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Cavalcade Os Georgia
THE STORY OF FOOTBALL IN GEORGIA
Part 2-The “Golden Tornado” Begins To Roar
(Historical release by of nee of Geor
gia Department of State, Ben
W. Fortson Jr.)
BY GUS BERND
Historical Assistant, Office of
Secretary of State
Football in the Deep South be
tween the years 1900 and 1919 is:
highlighted by the rise of football
at Georgia Tech under the leader
ship of John W. Heisman, who had
coached at Auburn and Clemson be
fore coming to Tech in 1904. Heis
man, a pioneer in the development of
the game, may be considered the
South’s first great coach. The year
1902 marked the beginning of the
end of mass style of play. The for
ward pass arrived in 1906. The di
vision of the game into quarters came
about in 1910. The famous Georgia
Tech shift was introduced by Heis
man.
Tech lacked a victory over Geor
gia after 1893 until 1904. Tech then
'beat Georgia five straight times
1904-09. There was no Tech-Georgia
game in 1908. It was 1906 before
Tech was able to defeat Auburn and
it was 1915-18 before Tech was able
to do it consecutively. Virginia,
North Carolina, Clemson, Vander- '
bilt, Auburn, and Sewanee domi
nated at various times between 1899
and 1910. Alabama and Tennessee
had not yet arrived. When Ameri
ca entered World War I, Georgia I
Tech was on top in Southern foot-
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. ball. Georgia's years in the sun
prior to the War were 1910-13 when
the great Rdbert L. (Bob) WcWhor
ter sparked the team. Georgia did
not play in ’l7 and 'lB.
The Tech-Georgia game of 1904 is
remembered for the very unusual
• way in which Tech triumphed. The
game was played on the old South
. ern League baseball field at Piedmont
Park. Here occurred the famous ball
. । over-the-fence play. With the score
■ 6-6. Sullivan of Georgia sought to
kick out from behind his goal line.
The goal posts were then on the line.
■ Fate was unkind and the ball hit the
crossbar and bounded back over a
high fence which enclosed the play
ing field. After a wild scramble at
the fence, “Red” Wilson of Tech got
over and recovered the ball from the
briars and bushes. Major Butler, the
referee, who had previously played
in a Georgia backfield, declared
touchdown for Tech. Such a play
could not occur under present-day
rules which confine the playing area
behind the goals to a specific zone
marked on the field. The final score
was 23—6 in favor of Tech.
An interesting story explains the
coming of Coach Alex Cunningham
i and his star half back McWhorter to
Athens in 1910. Dr. S. V. (Old Doc)
Sanford signed up a coach and team
for Georgia on the back of an en
velope o ne day at the old Seaboard
। Railway Station in Athens. Alex’s
Gordon baseball team had just.
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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, Alamo, Ga.
swamped Georgia 11-0 and was leav
ing town. Dr. Sanford told Cun
ningham he wanted him to come to
the University and coach football.
The salary 7 was named and agree
ment soon reached. Doc also pointed
L out that he would be menje than hap
( py if the Gordon players continued
. their college careers at Georgia.
i Bob McWhorter was tutored that
summer so that he could matriculate
at Athens with his coach. It seems
। that he missed only part of one game
during fois four year University foot
ball career. He was All-Southern at J
Georgia each of the four.years; aided
in defeating Tech and Alabama four
times each. But he was left off of
, Walter Camp’s All-Americans. Camp
mrely honored a Southern player in
those days.
Ti e success of this Georgia ma
neuver with Gordon is quite illus- (
trative of a principal reason for the j
great interest of football enthusiasts
m the development of high schools
and prep schools in the South.
The coming of Cunningham and
McWhorter ended a football famine
at Georgia which had lasted with
but few interruptions since the de
parture of “Pop” Warner. Cunning
ham and McWhorter & Company
were like manna from heaven to
Georgia.
Georgia’s best year during the
1900-1919 span was 1911 with seven
vistories, one loss, and one tie. The
loss was 17-0 to a strong Vanderbilt
team. There was a scoreless tie with
Auburn. The 1912 season saw only a
loss to Vandy and a tie with Sewanee
to mar the record. During the Mc-
Whorter era of 1910-13 'Georgia won
26 games, lost six and tied four;
rolled up 850 points to 208 for all
opposition. The one really black day
during this period of Georgia great
ness was October 19, 1912 when
Vandy destroyed Georgia and (Mc-
Whorter 46-0 on a muddy field in
Atlanta.
