The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-07
SPORTING NEWS.
No Good Football Players In the
Western Elevens.
According to the Eastern News.
paper Gridiron Critics.
IGNORETHETWO STARS
HestOn and Eckersall Not
Worthy ola Mention.
Nothing But an East vs.. West
Match Will Tell.

Chicago. Dec. THE An-Western
teams have been selected in large
quantities by the critics and authori
ties Of this section of the nation. and
the last crop of All-American selections
is just beginning to come to light in
the eastern papers. In the east they
do not select sectional teams, but term
them Al-Amerfcan with the utmost
confidence that they have canvassed
all the available material, and with
the utmost Indifference to the feelings
OF the loyal supporters of the undoubt-
edly meritorious players of the elevens
of the middle western colleges.
Last year Walter Camp picked Hes
ton as one of his All-American stars,
and the Atlantic seaboard gasped in
astonishment and indignation, to say
nothing of pity, for the father of Amer
lean football who could overlook the
halves of Yale, Princeton, Harvard and
Penn and then pick a curly headed man
from Michigan.
The west felt differently. cat last"
was the general exclamation, 1--WE are
now going to be recognized, since Wal
ter Camp has taken US up"
But what will Camp do this year?
Since the undoubted authority on the
college game picked Heston last year,
will he not repeat this year, when Hes
tons performances were even more
brilliant, and his ground gaining ability
of an even more pronounced character?
The general hope inclines this way,
and yet
Caspar Whitney, the apostolic head
of a self founded and somewhat gro
teSQue school of purity in amateur ath-
letics, will likely discard the Michigan
captain without a seconds hesitation,
because he doubtless believes the entire
Wolverine team has been paid for and
delivered. The actual merits of the
some years ago by this eminent au-
thority, and, so far as he is concerned,
there is no recourse.
Here are a few of the latest pickings
on "Al1-American'' elevens for the past
season:
PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERI-
CAN.
Shevlin, Yale, left end.
Hogan, Yale, left tackle.
Piekarski, Penn. left guard.
ROraback, Yale, center.
Kinney. Yale, right guard.
Bloomer, Yale, right tackle.
Weede, Penn, right end.
Stevenson, Penn, quarter back.
Reynolds. Penn, left half back.
Hurley, Harvard, right half back.
Smith, Penn, full back.
The American adds: "On1y the most
jaundiced of critics can leave off Rey-
nolds and Piekarski, and the man who
tries to ignore Stevenson and Smith
will make himself ridiculous.
NEW YORK SUN.
Shevlin, Yale, and Weede, Pennsyl-
vania, ends: Hogan, Yale, and Cooney,
Princeton, tackles; Trip, Yale, and
Piekarski, Pennsylvania, guards; Tip
ton, West Point, center; Rockwell, Yale,
quarter back; Hoyt, Yale, and Hurley,
Harvard, half backs; Smith, Pennsyl-
vania, full back.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.
Shevlin, Yale. left end.
Cooney, Princeton, left tackle.
Pi0EarSki. Pennsylvania left cr11ard
Roraback, Yale, center.
Trip. Yale, right guard
Hogan, Yale, right tackle.
Neal, Yale, right end.
Stevenson, Pennsylvania, quarter
back.
Hurley, Harvard, left half back.
Smith, Pennsylvania, full back.
BOSTON HERALD.
Shevlin, Yale, left end
Cooney, Princeton, left tackle.
Piekarski. Pennsylvania, left guard.
Upton. West Point, center.
Gilman, Dartmouth, right guard
Hogan, Yale, right tackle.
Butkiewiez. Pennsylvania, right end.
Rockwell, Yale, quarter back.
Reynolds, Pennsylvania, left half
back.
Hurley, Harvard, right half back
Smith, Pennsylvania, full back.
NEW YORK PRESS.
Shevlin, Yale, left end.
Cooney, Princeton, left tackle.
Piekarski, Pennsylvania, left guard.
Upton, West Point, center.
Short, Princeton, right guard.
Hogan, Yale, right tackle.
Hammond, West Point, right end.
Stevenson, Pennsylvania, quarter
Hoyt, Yale, left half back.