New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-28
ON THE GRIDlRoN.
IN ALL-AMERICA TEAM
Yale Gets FiUe PIaees-4 SsaS0"
Remarkably Lacking in Stars

,ar+ u, The direction of one stNie % - -,
o,a ,,e~son. however impartiaiiS ..r,oa
.4o~,,ed as to the performances "a ~ -.
,...~s ~ our best teams can me-
selections that will appear 10 e'ei' .1
-. onas possible. His own personal
I"s 'sS' .'.,u.ss regarding varying ways
certain position or his 1udg-
% P"' ...arsnce 10 the value Of one
I1-ei+t .I;+,, over another is also like
p-as-N7 into his decisions But just now
4! - rho tries 10 name the best players
- ~. eleven positions is hampered by the
- y, mass play that has so perslstently
,,.ered over the season that came TO an END on
saturday with the Arrny-Navy match at Ph4'-
a6eIphia The mass play style of game IS hostile
n individuality. Under ii each OF the several
I.,-aTs chosen to constitute the battering ram,
99-S;cb is depended upon 10 smash its way TO VIC
tory is ONLY one of a set Of coSs in the machine
S1,cb q game develops few stars. Consequently
the difficulty of naming the best players is IN
creased by the fact that few OF the WearefS o.
football uniforms loom above their Fellows OF
The gridiron. The direction which the game mas
raken in the season just ended Is suIlclenty IN
die ted bv the fact that the names OF such men
as Boomer. Hogan, Kinney. Roraback, Plekar-
ski Cooney and Stanard are the ones that nrst
reclir TO tae memory as the seasons matches
are mentally reviewed Every one or these
plavers is distinguished alone for strength and
beef and effectiveness in heaaIoIs, prute
strength rushes. 1t is, IN fact tie most monot-
orous season so far its method of play is
concerned, that the game has ever known But
We are not particularly concerned with this at
present The evils Of this development are
great and have been discussed al teLgih IN TINS
@ol,lr7r They CRY aloud for reform. But just
now glance at the work or individuals is in
order.
AS the game has been played this year it is
only natural to expect that the team that has
made, on the whole. the best showing should
be expected to furnish the most members of an
AID mill
probably be Of the opinion that Pennsylvania
would have been able to beat Yale. it seems
only fair 10 say that the Blue is, in the judg
-nent of most Observers entitled to first place.
PENNSYLVANIA had a more successful season, SO
far as games won are concerned. but she had
= much easier schedule than Yale. meeting
neither Princeton nor West Point and defeating
Harvard when the Crimson was not in such good
shape as she was the day Yale wore her down.
Beginning therefore, at the centre OF the line,
Tales pivotal player. Roraback, known 10 Yale
afect0nately as old Rory" seems the strong
est man. Throughout the season he has been
q tower of strength on the defensive ana few
indeed have been the plunges that made much
way through him, while not ilnrequentIy he
has got through an opposing line IN time 70
heap up an attack before II could get unoer
way His passing, that Indispensable requisite
Of q good centre, more important than ever now
that the centre passes directly TO the punter Tor
G kick has been almost fawless- In reviewing
The games in which Roraback has played, /
mink Of only one exception 10 this statement
Certainly 10 other centre has his clean record
IN this respect Upton. OF West Point 10 my
mind comes nearer to Rorabacks efficiency
rhau any other centre. While exceeded IN
weight and strength by almost all of the sea-
sons centres. the West Pointer is a phehom-
email. fast and active man. He is often the
man TO save the ball on a tumble or TO win II
on an error of the opposing side. While ms
speed in following up kick is almost that OF d
6rst class end. Witness his touchdown III the
game with the Navy last Saturday. His pass
ing, too is accurate and tast. YET RoraOach 6
Strength rather gives him the call for the place.
Neither Harvard nor Princeton has any claim
on this place. The poor passing OF butcher,
Parser and Parkinson would be enough TO bar
hem out were their other qualities up 10 the
mark. which they decidedly are not.
For guards. two names stand out with rather
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