Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-07
FROM The CRlDIRON
Selection Of Teams for Second Place Honors
Bngenders a Debate.
AlL-ANERlCAN ElsvESS NOW IN ORDER
Nebraska Refused Admission TO the
Big Mae Because the Body
f. Already Too big
for Comfort.

for Comfort.
No person disputes the fact OF the supre-
macy OF Yale in the eastern foot ball field.
allotment OF places to the other
elevens is a matter Of much difficulty and
one In which there are many opinions. A
study Of the several authorities leads one
to the belief that after Yale comes Prince
ton. Some members of the Yale team say
that Harvard was stronger than Princeton,
but the Tigers made the best showing
against Yale. They did not gain as much
ground as Harvard, but they scored, their
defence was more stubboruly sustained ana
they kept Yale's total down much lower
than did Harvard. Only two touchdowns
were made in the entire season against
Princeton, while eight we're made against
Harvard. one each by Bowdoin, Wesleyan,
West Point and Dartmouth and four by
Yale. So long as the teams did not meet
to test their relative strength the results
indicate that PTinceton's defensive strength
more than Offset Harvard's offensive SUI
periority. Harvard ranks third and West
Point fourth, Harvard having beaten West
Point. Had the army met Princeton there
would have been a better means Of COM
pairing Princeton and Harvard, and 1t is by
no means sure that Princeton would have
beaten the soldiers. In the Annapolis
game the West Point attack was the most
consistently strong Of any teams except
Yale's. Yale's defence was the only one
encountered by West Point that prevented
sustained gains. Pennsylvania deserves to
rank fifth on account of its stiff game
against Harvard and the brace which beat
Cornell. 1t is true that the Quakers were
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Brown, but the form they displayed on
Thanksgiving day would have almost GER
tainly carried them successfully through
the earlier defeats.
The selection OF an all-eastern team is a
difficult matter and one which calls out
many differences of opinion. The foot ball
expert of the New York Sun selects the
two following elevens for first and second
ability:
First Team-shevlin. Yale, and Bowditch,
Harvard, ends; Hogan, Yale, and Kinney,
Yale, tackles; Glass, Yale, and Dewitt,
Princeton, guards; Holt, Yale, center;
Rockwell Yale, quarter3aek; Shadwlck.
Second T~eam-Davis, Princeton, and
Metzger, Pennsylvania ends; Graves, West
Yale, and Warner, Cornell, guards; Nc
Cabe, pennsylvania, center; DAILY, west
Point, qu9rterback; Metealf Yale, and
Pennsylvania, fullback.
Nebraska was turned down at the confer
ence Of the Big Nine in Chicago November
29 and no reason was given for their refusal
to admit the Cornhuskers to the associa-
tion. Notre Dame was also refused fellow
ship. The reason for this action is easily
apparent, however, in the number OF teams
already In the conference. The Big Nine
is unwieldy and the addition of two more
elevens would make 1t cumbrous.
The coaches and student and faculty man
ayers Of the college teams were nearly all
present at the meeting to talk over next
years playing dates. Representatives of
smaller schools worked for dates with the
more important ones, but little could be
done because the big contests had not yet
been arranged. The Wisconsin, Chicago and
Minnesota contests have not been determ-
lned upon and only propositions from small
teams have been considered by these three.
Coach Stays and Manager Butterworth and
George HUFF OF Illinois were besieged by
Manager Engle and Coach Mclean of Knox,
who we're trying to get games with Chi
cago, Illinois and Wisconsin. Chicago ar
ranged to meet Illinois on Marshall field
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braska and Knox, but made no definite
agreement. According to Hun, Illinois will
have practically the same schedule next
year as this, as It's agreements are for two
years. It will play Indiana, Perdue, Iowa
Northwestern, Chicago and Minnesota.
Coach Mclean says Knox will not meet
Nebraska unless the Cornhuskers wish to
come east. Knox would prefer a game
with Iowa. Nebraska hopes to play Min.
nesota in Lincoln next year, as it has gone
to Minneapolis the last two seasons.
For an all western foot ball team Carl NJ
Green makes the following selection:
Enthusiastically of Michigan.
Halfbacks-Heston of Michigan, Van Val
Q1arterback-WeeEs of Michigan Ccap
Center-Ellsworth OF Chicago.
Guards-Flynn of Minnesota, McGugin o
Tackles-Maddock of Michigan, Farr o
Chicago.
.Ends-Cook of Illinois, Abbott of wiscon
sin.
Observation-Disclosures of Chicago, Grave
of Michigan.
Mr.. Green says; THE selection Of an all
western foot ball team is always a delicate
matter, and this season with it's many star
proves no exception to the rule. Team
work as exemplihed by the Michigan cham
pions Is, OF course, the essential elemen
In foot ball success, and any ~aIl-star clever
is essentially a paper" team. However
granting that Yost's great team play eoull
be infused into the men named above, I be
lieve that Il would make the most formid
able aggregation which the west could pro
duce.
THE season just closed has perhap
brought out more great players than an
other recent year, and in several position
It is the superabundance OF material whic
makes the selection Of the real leader
dificult.
Weeks Of Michigan at quarterback