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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Time Levels All-the Foothtill Hero Finds No Subs in the Classroom
RANKS GEORGIA ELEVEN
So Saying, Mutt Proceeded to Pull the Trigger
By ‘Bud’ Fisher
IS EXPECTED
Tech, Vanderbilt and L. S. U, Are
Tied for Third Place In
1913 Standing.
Bv -J. W. 11< isninii.
I ' T is a slmplf* enough matter t<»
write n review of the football
reason in th*> Southern Inter
collegiate Athletic Association, but to
attempt a ranking of all the teamjj
therein Is a task from which th®
stoutest heart (or nerviest dopeste.-;
may well quail.
No one denies that Auburn is en
titled to the championship, but that
is about the only well-established
place In the ranking Enough has
been said and written about the
Plainsmen and their play to render
any extended review of their season
superfluous. They had splendid ma
terial and lots pf it; and the coaches
knew how to utilize It. Not every
college or aet of coaches knows bow
to handle good and plentiful material,
even If they havj It, and Auburn h
greatest achievement lay in making
the most of her opportunities.
The strength of the Auburn team
"hs revealed by the fact that they
did not need a greatly diversified
style of play in order to win their
games Their play w.»s aimost en
tirely straight football, without even
forward passing figuring to any ex
tent in their work Tills.serves to
snow how powerful their men were
and how well they were drilled ir
the rudiments. It was a very fine
team, and Auburn may well be proud
of it.
• • •
X T OW comes tlie lug job in trying!
to determine the orfler of prior
Jty between Georgia, Vanderbilt. I
lyouisiana and Tech.
That Georgia deserves to rang !
ahead of Tecdi is at once conceded, j
but It is not so clear ttint she de
serves to he rated ahead i.f the other
two. And. on the other hand, it i- 1
not clear that these other two men -
« higher rating than does Tech. And
here's the cause* ,,f all <>ur trouble:
After a very careful and thorough 1
consideration of the fac ts in the case, I
I believe It right to rank Georgia !
ahead of all the •tber three, with i I
cleAn hold on second place. Van
derbilt will register a big "holler" ..t i
this point on the ground that the; (
held Auburn closer than did Georgia.
So they did, but they failed to do)
anything against Virginia that wis
at all comparable to what the Geor
glans accomplished against the same
team
Vanderbilt will point to her big
•core against Sewanee, but. with all
due respect to Sewanee, her team wt s
not up to standard this year, and I
do not rate that victory as any great
er than Georgia's against North Car-
olina. And after you have consid
ered these two gam«*8 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 fktprj ovei I i
hama—a team that beat Tennessee*
worse than Vanderbilt could beat
them—and a clear victory over the
strong Tech team. And thes** are
the reasons 1 place Georgia ahead
of the Commodoret
* * •
\T OW for Louisiana They had a
I ^ strong team, and they have a
satisfactory season's work to their
credit. But five • f the games on
their schedule were very easy; an 1
yet they were scored on in two of
those. Three of their other games
were with S I A A. teams—Mis
sissippi A. A- V Auburn and Texas
A. & M, These were the only strong
lenms Louisiana played. One of them
she lost and the other two she tied;
so that she can i lake no very loud
claim on what she accomplished in
REAL games And that Is why I
place Louisiana second to Georgia
\On just w hat basis* should teams be
ranked anyway? There could be a
lot of hefty argument on that point
itself It’s something like in college
basehall—no two teams play t lie
same opponents, nor the same num
ber of games nor under Identical
conditions Therefore at best the
whole thing is a guess
Ves. but a guess as to what? as to
which of two teams ha* made the
better record throughout the season,
or Avhich is the Stronger at the close
of the season, or which of the two
would win if they encountered each
other in a game: and if so. on what
date are you supposing such n game
to take, or to have taken, place?
And there you are.
