The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
HONOR FOR MINNESOTA
FOUR GOPHER FOOTBALL PLAY
ERs PLACED ON WALTER
CAMPS ALL-ANIERICAN TEAMS.

The broader view which eastern
football critics are taking is shown
by Walter Camps selection of three
All-American teams for the season of
1908. One western player (Heston)
gets place on the first eleven. two
on the second and seven on the third
In other words Camp concludes that
Of the thirty-three best players in
the country, ten belong to middle west
teams.
Altho Michigan is the only team to
get man on the first eleven. Minne-
sofa has her full share Of the hons
OrS. Schacht and Strathern are
placed on the second team, and Har-
ris and Rogers on the third, giving
Minnesota four players in all. Michi-
gan has one man on the first and
three (Maddock, Redden and Graver)
on the third. Bertke, the Wisconsin
fullback, are put on the third team.
Since 1889 only one western man,
(Herschberger Of Chicago in 1889 has
been put on the All-American team
by Camp, and seldom has q westerner
been given a place on the second or
third teams. While Camp has by no
means given the west more than it
deserves this season. his selection in
dicates that eastern men are coming
to realize the fact that Michigan,
Minnesota, Chicago and Wisconsin
are little if any behind Yale, Prince
ton, Harvard and Columbia in playing
strength. Camps selection follows:
First Team-Ends Henry of Princeton and
Rafferty, of Yale; tackles, Hogan of Yale and
knowlton of Harvard; guard Dewitt of Prince
| ton and A. Marshall Of Harvard; center Hooper
of Dartmouth; quarter, johnson Of Carlisle; half
backs. Heston Of Michigan and Kafer Of Prince
ton; fullback, Smith of Columbia.
Second Team-EndS, Davis of Princeton and
shevlin of Yale; tackles, schacht Of Minnesota
and Thorpe of Columbia; guards Riley of West.
Point and Gilman of Dartmouth; center strath-
ern OF Minnesota; quarter, Whitman of Dart
me 1T HchSlS of aaryara and Mitch
Third Ieam-Ends, Redden Of Michigan and
Rogers Of Minnesota; tackles, Turner of Dart
of Wisconsin and Piekarskii Of Pennsylvania;
senter Bruce Of Columbia; quarter Harris Of
Standard of Holy Gross; fullback, Salmon of
| Notre Dame.
With the exception of Graver and
Bertke, Camps western selections are
| characterized by good judgment.
Sherman r. Duffy of the Illustrated
! Sporting News selects the following
first and second all-western teams,
giving Minnesota four men on the first
and three on the second:
Maddox Michigan; guard, Rothgeb, Illinois;
center, strathern, Minnesota; guard Bertke.
Wisconsin: tackle, Schacht, Minnesota; end, Red
| den sMichigan; quarterback, Harris Minnesota
| halfback, Heston Michigan; halfback, Irstield
Minnesota; fuflback, Catlin, Chicago. '-.,.
l. Second Eleven-EndS, Rogers, Minnesota, Speik.
| Chicago; tackles, Webster, Minnesota, Curtis
NIichigan guards, Thorpe, Minnesota, Phillips,
| Northwestern; center, Gregory, Michigan; quar-
| terback, Eckersall. Chicago; halfbacks, Schnur,
Chicago. Clevenger, Indiana; fullback, Wander
| boom, Wisconsin. :" =
| The University Of Wisconsin and
! the University of Illinois are the first
| Of the conference colleagues to as
! sure superintendent of Schools E. G.
Cooley of Chicago that they are with
him in his fight for the publication
of high school athletics, and espec-
| tally for the suppression of the evil
of PROSECUTING of high school boys by
the universities for athletic purposes.
Mr.. Cooley said yesterday that both of
these institutions had assured him of
| their sympathy and had promised
him their cooperation in his efforts.
The ACTION of~these two big state <uni-
versities is taken as indicative Of a
change in the right direction and it is
thought that the other institutions
Of the big nine will not be slow to
follow the example set by the Madison
and Champaign schools. --~'----.~.--.--.'5 -