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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
in the Classroom
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Tech, Vanderbilt and L. S.
Tied for Third Place
1913 Standing.
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I T is a simple enough matter to
write h review of the football
»#«#on In the South* rn Inte
collegiate At.hlet4<* Association. but i •
attempt a ranking >f all the teams
therein Is « task from which th
stoutest heart (or nerviest rlopest* i -
ntav well quail.
No one denies that ^uburn it en
titled to the championship blit that
1# about the onlx «e.l-estnbllsh^d
plaa a In the ranking Enough ha -
been eaid and written about th
H*lriam*m and their play to render
any extended review of their sen son
superfluous They had splendid in i
»enal and lota of it. anil the < oa< n •-
knew how to utilize it Not ever>
* nllege or aet of coaches hnow.« how
to handle good and plentiful material,
even if they have it, and Auburn e
greatest achievement lay 1n makitiK
the most of her opportunities
The strength of the Auburn tesm
was revealed by the fact that the>
did not need a greatly diversified
style of pla> in order to win th ir
games. Their plnx \\,.s almost m-
titnJy atraight football, without <\ *a
forward passing figuring to any .
tent In their work. This Serves
show how powerful their no n \\ «■
and how well the> were drilled tr
the rudiments It was a very fin-
team, and Auburn may well be proi
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^ OW 1 omes the big Job in trying
determine the order of prio'
i 1. \ between Georgia, Vanderbilt.
Louisiana and Tech.
That Georgia deserves to rank
ahead rtf Te< ii Is at once concou •<.
but It is not so Hear that ahe d
servos to he ruled ahead if Die other
two. \nd ou the other band, it
not clear that these other two men
• 1 "her rating than does Tech. And
i i-'s 1. cause of all our trouble:
After a very careful and thorough
■ onsld rat ion of the facts 1 ri the < 1 -
i believe It right to rank Georgia
■ - ■ <>f ->‘1 1 a «h#r threw, with
cm n hold on second pises V
d'-rb w register a big “holler"
th s point on the ground that the'
held Auburn closer than did Georgia
So they did. but they failed to do
anything against Virginia that w -
.1 all comparable to what the Geor
gians accomplished against the same
tea in.
Vanderbilt will point to her big
•core against Sc wanes, but. with all
due respect to Hews nee, her team w
not up to standard this year, and I
do not rute that victory as «n' grea'
• r than Georgia's against North Car-
nlinn. And after you have consid
ered these two games of the Commo
dores. what have they • left worth
dwelling on in their season's record?
Nothing. And what has Georgia left
outside of her good victory’ over Ala
barna a team that beat Tennessee
worse than Vanderbilt could beat
them and a clear victory over the
strong Tech team And these .ire
the reasons 1 place Georgia ahead
of the Commodore*
Ritchie Starts Work
For Championship Go
With Tommy Murphy
4 Harvard Stars on All-Eastern
v • v v • v v • v *’*•*’- • v *!«••;•
Carlisle Players Also Honored
that Tinker may return to the Cubs
Tinker is willing; Evers la willing—
in fact, anxious—and there Is no
doubt that President Murphy
would be pleased to have the peppery
Joe back within the Cub fold. Bit
there is one other who must be will
ing for a trade—Garry Herrmann, the
SAX FRANCISCO. Dec. 1.—With a
crowd ofAsomething more than ilOO fans
on hand to watch him, Willie Ritchie
wem through his first Sunday’s grind
prior to Ills approaching mill with Har
lem Tommy Murphy, with the light
weight championship at stake. His per
formance, so far as the crowd was con
cerned, consisted chiefly of six rounds
of boxing with three sparring part
ners, and, although gym work is not
the truest test of a man’s ring ability,
the San Franciscan displayed quite
enough to warrant the assertion that he
is improving
Harlem Tommy Murphy started work
at Shannon’s place, and the gym, was
packed with the followers of the game.
Murphy <1 id his boxing w ith Frankie Ed
wards and Eddie Miller, three rounds
apiece.
fullback job. Brickley stood head and
shoulders over any man that played
in the center of the back field. Mahan
has made a wonderful record this
year, ami possesses marvelous abil
ity as an open field runner. Guyon,
the Indian, a terrific line smasher, a
great open field runner, a drop kick
er, a punter, and a wonderful tackier,
completed the backfield quartet.