Sc* much depends upon the angle
from which you are viewing the
question. It is easy to understand
that for good and sufficient reasons
one team might he much further
along in its development early in
October than another, and would
probably win the game were those
two teams to come together at that
time. On th*» other hand, the first
t«»ani might have retrograded, rela
tively. by the latter part of Novem
ber, while the other had gone on to
fulfill her destiny, the exigencies of
her schedule and the local peculi
arities of her situation in such a
way as to he exceptionally strong
right near the close of the season,
whereas it showed practically no
strength during the first half and
could not therefore be expected to be
able to make muc h of a record Un
der these circumstances should the
comparative records be relied upon
to show which was the better team?
«»r should we Just look at the two
teams in action at the same or at
different times during the season and
ex press an expert opinion as to
v ich would win if they were to
come together? And If tiie latter is
the test, let us not forget that we
still have to hear in mind what the
PLAN of development of each team
was in order to bo fair to both and
put game at such a date dur-
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discuss That how
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Hou) Hckman Ranks Teams
1. Auburn.
ft. <’lemson and Tennes-
2. Georgia.
see.
?>. Tech, Vanderbilt and
11. Florida and Missis-
sippi (’ollege.
(>. Sewanee and Miss. A.
Id. Tulane.
14. Citadel.
and M.
Id. Mercer.
S. Alabama.
Hi. Charleston.
ing the season as would do justice
to the lop-notch playing strength of
both —which would be a thing im
possible to do.
So you sec we have here a very
complicated proposition to handle.
* • *
1 WILL frankly say that I try to
* take ALL these points into con
sideration in attempting a ranking,
it will not give general satisfaction
for anyone to rank all the 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 MUST largely be taken into
account even though it may have
planned mote definitely for a par
ticular rival or two at a particular
time of the season, rather than on Its
w hole season s record.
And after that one must still leave
room for the Injection of a little per
sonal opinion into the equation as tc\
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 any .* There Is no sure way to
decide. If there were, no such thing
as betting, on the outcome of games
would take place; the fact that people
bet and bet proves that they are of
different minds. But It is put upon
my shoulders to hazard an opinion
and a duty that 1 must face. Others
may disagree with me and plenty
of them will. We shall not go to war
on that account.
• * •
MOW. as between Louisiana. Yan-
derbilt and Tech I > m not see
but what Tech is FULLY deserving
of a ranking on a par with the other
two. Let us look again at what all
three teams did.
Vanderbilt heat Sewanee badly; hut,
on the whole, hardly an\ worse—In a
football sense than did Tech when
it is recalled that tHe Tigers scored
twice on Vanderbilt, whereas she.
couldn't score at all on Tech. So this
comparison nets neither team any
thing.
Vanderbilt held Auburn c loser than
Tech. But in mid-season the Com
modores could defeat Tennessee but
one point, while Tech’s mid-season
victory nver Sewanee was achieved
after the latter had already decisive
ly defeated Tennessee. Of course.
Vanderbilt comes back and says,
Yes. but we are not comparing mid-
i
season form, but form at the close of
the season." Very well; could any
team show more brilliant playing form
on Thanksgiving Day than Tech? To
beat this sfirong team two touch
downs better than even Auburn could
score against them should certainly
he a classy enough performance to
suit anybody.
And if one inquires into Tech's
early season form they find the Yel
low Jac kets going at a clip that none
can surpass, for they defeated both
Citadel and Chattanooga early in the
season by scores that were not even
approached by any other teams at
any time during the entire season.
Now, while Vanderbilt did nothing
especially worthy of mention In the
early part of the season, and still
nothing In mid-season, hut did come
to a fine height at its close, Louisiana
came to her height at mid-season,
against Auburn. The first part of
her season shows nothing to wonder
over, nor does the Inst. She made a
good showing in one game in mld-
season at the top of hot* form, and that
lets her out.
But Tech did things early in the
season, and in the middle of the sea
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
hut 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, have held both Au
burn and Georgia closer had she
been able to encounter either team
earlier or later.
