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LOCAL METHODISTS will gather with several thousand others from
nine Southeastern states and Cuba, January 2-5, 1951, at Savannah,
Georgia, scene of the founding of Methodism in America. The occasion
is the Mid-Century Convocation for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the
Methodist Church. Fourteen Bishops and 15 lay leaders addressing pub
lic sessions at the Wesley Monumental Church (center) include, left to
right, beginning at top: Senator John J, Sparkman, Alabama, member
United Nations Delegation; Dr. John R. Mott, elder church statesman
and 1946 Nobel prize winner; Bishop Arthur J. Moore. Atlanta, Georgia,
chairman Southeastern Jurisdictional Council; Congressman Walter H.
Judd. Minnesota, former missionary to China; Mrs. Frank G. Brooks,
Mt. Vernon, lowa, president. Women’s Division of Christian Service of
Board of Missions and Church Extension; Mrs. E. U. Robinson, frank
lin. Tennessee, president, Women’s Society of Christian Service: Dr.
Roy L. Smith. Chicago. Methodist publishing agent; Dr. Walter K.
Greene, Spartanburg, South Carolina, president Wofford and Columbia
Colleges: Bishop J. Ralph Magee, Chicago; Bishop Newell S. Booth,
Africa, Bishop Fred P. Corson, Philadelphia; and Bishop A. Frank Smith,
Houston, Texas.
Cavalcade Os Georgia
THE STORY OF FOOTBALL IN GEORGIA:
Part 1- Origin of Football In the Deep South
(Historical release by office of
Georgia’s Secretary of State
BY GUS BERND
Historical Assistant, Office of
Secretary of State
Football was played -in the big
universities of the East long before ]
it began in the South. The game ;
was brought below the Potomac by i
faculty members who migrated south- I
ward from such schools as Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Johns '(lopkins,
Brown, and Penn. The first intercol
legiate football game in the South
appears to have been between Duke
and the University of North Carolina
in 1888. Duke won the first two :
games by scores of 16-0 and 25-17. ■
Other early starters in the South
were: Virginia (1888), Wake Forest
(1883), Washington & Lee (1890),
and Vanderbilt (1890). Virginia lost
to Princeton 115-0 in 1890, but was
a standout in the South during the
early years.
Soon football was started in Geor
gia. It was brought to the State by
Pro. Charlie Herty, who later dis
tinguished himself in the scientific
world as the eminent Dr. Charles H.
Herty who saved the naval stores in
dustry with the Herty cup and in
vented the paper from pinepulp pro
cess. He was the first to coach football
at Georgia. Football was introduced at
Auburn by Dr. George Petrie. These
two educators had been together as
graduate students at Johns Hopkins
in Baltimore where they had spent
nearly as much time learning the
ABC’s of football as they had spent
on the academic subjects. They be
gan preaching the details of foot
ball to students at their respective
southern locations. Student interest
in the game developed rapidly^
The first inter-collegiate football
game in Georgia was played between
Georgia and Auburn in Atlanta on
February 22, 1892. Auburn won 10-0;
and the spirited rivalry between these
two opponents had begun. This
game went almost unmentioned in
the press. /It would be several years
before there was enough interst to
warrant extersive newspaper cover
age of the gam es. Not long after her j
initial victory over Georgia ambitious I
Auburn played North Carolina and
received from the more experienced !
Tarheels a 60-0 trouncing.
Football uniforms in the early I
days of the game provided insuffi- [
"ient physical protection; and the I
mass style of play used was exceed- |
"ngly dangerous. It was not until the
present century that the helmet came
into use. In spite of numerous set
backs the South warmed up to foot
ball rapidly. It was a sport well
suited to the spirit and traditions of
“the Fighting South,” —nickname for
Dixie introduced by writer John
Temple Graves many years later.
In 1890-93 Georgia, Georgia Tech,
Vanderbilt, Mercer, Sewanee, Au
burn, Tennessee, Alabama, Ole Miss.,
Tulane, L. S. U. and others kicked
off. No conference had been formed
in the South at that time; and there
were no strict rules governing player
I eligibility. Primitive fields of play
; were used, often without any stands
I for spectators about them. Faculty
I members as well as students played.
The game lacked the beauty of the '
forward pass, still years away from
adoption. There were no huddles j
either. A so-called “on-side” kick
was often used. A player could catch
his own team’s kick. Early scoring
was two points for a safety and only
four points for a touchdown. There
j has been considerable change in the
coring through the years. It ap
pears that there have 'been four meth
ods of scoring touchdowns since 1892;
four points for td and two for goal
after, four points for td and one for
goal, five and one, now six and one.