Georgia Tech during the 1915-18
span went through 33 consecutive
games without defeat. 18 straight
victories were included. Tech rolled
up 1605 points to only 93 for opposi
tion. Following Tech’s 222-0 rout of
Cumberland in 1916, in abbreviated
quarters, the name “Golden Torna
do” was applied. This still remains
the highest score of a football game.
In 1917, the year of the great cham
pionship, Tech beat Penn 41-0; Wash
ington & Lee 63-0; Vandy 83-0; and
Carlisle 98-0; blanked Wake Forest
33-0 and Furman 25-0 in the same
afternoon. Everett Strupper and Joe
Guyon stood out in that immortal
backfield. In 19 18 Walter Camp
placed Tech's center, “Bum” Day,
who later played at Georgia, on his
All-American team. Backs Albert
Hill, Tommy Spence, D. I. “Red” Bar
ron, Judy Harlan, and “Buck” Flow
ms and linemen Bill Fincher and
“Big Six” Carpenter were some of
the others who contributed to the
glorious story under Heisman at
Tech. In 1920 Flowers kicked 47
conversions.
Dramatic tricks and spectacular in
dividual performances frequently
dominated the games.
in 1903 Harry W’oodruff of Georgia
ran an Auburn field goal attempt
■ back for a touchdown.
Bob McWhorter once made a 110
। yard touchdown run that nobody
। saw. Georgia was playing Sewanee
! up on the mountain in Tennessee. A
! dense cloud descended. Bob got the
La'll behind his own. goal line and
wasn’t seen again until he was stand
ing behind the Sewanee goal.
In 1910 “Kid” 'Woodruff faked a
pass and threw his helmet down the
held and trotted to a touchdown
against Sewanee.
The late “War Eagle” Ketron, ear
lier a Georgia football great, once
tackled the Tech time keeper and sat
on him in order to insure a last min
ute Georgia touchdown in case their
watches were apart.
In 1912 Georgia received the open
ing kickoff from Alabama with only
10 men in uniform; then threw a
long forward pass to a player in
civilian clothes who was sitting just
inside the field to make the catch.
Alabama was stunned and pande
monium broke loose. Judge Frank
Foley intervened so the game could
continue.
In 1916 Auburn beat Georgia 3-0
wlpen Moon Ducote used a helmet as
a tee in kicking a field goal. Tiiis
brought a big squawk from Georgia
and a change in the rules to make
such illegal in future games.
The late W. A. “Bill” Alexander,
the late Marion Smith, L. W. “Chip-’
Robert, Jr., Judge Virlyn Moore,
General Sandy Beaver, George “Kid"
Woodruff and other later day lead
ers in Georgia life, played for Tech
or Georgia during their college years.
Bob McWhorter was Mayor of .Ath
ens and still teaches at the Univer
sity’s law school. A broken ankle
ended the football career of the late
Eugene Talmadge.
E. C. Westbrook, Extension Serv
ice agronomist, names three things
farmers should do to make high yields
of cotton: 1 Liberal use of a well
balanced fertilizer. 2. Follow a rec
ommended program for control of
cotton instects. and 3, obtain good
stands.
H Dream of
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ESM JOHN ROWLEY
'T'HEY were sitting on a bench in ,
the park, the man and the wom
an, and the sun, shining through the
pattern of leaves and branches
above them, formed a network of
light and shadows almost like some
gossamer fairy lace.
The woman was about thirty-three i
or four, blonde with dimples, and .
a wide, good humored mouth. The
man, who was about the same age,
dark with good features and graying (
hair, leaned towards her.
"Do you remember, jean, the first time 1
( we kissed?" he asked tenderly. (
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The girl laughed a little and there .
was a faint haze back of her eyes.
“How could I forget,” she said. “We I c
were so young . . . and shy! I t
didn’t know what I would say if you a
asked me . . . and I was on pins I
and needles for fear you wouldn't.
They were good days, George. Hap- ,
py days.”
George reached over and patted
her hand. “They were,” he said.
“They were won
derful days and
I was so much
in love with you.
... It spoiled my
appetite! To me
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you were the most beautiful thing
ever come down to earth.” He
laughed, his voice deep and reso
nant. “And you’re still pretty nice!”
They were silent for a moment, each
thinking the thoughts that these
memories brought up. Finally the
man laughed again. “Do you re
member our last high school
dance?”
The man, lost in thought, gazed
out over the green expanse of the
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“Well, goodby, Jean,” he said.
park. Far off he could see tall
buildings rising out of a sea of bil
lowy green, but he wasn’t seeing
any of that. Instead he was seeing
a tali, old fashioned building in a
small town a long way from the city.
