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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 20,1006.
Football Still the Sporting Live Wire
^Edited By PERCY H. WHITING.
VALE’S FOOTBALL TEAM IN ACTION
Thl« photograph shows how brilliantly Knox, the Tale halfback, played at West Point. He hnd Just naught a punt by Mountford and raced ’I
yards back with It when the camera clicked, Captain Morse, of the Yale team, was at his side continually and nut un such good Interference that
Knox eluded every soldier on the field except Captain Hill, Tha latter Is shown In the picture tuckllng Knox from behind It was the best tackle
made during the game, and prevented Knox from speeding 40 yards further for a touchdown.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
District Attorney Jerome lins announced that he will break
the next neck of gambling in New York or it will break his
neck.
Both, maybe.
When he goes after race track gambling he goes after some
of the richest and riiost influential gamblers in New York.
If he could clean out the hand-book men he would do more
than any other man has ever done, and more than almost any
of them have ever tried to do.
And if ever there was a pestefcrous little cveil it is thnt said
hand-book game.
Only two more football da ys between the sporting page and
the bleak mid-winter dreariness which stretches almost unbrok
en from December 1 to “reporting season.”
The New Orleans Item commented recently on the fact that
a New Orleans semi-professional team nearly secured a Cotton
States League franchise.
It will bo a long day before such a thing happens. The New
Orleans territory belongs to, the New Orleans team and the only
way any other team could get in the city would bo by playing out
law baseball.
, And the Cotton States has trouble enough to wohblu along
and dodgo yellow fever and debts without taking on a fight with
the National Association.
Some paper, with fine but unconscious humor, has printed
a note to tho effect that Tebeau is trying hard to expand tho
iWestern League and niake it better.
“Sufferin’ snakes!” Tcbeau’s efforts to make the American
'Association “better” have been one of the saddest sights of or
ganized baseball—and about o a par with Charley Prank’s ef
forts to "purify baseball,’.’ and Muggsy .McUraw’s attempts to
eliminate “rowdyism.”
Please pardon us while we smile.
From now until the day before tlio ClemRon game gloom in
wads may be expected to be the hand out to the football sharps
who visit Tech.
But the cripples will all he in the line-up o nthe day which
made the turkey famous and what they’ll do to Clemson—well,
we’ll talk that over after the game.
Class Teams Battle Hard
But Neither Side Scores
Special la Tlie Georgian.
. Kmory College, Oxford, Ga,, Nov. 20.
Decidedly the moat exciting acene ever
enacted on the Emory College gridiron
wax witnessed yesterday In the senior-
sophomore game. From the time of the
klck-ofT It wns a hard fight between
Emory's two .best tehms, but neither
side succeeded .In scoring a point. The
final score was 0 to 0.
The present sophomore team Is the
only team that hns ever succeeded In
keeping the present senior eleven from
scoring. After the game the highly
eluted sophs paraded the streets of Ox
ford, crying the boast the seniors made
In their 1900 relay messuge: "Kkldoo.
reltfy! We play football!" Wade, Bird
and Elliot were sophomore stars, while
J. M. and W. A, Woodruff and Smith
made excellent gains for the seniors..
Yesterday's game between the Junior
and freshman teams resulted In a score
of 24 to 0 In favor of the Juniors.
Carl Smith did some sensational work
by kicking goal four times In succes
sion. On account of the muddy field
the freshmen almost Invariably fum
bled the pigskin. ’
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ALEX SMITH HERE NOV. 27
“New York, November 20.
-h\ O. Byrd, Atlanta, Ga.:
•‘WUI leave Monday, 26th, for Atlanta."
(Signed) * “ALEX SMITH."
Such In the telegram received yesterday by F. G. Byrd, chairman of
the golf committee of the Atlanta Athletic t'luh, and the question of when
Alex Smith will be here Is at last settled.