The field goal which now counts
three formerly counted five.
■ The first of the gridiorn 'battles be
! tween Georgia and Georgia Tech took
place in Atlanta on November 4, 1893,
j Tech won 28-6. Dr. Leonard Wood,
! later General Wood, who distinguish
! ed himself as Chief of Staff and con
' tender for the Republican presidential
. nomination, was the star of the day
! for Tech. Then an army surgeon at
i Fort McPherson, it appears that '
। Wood somehow matriculated at Tech I
| as a parttime sudent in order to play !
; cotball. He was then in his thirties, !
( having attended Harvard in his twen- ’
i ies. The Atlanta Constitution ran a
substantial account of the game. The
| nlay of Henry Brown and George
' Shackleford was described as “su
i rerb” for Georgia. Georgia played
I a profesisonal back named Ernest
Brown, who, though forced from the
I game by an injury, was the subject
.of charges from Tech partisans.
Georgia suporters likewise resented
the appearance of Wood in the game
for Tech. Also, it was said that some
Georgia rooters greeted Tech players
with rocks and stones. After the '93
■■eason, football temporarily declined
at Georgia Tech; and Georgia was
j not met again until 1897.
j By 1894, many Southern colleges
| had professional coaches. Eligibility
requirements for players were
I strengthened as the game progressed.
| The supremacy of Carolina and Vir
| ginia continued. Tech lost her 1894
| contest with Auburn 94-0. Georgia
I won a great 10-0 victory from
Auburn later in this same season.
The game was played at Exposition
Park in Atlanta and was decided
when Georgia’s first football hero,
“Cow” Nalley, blocked an Auburn
kick that resulted in a safety and the
■ margin of victory. Mercer started
, playing Georgia in 1892; lost to Geor. -
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, Alamo, Ga.
gia that year 50-0 but*beat Tech 12-0.
Glenn ‘Pop’ Warner became coach at
Georgia in 1895 and contributed
much to the development of football
in the State. Georgia held powerful
North Carolina to a 6-0 score in 1895
and defeated the Tarheels 24-18 .in
Atlanta in ’96. The first huddle ever
seen on a football field is said to
have been in the Georgia-Auburn
game 'of 1896 which Georgia won
12-6, fooling Auburn by running con
secutive plays with a qick lineup.
George Whitfield Price, an Atlanta
player, shone brilliantly in Georgia’s
victory over Carolina. “Cow” Nal
ley, converted from center to half
back since ’94, Cothran, Lovejoy, and
Gammon, all sparked the attack that
beat Auburn. 1896 was a great seas
on for Georgia. When Tech played
Georgia again tn 1897 the Bulldogs
beat the Yellow Jackets 28-0.
An unfortunate episode of the 1897
season almost ended football in Dixie.
It was the tragic death of Von Gam
mon, Georgia back, from injuries re
ceived in the Georgia Virginia game
played in Atlanta and won by the
Cavaliers 17-4. Gammon was in a
pileup on the field and was taken to
Grady Hospital where he died early
the next morning of concusion of the
brain. A fine account of this game,
Written by Julian Harris, son of Joel
Chandler Harris, was carried in the
Constitution. Harris said in part:
“Inferiority in weight and size lost
the game for Georgia to the big fel
lows from Virginia.” Also injured
and taken from the game was the
brilliant Georgia back, Tichenor, who
had formerly played for Auburn
against Georgia. 'He recovered. The
legislature was about to end foot
ball in Georgia when Mrs. Gammon,
mother of student Gammon, wrote
to Governor Atkinson of Georgia and
other officials. She expressed the
belief that Von Gammon would have
desired that football continue. There
fore, she desired that it continue.
Her wishes were followed. The Gov
ernor vetoed the bill. At the Uni
versity of Georgia a plaque in mem
ory of Von Gammon may be seen.
Upon the death of Gammon the 1897
season was spiritually over in the
Deep South; hut the game of football
would not die. The Southern Inter
collegiate Athleic Association was
started in the 1890 s and was the fore
runner of both the Southern and
Southeastern Conferences of today.
Among players of the 1890 s still
living are several distinguished Geor
gians. Included are: Hatton Lovejoy,
of LaGrange. Walter Cothran, of
Rome, Judge E. E. Pomeroy of Ful
ton County Superior Court, and Fred
Morris, of Marietta. Alfred O. Hal-*
sey, of Charleston, South Carolina,
remains from the 1892 Georgia team.
There are additional living veterans
of these early years of southern foot
ball.
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EXICITED ANIMALS DON’T
BLEED
At the time of killing a hog, the
animal should not 'be unduly ex
cited. Badly excited animals do not
bl-eed out thoroughly. Consequent
ly, the meat is likely to be bloody.
