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Heisman Springs New Way of Ranking Eleven ❖•+ 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 I CLOTHES I AT WHOLESALE| PRICES I Visit our store and see for I yourself. 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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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Brickley’s receipts from bls stories after each of the big games in which he has played, together with his descriptions of one or two other important games that he at tended in a newspaper capacity, have netted him considerably more than a thousand dollars. That is probably more money than was ever before earned In a single season by any famous football coach or author ity for signed articles, and certainly far in excess of the revenue derived by any of the other varsity players who have been doing the signed article stunt as a sideline to their football playing GYPSY HAIGHT, HURT IN FALL, SICK AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 6. George \V. (Gypsy) Haight, owner of a stable of light harness horses, who has been wintering at Doyles tract, at Thunderbolt, for many years, is in St. Josephs hospital, suffer ing with an Injured head. Haight was thrown out of a sulky in October and badly hurt. He came to Sa vannah ten days ago and immediately went to the hospital. 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