Smith, It tnay be well to add. Is America’s champion golfer, the man
who has won practically every open tournament which he has entered
this year. Including the U. S. G. A., Eastern G. A. and Western G. A. open
championships. Also, he Is the man who will be golf professional of the
Atlanta club during the winter.
STATISTICS OF THE CARLISLE INDIANS AND VANDERBILT FOOTBALL ELEVENS THAT MEET ON GRIDIRON THURSDAY. |
.. Age. m. Wt. Cnrllslo Indian*. Tmlllnn. ,. v *n d r rbllt Wt. HI. Age. Prepared. Home Toe*.
Norib Dakota, Ch ppewn 21 (Mil 170 W. Uardner. I.oft end. '-Blake. 156 6.1t 19 Bowen. Nashville, Tone.
Norib Dakota, Chlbpews 2.1 178 Wa-seu-Ke. la-ft tackle. Pritchard m 6.02 20 Bslrd. Miss.
North Dakota, Slum 23 B.on'4 174 Dillon. Deft guard. Chora 176 6.00 22 ■ Fnjcttr. Jin.
Oklahoma. Monaco 21 8.M 199 limit. outer. Htone ISO 6.03 21 Mooney. Nashville, Tana.
Minneapolis, Chippewa 20 6.10 192 Iji llnoifne. night guard. McLain 2ot 6.10 21 - - (Homester, MU'.
North Dakota. Chippewa 22- 6.11(4 IM Duls.l*. lilght tackle. Noel 1*3 6.07 20 Ilnwen, Nashville, Trim.
Oklahoma. Delaware 22 5.11 1C* raid. Ksendlne. ltlght end. B. Blake 174 8.00 21 llowcn. Nashville, Trim.
Minneapolis, Chippewa 20 5,19 146 A. Libby, Quarterback. C'osten 160 6.10 24 McTyelre. McKensle, Teas.
New >ork. Timeororn 20 6.00 134 Jit. Plcaauiut. la-ft half. D. Blake, captain -170 6.21 24 Bowen. Nashville, Tima.
I’lsh, Caddo 1!) 6.07 143 llendrli. Ulght half,. Craig 164 6.08 24 It. AII. School. Cnlleoks, Tons.
Minneapolis, Chippewa 23 5.10 19! Little lloy. I'nlllmvk. Mauler 179 ,A02 20 Wallace, Nashville, Trim.
Averages 2144 6.1044 1® \ • 5.1044 1® 17544 5-10 . 2144
Southern Football Coaches
Pleased With New Football
CLEMSON WINS
FROM U. OF T.
COACH M’GUGAN THINKS
I/ANDY MAY BEAT INDIANSI
“Football In the South under the new
mien |h u success," suy the coaches of
the prominent Houthern teams.
The new code, which stirred up such
a vast amount of criticism last winter,
and which, before the season, moat of
the coaches milted In condemning, has
been tried and found satisfactory, says
tho current Issue of RlUfcway’s Maga
zine (Atlanta section).
It miiy be remembered thnt last fall
the athletic tea-pot was stirred by
such tempestuous disturbances hecnu.se
of football that it looked us though the
game would be relegated by im>st re
spectable colleges to the athletic down-
and-out club, along with ping-pong,
pugilism and a few others. It Is not
necessary to recount the many attacks
on tho game—attempted actions by leg
islatures forbidding it, Its abolition by
Columbia and other universities and a
sctm’hing through the press which It
will long remember.
A new rules committee was conse
quently appointed and ordered to “re
form" the game. Whaf’they did was,
to put It gently, an “adequacy,"
Naturo of Changta.
Briefly, the changes which they de
cided upon provided (1) that ten yards
must be gained In three downs; (2)
that after a kicked ball bit the ground
everybody was “on side” and It be
longed to the man who got It; (3) that
fine forward pass could be made during
each play; (4) that when lined up the
two teams must be separated by a
"neutral zone" equal to the length of
the ball; (5) that hurdling be barred,
and (6) that time could be taken out
because of Injuries only three times in
each half.
