those i that he also wishes to boost for their » good playing: Player College CENTER StoneySewanee GUARDS Hicks Alabama Black Tulane L-/ucas Georgia Nleans T ech TACKLES Woodward’Tulane NlyersMississippi Lamb Auburn KelieyTennessee ENDS BowdenGeorgia Long Alabama QUARTERS Marks Tulane RobinsX anderbilt Martin Citadel Paddock Georgia HALFBACKS Newell Auburn Arnold Auburn HaxtonMississippi Evans iulane FolgerCitadel his illustrious predecessors. Ressijac is a very fine plunger, Indeed. He gets started quickly and with great snap; he plunges in as though sure the op- I posing line is nothing but a feathe; bed. J and he keeps on ramming till something igives ev. ry time. Ressijae’s defense is also excellent. Really, though, he ought ! to weigh a little more for an all-teouth ern fullback. Webb, of Clemson, is a splendid full ' back. He weighs only- 165, but Is tall t and rangy, and slashes in with great > abandon. He is undoubtedly one of the - best players Clemson has ever devel- - oped. As yet I would not say that be , ; had had sufficient experience to be put . | on the all-S. I. A. A. Probably the best man for the place , is Reulle. of Mississippi A. &- VI. This . man weighs 192 and ie very fast, in- • deed, for his weight. He has the ideal , build for a fullback. In addition to i these natural advantages, he is a tip s top forward passer, and as good a kick er as either (lillem. Majors or McDon- f aid. And if It’s bucking you demand of r a fullback, why, here’s the man eau give it to you. There is little doubt that with bis weight and speed com -1 bined he gets up more momentum than „ any other man playing the game down here this fall. t So 1 give the place to Reulle, with a „ regret that 1 haven’t another one for Ressijac as well. Norman, of Mercer, deserves a very j honorable mention. «> 4 « t 3 I Halfbacks a > Hard Job. 1 i I HAVE reserved my nardest task fc f * the last, and i know this chapt. 5 of my mirthless monogram is going to e trace even more wrinkles in my brow f than any of the others. c Ot superior halfbacks this year tlier. 1 is no end. Let’s see: Hardage, Sikes 8 and Collins, of Vanderbilt; Sheldon, of e Sewanee; Fonde. of Tennessee; Wil -8 Hams, of Mississippi A. & M.; Vande ' graaf, of Alabama; Evans, of L S. I’.; " Haxton, of Mississippi; Newell, of Au F burn; Cook, of Tech; Taylor, of Flor 1 Ida; McWhorter, ot Georgia, and Fol ger, of Citadel. That’s a baker's dozen '■ or more right there, and lots of folk.-- n are going to be mat' that I do not e mention still others. n Now, the only way I see to approach tl this task is not to stop to put down t every last little thing that every one of s these men does well—no matter how • much I should like to do this. Tin n point is that 1 have to select two men, s on each of whom, after selection. I - may be able to spare ten words. But y the rest I must eliminate quickly. il Well, Sheldon is in his first yea; in the S. I. A. A That’s no crime; but 1 it's a vi'.'l weakness when we retnem y her so many of the other good ones t that have been serving two or three or four years. Some don’t think much of . Sheldon, anyway; but I differ from them radically. Sheldon Is a born foot baller. ami a sure comer for All-South ern honors Put a pin in this. e Fonde is a fine-spirited player. He has li.ol his chances spoiled by injuries. Williams is great with the ball, but too weak on defense. Vandegraaf Finished Player. Vandegraaf is a very finished football play er and has the heart of a Hon. He p is too nm as yet to th* position, hav ing played end nearly all of his career. T Hats off to this fellow, boys! n Evans is a fairly satisfactory half it back, but he has too many moments ot s let-up in his play. He deserves, how ever. more words of praise than 1 have p room for. <’ook is a very graceful and finished it halfback. No one can •x< el him in 0 getting through a slightly scatteree I field He has the football fighting spit r it ami is an excellent general. Behin h Continued on Next Sport Page.