There was a blare of music com
ing from the building . . dance
music, a number popular at the
time. He saw couples getting out
of cars and some arriving on foot.
Inside, the huge door of what was
the gymnasium swelled and heaved
with couples packed close together.
He remembered the laughter and
the music and something came into
his throat and he wanted to cry. The
woman sensed it too and she put a
slender, graceful hand on his arm.
“Do you remember that dance.
. . . our graduation dance? I can
see you now. You had on a light
blue evening gown that came all the
way to the floor and you wore a
corsage of some kind of white flow
ers. The light in your hair made it
look all gold and you were the most
beautiful creature in the world.”
She laughed, entering into the
spirit of the thing. “And Mr. Weeks,
the assistant principal, asked me to
dance and I let him have one dance
. . . after all, he was the assistant
principal.”
“ AND after the dance,” he went
on. “The rest of the crowd
went down to eat, but you and I
went to the little lunch counter
around the corner and had some
coffee and afterwards we walked
home. It was exactly three blocks
away. ... I think I can remember
every step . . . every depression in
the sidewalk. And when we got to
your house we stood on the steps a
long time, not saying anything, just
looking at the night . . . and every
thing was golden around us.”
He paused for a moment, staring
straight ahead. "And then you said
you had to go in . . . and you kissed
me. . . .” He laughed again and
turned to look at the woman beside
him. “I floated home on a cloud
that night!”
She smiled and they sat there
silent, for a time, contemplating the
memories they had conjured up out
of the past.
At last they got up and the mar
looked at the woman beside him
and smiled.
"Well, goodby, jean," he said. "It wa f
wonderful seeing you again, hut I’ll ham J
to be running along now. I’m supposec ?
to meet my wife in front of the Metro
politan in about 10 minutes.” J
She looked at her watch ant $
gasped. “Me, too,” she exclaimed
“Why, it’s almost five o’clock anc S
I haven’t finished my shopping yet ?
I’m afraid my husband's supper wil 5
be late tonight. Good-by!” ?
They hurried off across the pari J
. in opposite directions! s
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CITATION, DISMISSION FROM
ADMINISTRATION
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
TO AL LWHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Whereas, L. W. Kent, Administra
tor of J. H .Kent, represents >to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully
administered J. H. Kent estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned, kindred and credi
tors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said Administrator should not
be discharged from his administra
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i 1951.
: 36-4 L D. N. ACHORD Ordinary
i CITATION. LEAVE TO SEI.L
. GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that (Mrs.
I Mattie ’Watson as administrator #of
ivirs. Catherine I. Baldwin, deceased,
' : having applied to me by petition for
■ leave to sell real estate of said Mrs.
■ i Catherine I. Baldwin, deceased, and
! i that an order was made thereon' at
, the January term 1951 for citation;
. i and that citation issue; all heirs at
’ ; law and creditors of the said Mrs.
; Catherine I. Baldwin, deceasde, will
' take notice that I will pass upon said
; application at the February .term,
1951, of the Court of Ordinary of
Wheeler County; and that unless
i cause is shown to the contrary at
said time said leave will be granted.
This the 2nd. day of January 1951.
! 36-4 t. D, N. ACHORD Ordinary
CITATION. LEAVE TO SELL
GEORGIA, Wheeler County.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that Mrs.
Mattie Watson as administrator of
E. Y. Baldwin, deceased, having ap
plied to me by petition for leave to
sell real estate of said E. Y. Baldwin,
deceased, and that an order was made
thereon at the January term 1951 for
■ citation; and that citation issue; all
: heirs at law and creditors of the said
E. Y. Baldwin, deceased, will take
, notice that I will pass upon said ap
; plication at the February term, 1951,
j of the Court of Ordinary of Wheel
. er County; and that unless cause is
i shown to the contrary at said time
j said leave will be granted.
This the 2nd. day of January, 1951.
36-4 t. D. N, ACHORD Ordinary
Suit for Divorce in Superior Court
। of Wheeler County, filed to October
! term. 1950.
Mrs. Henry Leverette vs. Henry
: Leverette.
■ To Henry Leverette, Defendant in
! said matter:
You are hereby commanded to be
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of Wheeler County,
' Georgia, to answer the complaint of
I the plaintiff, mentioned in the cap
i lion in. her suit against you for di
| vorce.
Witness the Honorable Eschol
| Graham, judge of said court.
This 13 day of January, 1951.
MACKIE SIMPSON, Clerk
Superior Court Wheeler
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