These I consider good and sufficient
reasons for saying plainly that at the
very least Tech is tied with both
Louisiana and Vanderbilt for third
place.
* * *
AS Sewanee won from Alabama and
' * A Tennessee she must be handed
sixth place; for Alabama defeated
Clemson, the only other possible con
tender outside of Mississippi A. and
M.
Inasmuch as Mississippi A. M.
also defeated Alabama, it may he ar
gued that they hav* as much right to
he put sixth as Sewanee; and I dare
say they have. Sewanee won over
Alabama b\ a three points’ margin,
while A <N- M won by a seven-point
margin. In addition \. A- M. played
the strong lamisiana team a fie
game On tile other hand Sewanee
did about equally well to hold Texas
to a close score. Altogether, it is
a stand-off, and a tie for sixth pla c
Ritchie Starts Work
For Championship Go
With Tommy Murphy
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. With a
crowd of something more than 200 fans
on hand to watch him, Willie RJtcjie
went through his first Sunday's grind
prior to his approaching mill with Har
lem Tommy Murphy, with the light
weight championship at stake. Ills 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 wlfh the followers of - the game.
Murphy did his boxing with Frankie Ed
gwards and Eddie Miller, three rounds
apiece.
4 Harvard Stars on All-Eastern
V*V *!• 9 V *1* • V V«V V • V V • V
Carlisle Players Also Honored
is as fine as I can venture to draw'
the line.
* • *
ALABAMA and Clemson perhaps
1 1 won and lost about the same
number of games during the season!
but inasmuch as Alabama won over
the Palmettos by a decisive margin
of 20 points the laurel wreath must
he handed the former, for where a
direct game does take place between
two teams the results of tha:
contest must be accepted for their
face value regardless of what com
parative scores in other encounters
may show.
In ninth place I must rank Tennes
see as tied with Clemson. Both won
from Davidson by low' scores, and
both have to their credit one corking
good game against a strong team —
Tennessee against Vanderbilt and
Clemson against Georgia. Tennessee,
as well as Clemson, were snowed un
der by Alabama, while both had their
victories against ’esser teams.
* * *
FLORIDA and Citadel lost to all me
1 big teams, but played pretty fair
ball, all things consid red. throughout
the season. The former won from
the latter and so must be rated high
er. Both of them deserve better
ranking than Mercer, although the
game between Citadel and Mercer
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 ganivs
and creditable victories Her work
for the season entitled her to a place
alongside of Florida.
Texas A, & M. has been left out
of the ranking, as she is so far away
it is impossible to keep good track of
her over in this neck of the woods.
They had a good team all right, as is
shown by their playing Louisiana io
a standstill.
Consideration of the Kentucky
colleges is omitted for the same rea
son.
Chattanooga is not in the associa- I
tion. but she made a fine fight of U
against ev ery team except Tech. Her |
season’s record would be on a plane j
with- that of Florida. *
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Bv Frank G. Menke.
N 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
only a sprinkling of real football stars
in 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 take* rank as one of the
greatest ends that ever played the
game. He is a hard, sure tackier,
gets down under punts with amaz
ing speed and seldom during the past
season did he fall 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 Ify Dartmouth.
Harvard Tackles Picked.
Storer and Hitchcock, the Harvard
tackles, loom up as the best men that
played at their positions in the East.
Time and again during the past sea
son the rival elevens directed their
attack against these men, and almost
as often w f ere they thrown back—
many times with a loss. Both men
demonstrated their value on offensive
plays in every game during the sea
son.
Brow'n, the big Navy guard, and
Weyand, of the Army, had no equals
on the Eastern gridiron this year.
Brown was a stone wall 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, of 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
is worthy of first choice.
There was no hesitancy about the
fullback job. Briekley stood head and
shoulders over any man that played
in the center of the backfleld. Mahan
has made a wonderful record this
year, and 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 backfleld quartet.