Such meat looks bad and spoils easi
ly-
VETERINARY STUDENTS
The University of Georgia School
of Veterinary Medicine, a regional
। school, trains students from Georgia,
! North Carolina, Virginia and Mary
land.
OFF-CAMPUS CLASSES
A total of 1121 Georgians are en
rolled for courses at the University
of Georgia’s six off-campus teaching
centers. Thousands more are en
rolled for correspondence courses.
DAIRY COURSES
Two dairy short courses will be
held at the University in January—
cottage cheese manufacture, January
16-17, and dairy production, Jan
uary 24-25.
Rich R. And
P. 0. Land Say:
P. O. I bet you can’t find any jobs ;
you can do this kind of weather on I
your soil conservation work. Come ■
on and go hunting with us. You can
cut that wood next week.
Rich R. I would like to go hunt
ing with you and your boys some
day. But, we are too busy today.
We are cutting our winter wood. I'
am helping the boys with their fores- .
try project. They are learning how •
to do selective cutting as we get our
winter wood. Let me show you what
I mean. Look down this way ;
through the woods. See how much
better it looks than the other way
toward the top of the hill?
P. O. Is that what you call se
lective cutting. The boys were try
ing to tell me what the county agent
said about that at the 4-H meeting
last week. I’ll say it looks better,
and those crooked trees make just ‘
as good wood as the straight ones
would, and that dead wood you are
cutting will be fine along with the '
green wood.
Rich R. Yes, you see we are im- ।
proving our woods and getting good
fire wood at the same time. I have
been doing this for several years.
The objection to this system is, I
get along too slow improving my
woods because I don’t like to cut
more wood than I can use.
ADVANTAGES OF SILAGE
More livestock feed can be stored
as silage in less space at less cost than
and feed. There is little or no waste
in feeding, and it produces feed in
surance to be used when needed, as
during cold spells this winter.
। CLASSIFIED ADS I
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FOR SALE — Dynamite caps and
fuses. Ralph L. Brown, Mcßae,
Ga. 29-ts. i
NEED MORE MONEY TO LIVE ON?
Increase your weekly income S2O
to $25 or more in spare time. Sup
ply Rawleigh Products to consum- j
ers nearby. Also openings for full
time Dealers. Write Rawleigh’s, ■
Dept. GAA-1120-DD, Memphis,
Tenn. 35-ltpd.
IOR SALE—Five room log house
panel ceiled with 8 and 12 inch
boards, four acres of land. Part
in wood land, other garden and
chicken yard. A genuine bargain.
For full information see or write
W. O. Purser, Alamo, Ga. 34-ts.
Symptoms of Distress Arising from
STOMACH ULCERS
■>uc to EXCESS ACID i
QUICK RELIEF OR NO COST
Over four million bottles of the Willard
Treatment have been sold for relief of
symptoms of distress arising from Stomach
and Duodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acsd—
Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach,
Gassiness, Heartburn, Sleeplessness, etc.,
due to Excess Acid. Ask for “Willard's
Message” which fully explains this remark
able home treatment — free —at
PEEBLES PHARMACY, Alamo, Ga.
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
TAKE NOTICE that there will be
introduced and pressed for passage 1
in the 1951 regular session of the
General Assembly of Georgia a bill
to amend Section 5 of the Act of the
General Assembly creating and pro
viding for the office of Tax Com- ;
missioner of said County of Wheeler,
so as to strike therefrom the last ;
clause thereof providing “the said
Tax Commissioner, out of said salary,
shall pay whatever office help that .
may be necessary for him,” and to I
provide that said Tax Commissioner
may, if he deems it necessary to the
proper and efficient performance of
the duties of his office, employ a
clerk or assistant; that the salary of
such clerk or assistant shall be fixed I
by the Commissioner of Roads and
Revenues of said County, up to but I
not exceeding one hundred dollars
per month, and the same shall be
paid monthly from the treasury of 1
said County.
This 11 day of December, 1950.
C. M. JORDAN JR.,
Representative of Wheeler
32-3 t. County Georgia.
When You’re Sick
See Your Doctor
When You Need
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See Your Lawyer
When You Need
INSURANCE |
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Insurance Counselor
Jno. S. Stamps & Son
McRAE, GA.
I Three to seven acres of the avrage
| Georgia pasture are required to c’arry
I one mature cow, though some pas
tures have been improved to carry
| one caw per acre.
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Friday, January 5, 1951
The practice of grazing cows on
small grains or crimson clover, and
taking them off early .enough for the
grain or seed to mature is becoming
j popular.