Barring two or three games for each
team, an entire season has been played
under this revolutionary code. The
press lias given a vote of confidence to
the new* rules. The public has ex
pressed Its favor by attending the
games in greater number than ever
before.
Up to the present the coaches had not
I been heard from. To find out^what
they thought about the "new football" a
list of eighteen questions was submit
ted to the most prominent coaches In
the South. From the answers to the
questions the following facts may be
set down, as the views of Southern
coaches on football in the 8outh under
the new rules:
What Coaches Think.
The new rulea have not materially
lessened the number of minor Injuries.
It Is a question whether or not they
have had any material effect on the
number of serious Injuries.
They have assuredly made football
faster and more open—probably 35 per
cent more open.
They have lessened brutality, though
most of the coaches protested that
there was not much anyway.
Strange to relate, tho coaches fa
vored the ten-yard rule, in a propor
tion of about two to one. Most of
them, however, voted In favor of allow
ing ten yards in four downs.
With hardly a dissenting vote tho
coaches gave their approval to the "oil-
side kick" rule and not a man raised
his voice in protest against the for
ward pass, which wns the novelty most
^reviled before the season began. Only
one roach gave his opinion that it
would b« removed from the? code In
future years.
A practically unanimous vote was
given to the rule requiring a "neutral
zone.”
Strange to relate, however, the rule
forbidding "hurdling” did not suit a
very large and very prominent minor
ity.
To the question, "Which change in
the rules do you consider the most
vital?" the experts were almost equally
divided between the "on-slde kick" and
the **ten-yards advance" rule.
The question of which of the new
rules was the most desirable brought
out a tie between the "forward pass"
and the "on-slde kick,” with the "ten-
yard" rule, the rules against brutality
and the "time-out” rule coming In for a
scattering vote.
There was a trifle more unanimity of
opinion about which rule among the
new ones was the least desirable and
the "ten-yards" rule came In for the
vote of lack of confidence, though the
"forward pass," "on-slde kick” and
other rules received some unfavorable
notice. *
BIRD SEASON
is open. So Is Old Felt Hat Season.
Bussey will clean and shape you.s
tike new.
Special to The Georgian.
Clemson College, H. C„ Nov. 20.-
Clemson football team defeated the
University of Tennessee on a sloppy
field 16 to 0.
Neither team scored In the first half.
Tennessee could not make the required
distance at any time, and w’as fre-
| quently forced to punt. The ball was
i constantly In Tennessee’s territory.
Four times In the first half Clemson
was within striking distance, only to
lose the ball on fumbles or downs.
McLaurln, McFadden and Coles starred
for Clemson.
The line-up:
Tennessee. Clemson.
Prcx?ton center Clarke
Dougherty .. right guard. .Brltt-Carter
King right tackle .. ..McLaurln
Leech /. right end Coles
Gunther .. ,. left guard Keel
Walters ,. .. left tackle .. .. Gaston
Cochran left end Lykes,
, Caughman, flpratt.
Loueks .. ..quarterback .. McFadden,
Warren.
Baker .. .. ..right half.. .. Latimer,
Blease.
Keener.. .... left half ..Alien-Turner
Peevy fullback Derrick
Referee—Shaughnessy, Notre Dame.
Umpire—Beverly, Lehigh.
CELEBRATION
FOR “PENNSY”
Philadelphia, Pa., Not. !0.—Having
at last a victory to celebrate, Penn
sylvania celebrated with the entire cur.
rlculum of the university. The stu
dents cut all lectures and proceeded to
make merry. They assembled in front
of the training house and called upon
each man who figured In the victory
over Michigan to participate.
Tomorrow Pennsylvania will get se
rious again, and every effort will be
made to get the team In first-class trim
for the annual Thanksgiving contest
with Cornell.
Mi In! to The Georgian.
, Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 20.—Coach
McGugln, of the Vanderbilt team, hua
the following to say concerning the
Vanderbllt-lndlun game on Thursday:
‘Nobody In the world has any right
lo expert Vanderbilt to heat the Car
lisle Indians. They have undoubtedly
the moat remarkable teatn In their his
tory. Michigan heat us 10 to 4. Penn
sylvania beat Michigan 17 to 0 and the
Indians beat Pennsylvania 24 to 8. That
would make It look like there were
about 40 points between'the Indians
and Vanderbilt.
“To show that It was no accident
when the Indians beat Pennsylvania
they turned round and defeated
Swarthinore, who had previously de
feated Pennsylvania. Harvard, after
almost all of sixty long minutes of play,
managed to score five points against
the Indians on seme very doubtful
playing am! Harvard looks to he bet
ter than Yale and Princeton to date.
Here Is another little bit of dope:
"Out of all the Western colleges
>car Minnesota Is the only one to I
a team near her standard of prev
jeats. Thoy were fortunate at Mlq
nesnta In having most of their eld <
perlenced men hack, so that the five
game title, the three-year rule, the tv-
tralnlng-tahle rule, the no-prellmlnarfj
training rule, ami the many Mk
things that the conference tried
to football In the West, didn't affect li't|
so much. Minnesota has a big humk|
of rams, powerful and fast, who pro!
ably average 190 pounds, yet they «<■
unable to rio anything against the In
diana Saturday at all, while the Indian'
were gathering In 17. „ .
"Another thing, this reput'd t<l-|
pound average of the Indians
mighty Iiff-i/ilor to me. They are re-|
ported to carry 39 bucks on their squwfl
and If they only average 165 pounds tMI
Indians must be shrinking up. I play~|
against these Indiana once myself ami
there wasn't hardly a buck In the rrnxif
who weighed as little as 165 pound'I
Vanderbilt has aonte chance to »i".
however."
HARVARD MEN
ALL IN TRIM
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 20.—The
opening practice of the last week for
the Harvard football team was very
encouraging, as U showed that all the
squad will be on hand for the Yale
game.
Keersberg will be at work tomorrow
with his wrenched knee all right,, and
Orr, whose foot bothered him. will also
be In the practice tomorrow. Dorr, who
has been out of the game with a severe
cold, will be In the game.
Every play which Harvard will de
pend upon for ground gain was gone
through. The signals for all of them
are new and many of them have not
been sprung In public. This means that
Reid has so tar been able to keep with
in the team what he will spring at New
Haven next Saturday.
Billy Smith. After “Phenom"
But Hasn’t Landed Him Ve)
Billy Smith Is Just bubbling over with
a "good story" these days. This Is no
"Jim Pox surprise," either. Judging,
too, by the width of his smile and the
slxe of his expectations, he Is Just on
the point of signing some "phenom."
Up to yet, however, the story has not
been deemed by the said B. Smith to
be sufficiently ripe for the plucking.
But be on the lookout for something
large and juicy.
Paul Cobb, the brother of Cyrus Cobb,
the Georgia boy who played such great
baseball with Detroit last season, has
written to Billy Smith, asking tor *
try. Smith saj's that Paul Cobb |J *
“husky gent," and has the api» a™" 1 -*
of being a ball player.
Bernie McCay left Monday night ft
Mobile, where he will talk over Dlansj
for next year with the Mobile nwneraj
Bernie has signed as menage) : '['I
Mobile team and will undoubtedly ) n "*l
a good man for the beat paying te»»l
in the Cotton States.
Billy Smith has found a watch b*
which he will gladly turn over to ■'”>
body who will "prove property.' as to
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NOTE8 OF SPORT.
The bout between Benny Yang
Matty Baldwin, which was t; 1
come off before the club at Cm ‘‘
night, has been postponed until ’. >
row night.
It was news to a great many >■ 1
learn that Edward Hanlon Is f 111
terested In the Brooklyn basebai i
Business men of Salt take City
formed an association to try
franchise In the Pacific Coast
League.
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