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Show Bill Alexander Seeks Unknown P lay That Once Produced 35 Yards By HENBY McLEMORE I'nlted Preaa Sports Writer ATLANTA. Ga, Oct IS (UP) Southern football notes Jotted down on the back of a road map: Sitting In the fleldhous. Coach BUI Alexander of Georgia Tech told this one: "It was back In our football depression year when w had no echolarahipe and tb team was pretty awful. W wer playing Carnegie Tech and they were beating th daylight out of us. Wa hadnt made a first down, ao I aent In a aubstltute quarterback named Tom Peeler as a sort of deaperatlon measure. In th huddle Peeler called for formation IS. We didn't have any such formation, but ths other playsrs were afraid to quasttoa Peeler for fear there was auch a play and that they had forgotten It. So they lined up and Just blocked. Peeler got the ball and went for K yarda. our only decent de-cent gain of th day." . . . Alexander Alex-ander ever ainc haa been try,ng to figure out juat what play No. t t SS waa. . . . "If It waa good for 33 yarda with that team, tt oughta be worth 100 yards now." he said. . . . Unbeaten Vanderbilt'a defense is built around four 190-pound backa Huggina. ' Hollina, Marshall Mar-shall and Plunkett. . . , Hollina and Plunkett both kick and pass left-handed. . . . But all four think right-handed, so to speak. , , . Prosperity note: L. S. U. transported 5000 students and a SOS-piece band to Houston for the game with Rice free of charge. . . . Nothing is too good for the U9.U. students. , , , Even th mascot tiger haa a 1700 cage. ... 2300 L&U atudents live in the stadium which waa built to serve also as a giant dormitory. The University of Georgia thlnka It Is certain to place at least one man on the all-America teams . . . They rata Bill Hart-mann, Hart-mann, who played such a magnificent mag-nificent game against Holy Cross, and Quinton Lumpln, center, aa tope. . . . Customers at South Carolina's home games ars amused during the half time In-. In-. termtssion by a group of selected . students doing tha "big apple." Probably th best back In the entire aouth la an unknown young man at little Davidson college In North Carolina. . . . Hia name Is Teeney" Latterly and there Isn't anything he can't do with those 16S pounds of his. . . . And when the time comes to pick tha outstanding playera of the year It wouldn't be a bad Idea to mention men-tion "Tiger" Mayberry. captain and halfback of Florida's team. . . . Given a stronger eleven to work with and Mayberry would be in the headlines Saturday after Saturday. |