First Eleven. Position.
Merrillat' (Army) End
Storer (Harvard) Tackle
Brown (Annapolis) Guard
Garlow (Carlisle) Center
Weyand (Army) Guard
Hitchcock (Harvard) Tackle
Hogsett (Dartmouth ) . . j End
Ghee (Dartmouth) Quarter
Guyon (Carlisle) Left Halfback
Mahan (Harvard) ....right Halfback
Brickley (Harvard) Fullback
Second Eleven* Position.
Hardwick (Harvard) End
Talbott (Yale) Tackle
Ketcham (Yale) ' Guard
Marti tig (Yale) Center
Gaunns (Cornell) Guard
BaJlin (Princeton) Tackle
Wagner (l*. of Pennsylvania) ...End
Prichard (Army) Quarter
Whitney (Dartmouth) .Left Halfback
Spiegel (W. & .1.) ....Right Halfback
Calac (Carlisle) Fullback
N F EW YORK, Dec. 1.— And now we
approach the most difficult task
of our giddy young life—the
selection to-day of an All-Eastern
eleven, an All-Western team to-mor
row' and All-American aggregation
on Wednesday as our final football
job of the year.
Never before has the picking been
harder. In other years there was
1 nlv a sprinkling of real football stars
iy the East and West. This season
practically every team in the coun
try has brought to light one or more
luminaries, who by all the laws of
fairness ought to be given positions
on the all-star outfits.
Merrillat takea rank ax one of the
greatest ends that ever played the
game. He is a hard, sure tickler,
gets down under punts with amaz
ing speed and seldom during the past
season did he fail to spill a play that
started around his wing. On the of
fense he is even a mightier power.
As a broken runner he has few peers,
and he handles the forward pass with
perfection.
Hogsett was one of the big factors
in the great showing made during the
season by Dartmouth.
Harvard Tackles Picked.
Storer and Hitchcock, the Harvard
tackles, loom up as the best men that
played at their positions in the Easi.
Time and again during the past sea
son tlie rival elevens directed their
attack against these men. and almost
as often were they thrown back—
many times with a loss. Both men
demonstrated their value on offensive
plays in every game during the sea
son.
Brown, the big Navy •guard, and
Weyand. of the Army, had no equals
on the Eastern gridiron this year.
Brown was a stonewall on the de
fense and a great offensive player as
well.
Brown, in the opinion of the crit
ics. is one of the best placement kick
ers that ever donned the moleskin.
Weyand all season has shown almost
uncanny ability in breaking through
his opponents’ line and either blocking
bunts or dumping a play almost as
soon as it started.
Garlow, of Carlisle, was the strong
est part of the Carlisle line on de
fensive play, and for a heavy man
got down the field faster under punts
than any center that played in the
East.
Ghee at Quarter.
Making the selection of the All-
Eastern quarter was the hardest task
of all. Ghee, of Dartmouth: Logan,
of Harvard; Huntington, of Colgate;
Prichard, <*f the Army, and Welch, of
Carlisle, all are wonderful players —
each seemingly entitled to the honor
of being called the best. Rut an al
most microscopic examination of their
records made it seem to us that Ghee
s worthy of first choice.
There was no hesitancy about the
Clarke. You know Johnny Klin?
is out with his annual retirement no
tices, so Garry will have to look
around and find a first-class receive?
to assist Clarke.
He can look all around the National
League circuit and still not do as weil
as he can right here in Chicago. Tha
catcher we now refer to is, of course,
Roger Bresnahan. Ever since the
closing of the 1913 season the wdnte?
league scribes have been trading Rop
er. First we had him going to Brook
lyn. and as a manager, but w f h*n
Wilbert Robinson affixed his John
Hancock to a Superb a contract that
Bridwell Is Slipping and Chicago
Fans Believe Johnny Can Win
Flag With Shortstop.
KT ()W for Louisiana Thr> hurl a
l ^ strong team, and they have a
satisfactory season's work to their 1
credit. But five of the games on
their schedule wers very eas\ an l
yet they were scored on In two of
those. Three of their other gam-**
were with S. ). A. A teams Mis
sissippi A. & Y , Auburn and Texas
\ AM. These were the onl\ strong
teams Ix>uisiana played. One of them
she lost and the other two she tied:
so that she can make no \er\ loud
• laim on what she accomplished in
REAL games. And that is why I
place Louisiana second to Georgia.
