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Tech's Famous Coach Reviews Football Season
Bv J. W. Heisman.
rT-MIE ranking of teams accord
ing to their work in dlffer
ent departments of play,
while entirely new in a season’s re
view. is submitted as offering some
points of probable interest. To say
that the compilation of this table
„ ave me an amount of study
scarce!)’ to be overestimated will
readily be believed.
Certainly I can not claim infalli
bility in thus expressing my mere
personal opinions on such points,
the great majority of which can
not be ascertained in any sure and 1
precise way whatever. Indeed,
weight is the one point that might
he verified by instrumental or me
chanical measurement.
I have endeavored to rank the
teams In the order of the first five
in each qualification. And in so do
ing 1 have had reference often
enough to the mere style or man
ner In which a team performed un
der the particular heading,, without
always Including its force. For ex
ample. under charging ability I
have put down Tech as being fifth
on their season’s work. Now, in
this case I do not mean that in ac
tual effectiveness the light Tech
line could push back so heavy a
line as Georgia’s or Mississippi's,
but simply that their -quickness,
style, eagerness and uniformity
were superior to that of the others.
Take interference; it might well be
that on account of the superior in
dividual speed of most of the Van
derbilt backs they could get out to
the opposing tacklers faster, and.
being heavier, could hit harder than
the Tech backs. But their form
was by no means superior to that
of the Tech players, nor, on the
whole, do I think it was any more
effective, for that matter.
It will be noticed that there is
scarcely a department of play in
which the Vanderbilt team is not
placed somewhere. This explains
fully their all-around playing ex
cellence and team superiority. To
a lesser extent this is true of Au
burn, Georgia and Sewanee.
To a certain extent the possibili
ties of individual and team devel
opment are dependent upon, and
are the outgrowth of the more or
less natural advantages summed
up In weight, speed and previous
experience.
in other words, the teams that'
score heavily in these ought to be
found standing well in most of the
depa tments that follow. Some of
them are not so found. But they
retain their advantage in the three
departments mentioned, and these
are. in general, so important in
their bearing on football effective
ness that those teams were bound
to stand well on the season’s per
formances. whether they developed
well the other and later artificial
‘finements of the game or not.
Consider, for a moment, the
Tech team. It had little weight,
individual speed or previous var
sity experience. It was deficient in
three basic essentials. And yet the
team performed wonderfully well.
Now. how could it so perform, lack
ing the first essentials, unless it de
veloped an unusual number of the
pureh technical and mechanical
elements which go to make up the
superstructure? To be sure it had.
or rapidly acquired, fighting in
stinct. which is one of the most ini
poi tant of all the natural require
tt- nts, hut the other points it had
to acquire very rapidly.
Vanderbilt Victorious.
At the beginning of the season
many felt that the Commodores
could not possibly put as good a
team in the field this year as last,
" 'i ng that they had lost a quartet
"I stars of exceptional brilliance.
Hut as usual, the Tennesseeans
mund iu their midst a whole lot of
high-grade new material when the
leum started work, and this Coach
AlcGugin knew very well how to
seize upon and solder into the best
advantage.
Barring the team’s work in the
Auburn game, it is my opinion that
no previous Vanderbilt eleven hud
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Departments in Which Dixie Teams Excelled
WEIGHT—I, Vanderbilt: 2, Georgia; 3, Auburn; 4, Mississippi A. &
M.; 5, Mississippi.
NATURAL MATERIAL—I, Vanderbilt: 2, Georgia; 3, Auburn; 4, Se
wanee; 5, Mississippi.
STAR PLAYERS—I, Vanderbilt; 2, Auburn; 3, Sewanee; 4, Georgia; 5,
Mississippi A. & M.
INDIVIDUAL SPEED—I, Vanderbilt: 2, Sewanee; 3, Auburn; 4, Ala
bama; 5, Florida.
TEAM SPEED—I, Vanderbilt; 2, Tech; 3, Auburn; 4, Sewanee: 5,
Georgia.
MOST CONSISTENT—I, Tech; 2, Vanderbilt; 3, Sewanee: 4, Auburn;
5, Georgia.
EXPERIENCE—I, Georgia; 2, Auburn; 3, Vanderbilt; 4, Mississippi
A. & M.; 5, Sewanee.
FIGHTING SPIRIT—I, Tech; 2, Vanderbilt; Vanderbilt, Auburn and
Alabama tied.
TACKLING ABILITY—I, Sewanee; 2, Vanderbilt; 3, Mississippi; 4,
Tulane; 5, Alabama.
CHARGING ABILITY—I, Auburn; 2, Vanderbilt: 3, L. S. U.; 4, Mis
sissippi A. & M.; 5, Tech.
TEAM DEFENSE—I, Vanderbilt; 2. Mississippi A. & M.; 3, Sewanee;
4, Georgia; 5, Tech.
PUNTING—Auburn, Mississippi A. & M.. Sewanee and Tech tied.
DROP KICKING —1, Vanderbilt; 2, Auburn; 3, Sewanee; 4, Alabama;
5, Mississippi.
FORWARD PASSING—I, Citadel; 2, Vanderbilt: 3, Tech; 4, Florida;
5, Mercer.
GETTING DOWN FIELD UNDER PUNTS—I, Tech; 2, Auburn; 3,
Vanderbilt; 4, Sewanee: 5, Tulane.
INTERFERENCE—I, Tech; 2, Vanderbilt; 3, Auburn; 4, Georgia; 5,
Sewanee.
BACK FIELD DRIVE—I, Auburn; 2, Vanderbilt; 3, Mississippi A. &
M.; 4, Georgia; 5, Clemson.