First Eleven. Position.
Merrillat (Army) End
Storer (Harvard) Tackle
Brown (Annapolis) .. Guard
Garlow (Carlisle) Center
Weyand (Army) ... Guard
Hitchcock (Harvard) Tackle
Hogsett (Dartmouth) End
Ghee (Dartmouth) Quarter
Guyon (Carlisle) Left Halfback
Mahan (Harvard) ....right Halfback
Briekley (Harvard) Fullback
Second Eleven. Position.
Hardwick (Harvard) End
Talbott (Yale) Tackle
Ketcham (Y'ale) Guard
Marting (Y r ale) Center
Gaunns (Cornell) Guard
Ballin (Princeton) Tackle
Wagner (U. of Pittsburg) End
Prichard (Army) Quarter
Whitney (Dartmouth) . Left Halfback
Spiegel (W. & J.) ....Right Halfback
Calac (Carlisle) Fullback
Ban on Willard May
Be Lifted To-morrow
USE TINKER ON
HE INFIELD
Bridwell Is Slipping and Chicago
Fans Believe Johnny Can Win
Flag With Shortstop.
C HICAGO, ILL., Dec. 1.—Like a
duck takes to water, the Chi
cago fans are taking to the
announcement that there is a slight
possibility that Joe Tinker will return
and play shortstop for Johnny Evers
and his ball club. "Give Evers Tinker
at short and he’ll win the flag in the
National League next year," is the
talk that one hears around sporting
circles these days.
And, after all, there is a chance
that Tinker may return to the (’libs.|
Tinker is willing; Evers is willing -
in fact, anxious—and there is no
doubt that President Murphy
would be pleased to have the pepper/1
Joe back within the Cub fold. Bn:
there is one other who must be will
ing for a trade—Garry Herrmann, the
president-manager-czar of the Cincin
nati club.
But Herrmann is sadly in need of I
a first-class catcher and it may be
that he will cast his eyes Oubwardl
when looking for a working partner to I
Clarke. You know Johnny Kling]
Is out with his annual retirement no
tices, so Gait/ nil have to look I
around and find a lirst-class receiver'
to assist Clarke.
He can look all around the National|
League circuit and still not do as we 1
as he can right here in Chicago. The I
catcher we now refer to is, of course.!
Roger Bresnahan. Ever since the I
c losing of the 1913 season the winter j
league scribes have been trading Rog
er. First we had him going to Brook
lyn, and as a manager, but when I
Wilbert Robinson affixed his Jolinj
Hancock to a Superba contract thai
let Bresnahan out.
DES JARDIENS LEADS CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—Paul Des Jardiens.1
center rush on the University of Chicafil
championship football team, has been|
elected captain of the 1915 eleven
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—It was an
nounced to-day that the suspension of
Jess Willard by the State Athletic Com
mission, which has been in force against
the Texas heavyweight since last March,
will he raised to-morrow by the commis
sion, and Willard will be able to fill
his engagement with Carl Morris at the
Garden Athletic Club Wednesday night.
Hoping for some such favorable verdict,
both boxers have been in aet4ve training
for more than a week. so the late action
in no way will affect the condition or
the men when they step into the ring
The Cigarette of
“ Quality
AFTER POLICEMAN’S JOB.
John Anderson, once a noted major I
league first baseman and outfielder, has '
given up the real estate business at j
Worcester. Mass., and is seeking an ap
pointment as policeman.
TINKER MAY SELL RANCH.
PORTLAND. OREO.. Deo. t.—Owner
McCredie, of the Portland Coast League
basehall c lub. is going into ranching as
a side issue. He has already secured
an option on some property owned by
Joe Tinker near this city.
"SHONO" COLLINS BUYS HOME.
PITTSFIELD. Dec I John F.
C'Shono’*) Collins. of the Chicago
American League baseball team. has
bought a house on Springside avenue, in
this city, and will make Pittsfield his
residence.
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