On just what basis should tea in# he
rnnke 1 anyway? There could be a
lot of hefty argument on that point
'self. It's something like in college
baseball r»o two teams play the
same opponents, nor the same num
ber of games, nor under identical
conditions Therefore at best the
whole thing is a gue*»*
Yes, but a guess as to what'’ a* to
which of two teams hae made the
better record throughout the*season,
or which is the stronger at the - lose
of the season, or which of the two
would win if they encountered each
other in a gam A and if so. on what
date arc you supposing such a game
to take, or to have'taken, place”
And there you are
Fo much depends upon the angle
from which you are viewing the
question. It i# eas> No understand
that for good and sufficient reasons
one tram might he much Further
along in its development curb in
< »ctober than another, and would
probabb win the game were those
two teams to come together at that
tim*\ < >n the other hand, the first
foam might have retrograded, rela
tively. by the Inner part of Novem
ber. w :ile the other had gone on to
fulfill her destiny, the exigencies of
her schedule and the local peculi
arities of her situation in such i
"H\ as to hi t v . ptionnlly strong
right neat the close of the sea.-on.
whereas c showed practically no
strength during the first half ami
ould not therefore he expected to be
able to make much of a r» ord l’n-
• ier these circumstances s -iuld the
comparative records be relied upon
io show which was the better team?
t »r should we just look at the two
•-.■•ms n action at the same or at
Afferent times during the season and
xpress an expert opinion as to
the season." \ ery well: could any
team show more brilliant playing form
or. Thanksgiving Day than Tech? To
beat this strong team two touch
downs better than even Auburn could
score against them should certainly
be a classy enough performance to
suit anybody.
And if one inquires Into Tech’s
«aii\ sea sod form they find the Yel
low Jackets going at a clip that none
can surpass, for they defeated both
Gitadel and Chattanooga early in the
season by scores that were* not even
approached i>\ an> other teams at
any time during the entire season.
Now. while Ynmlerbilt did nothing
especialh worthy of mention in tin-
early part of the season, and still
nothing in mid-season, hut did come
to a fine height at its close, Louisiana
came fo her height at mid-season,
against Auburn. The first part of
her season shows nothing to wonder
over, nor does the last. She made a
good showing in one game in mid
season at the top of her form, and that
lets her out.
But Tech did things earl> Ir^thc
season, and in the middle of -4HSli-
son, and at the end of the season.
Yes. she lost to both Auburn and
Georgia, but just at a time when she
had in the field her weakest line-ups
of the year, due to absolutely nothing
but bad luck. By this it is not meant
that she would have won from these
with a different line-up. but she
would, no doubt, ha\e held both Au
burn and Georgia closer had she
been able to encounter either team
earlier or later.
These 1 consider good and sufficient
reasons for saying plainly that at the
very least Tech is tied with both
! Louisiana and Vanderbilt for third
plat e.
re a very
handle.
j WILL frankly saj that 1 try to
take ALL these points into con
sideration in attempting a ranking.
It will not give general satisfaction
for anyone to rank all tile teams
according to his opinion as to their
relative strength on the last playing
day of the season, although, such a
plan would have much argument in
its favor The SEASON record of a
team MI ST largely be taken into
account even though it may have
planned more definitely for a par
ticular rival or two at a particular
time of the season, rather than on its
w'ltole season's record.
And after that ne must still leave
room for the injection of a little per
sonal opinion into the equation as tr»
which team would win were they to
come together,
Vanderbilt played neither Tech nor
Louisiana, nor did either of the oth
ers play either of the remaining two.
How is one to decide which would
win in the case of an encounter be
tween mix ' There is no sure way io
decide. If there wet*', no such thing
as betting on the outcome of games
would take place; the fact that people
Let and bet proves that they are of
different minds. But it is put upon
my shoulders to hazard an opinion
and a duty that l must face. Others
max disagree with me--and plenty
of them will. We shall not go to war
on that account.
can venture to draw
unuei DES JARDIENS LEADS CHICAGO-
’ is the CHICAGO, Dec. l.-s-PauI Des .Tardier
porting center rush on the University of Chiea
championship football team, has be
chance j elected captain of the 3915 eleven
ALABAMA and Glemson p
won and lost about the
number of games during the s
but inasmuch as Alabama woi
the Palmettos by a decisive i
of- -0 points the laurel wreath
be handed the former, for wl
direct game does take place b«
two teams the results of
contest must be accepted for
face value regardless of.what
pa rati vo scores in other eneo
may show.