HANDLING KICKS AND BRINGING BACK—I, Mississippi; 2, Au
burn; 3, Tennessee; 4, Vanderbilt; 5. Tech.
VARIETY OF ATTACK—I. Tech: 2, Georgia; 3, Vanderbilt; 4, L. S.
U.; 5, Mercer.
BEST OPEN PLAY—Tech.
BEST CLOSE PLAY—Auburn.
BEST BALANCED—I, Vanderbilt; 2, Tech; 3. Auburn; 4, Georgia; 5,
Sewanee.
much, if anything, on this one. And
even in that game there was little
the matter with the team’s playing
except that they fumbled the ball.
And it must not be forgotten that
in that game the team was with
out the services of its captain and
greatest player, which really makes
a lot of difference.
Vanderbilt’s glorious showing
against the best team of the coun
try was a source of great gratifica
tion to all Southerners, and their
season would hive been an entire
success had they done nothing be
sides this.
I wish at this point to invite at
tention to the fact that ail of
Southern football is coming up.
First, we have the fine yearly show
ing that Vanderbilt makes against
even the biggest and best of them.
Then we have Aimurn holding
Vanderbilt to a tie, and then we
have Georgia defeating Auburn.
Next we reflect that Sewanee tied
Georgia and really outplayed them,
and following that, we notice that
Tech played Sewanee a virtual tie,
and Alabama played them an ac
tual tie. and, at the same time, al
most defeated Georgia. Again, Au
burn is barely able to defeat L.. S.
IT. and Mississippi A. & M. And
so the waves of comparison spread
until we can trace at least some
slight relationship to our big broth
ers on the Eastern and Western
fields.
Auburn Had a Great Team.
Auburn had fine material and
made great use of it. That team
had more drive and real power than
any I have seen Auburn turn out.
with possibly one exception.
1 do not doubt that Auburn would
have defeated Georgia, had the
game taken place on November 23
instead of on the 28th * and, any
way, they deserve oodles of praise
for their grand game against the
Commodores. Auburn gets more
and better natural material every
year. True, she has t<T develop It
herself: but the fine traditions she
is making will do more and more
in that direction as the years go
on, and she will soon be in a po
sition where she can take on a
big Northern game as well as Van
derbilt, if she so wishes.
Georgia Very Strong.
Georgia had about the best and
most material this year of any In
her career. The Athenians had
every right to look for a truly great
team. But something went wrong
on the inside for a while—the ship
hit a sunken iceberg and came very
near to foundering in mid-ocean.
Many teams would go to pieces
after such i catastrophe and. in
deed. It was a question for a while
whether this one would ever right
herself and get to port or not.
Finally the ship’s carpenters got
things well patched up again, and
she not only came into port
safely, but with colors dying and
bands playing. Yes. it was a splen
did rally after such a t’cmt: that IS
Georgia's main aehievemirt, for the
year. For. had she met with noth
ing but calm waters, she was en
tirely due to make a record-break
ing voyage.
In the last two games of the sea
son the teamwork of the Georgians
was beyond criticism, and they
played" with fine spirit. In McWhor
ter they have a star of marvelous
luminosity; he deserves all that
has been said of him.
Sewanee a Fine Defensive Team.
The Tigers had a much better
balanced team than last year, and
withal one far more weighty. Their
tackling was quite the best I saw
either this season or last. Os
course, their punting game was
good, and they played clean, hard,
spirited football.
In Sheldon. Sewanee has a man
whom I consider bound to make a
great player. The back field seemed
not well balanced. for Coach Cope
kept trying- : -d ur niilr tnew
X..1 ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.' FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912.
together who could wqrk as a unit.
This sometimes happens with play
ers, no matter how good they are
as individuals; and in this case
Sheldon’s work suffered because of
the inability of the entire back field
to give him the concentrated sup
port that Mr. Cope was after.
The esprit de corps of the team
was excellent, and next year I look
for the Tigers to have a much
stronger scoring machine than this.
The Tech Machine.
Many who know football have
said this fall that the Tech team,
considered as a mere piece of mech
anism, was the best machine ever
turned out in the South. They and
others have also said that it was
as game a bunch of featherweights
as we have yet seen. With both
these judgments I am inclined to
agree, albeit I state the fact thus
publicly only because I am unwill
ing that these featherweights, who
fought so hard as to win the ad
miration of their staunchest rivals,
should be deprived of their just
dues, merely because it happens
that their coach is writing in a
critical capacity. The fact is, the
boys did it themselves; they had
the stout hearts, the clear heads
and the eager desire to learn and
to do; it is they who deserve all
the credit.
Starting with nothing, they had
by Thanksgiving day learned the
game as few teams ever get to
know It. Their interference was
particularly clever—the best, in
fact, I have ever seen. And no op
posing team was able to bring a
punt back for so much as a dozen
yards in the entire season.
Tech has developed a lot of green
material this year and should be in
the field next year with a much
stronger eleven.
Before dismissing them from
mind, I wish to say that I consider
that the Yellow Jackets were the
most meritorious team of the year
—all things considered. Last year I
had neither difficulty nor hesita
tion in awarding this plum to Ala
bama, and I have no less in hand
ing it to Tech this year.
FOOTBALL LEADERS NAMED.
At Sewanee —Guard McCallum.
At Alabama —Hargrove Vandegrraaf.
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BOSTON, Dec. 6.—Charles Brlckley,
Harvard's great drop-kicker, who has
been in the limelight all fall, has picked
up more ready money through his journal
istic efforts during the season than was
ever before earned by any varsity player
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FALL, SICK AT SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 6. George \V.
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