In ninth place I must rank T
see as tied with Clemson. Bot
from Davidson by low score
both have to their credit one <■
good gam*' against a strong i
Tennessee against Vanderbilt
Clemson against Georgia. Ten:
as well as Clemson, were snow
der by Alabama, while both hai
victories against ’esser teams.
Ban on Willard May
Be Lifted To-morrow !
The Cigarette of
i ^Quality
NRVx YORK, De< - . 3.— It was an-
nounced to-day that the suspension of
Jess YYillard by the State Athletic Com
mission. w hich has been in force against
the Texas heavyweight since last .March,
will be raised t<» morrow by the commiu-
sion. and Willard will be able to fi.l
his engagement with Carl Morris*at th“
Garden Athletic Club Wednesday night
Hoping for some such favorable verdict,
both boxers have been in active training
for more than a week, so the late action,
in no way will affect the condition of
the men when they step into the ring.
LORI DA and Citadel lost to a if Lie
* big team#, but played pretty fair
ball, all things considered, throughout
the season. The former won from
the latter and so must be rated high
er. Roth of them deserve belt r
ranking than Mercer, although th«
came between Citadel and Mere r
was a tie.
Tulane belongs down there some
where. but at exactly which notch it
would be hard to say—probably be
tween Citadel and Florida.
Mississippi College came into
prominence throughout the first half
of the season with some nice games
and creditable victories. Her work
for the season entitled her to a place
alongside of Florida.
Texas A, iX M. has been left out
of t he ranking, as she is so far a way
it is impossible to keep good track *>f
her over in this neck of the woods.
The\ had a good team all l ight, as is
shown by tiieir playing Louisiana io
a standstill.
Consideration of the Kentucky
colleges is omitted for the same rea
son.
ChatlanouKa is not in the associa
tion. but she made a fno fight of ; r
against e\er> team excep; Tech, lfer
spasun’s record would be *»n a plane
with that <*f Florida.
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VOW, .*' between Louisiana, Van
■
i bin what Tech is Fl’Ll.Y des. i vim
| «*f a l inking on tt par with the othc
! 1XX t. Let us look ag^in at w hat al
j t hive teams did.
AFTER POLICEMAN'S JOB.
John Anderson, once a noted major
league first baseman and outfielder, has
given up the real estate business at
Worcester, Mass., ami is seeking an ap
pointment as policeman.
AS Sexxanee won from Alabama and
** Tennessee she must be handed
sixth place; for Alabama defeated
Clemson. the onl\ oilier possible con
tender outside of Mississippi A. and
TINKER MAY SELL RANCH.
CORTLAND. ORJ2G., Dc. Owner
McCrebie, of the Portland Coast League
has* ball club, is going into ranching as
a side issue. lie has alread> secured
an option on some property owned by
Joe Tinker near this city.
twice on Yando
couldn't score at
comparison nets
t hing.
Vanderbilt he*
Tech. But in t
Inasmuch as Mississippi A. & M.
also deb ited Alabama, it may be ar
gued that lhey hav« as much right to
be put sixth as Scwanee: and 1 dare-
sax they have. Sewatiee won ov< r
Alabama by a three points’ margin,
while A A M won bx a seven-pevnt
margin In addition. \. A- M. played
the strong Louisiana mam a *ie
cam- < >n the other hand. Sewn nee
dv about equa.lx we 1 to hold T«'Xrs
to a close score Utogether. it is
a siaml-off. and a tic f>«r sixth pla e
Auburn
•ser
• SHONO" COLLINS BUYS HOME.
PITTSFIELD. Dec. I John F.
• "Shono”) Collins. of the Chicago
American League baseball team. ha-
bought a lions* op Springsale ax'enuc. in.
this city, and \x ill make Pittsfield his
residence.
im I ly defeat
nd » Y a tiderhi