The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
GREAr oUARTERBACKs.
EckersaH of Chicago Firs, But There
Are Others.

Are Others.
New York. Nov. 29.-This years crop
of quarter backs is just about the best
on record at any one time.
Collectively, the bunch now before
the public has never been excelIed and
the best man. needless to state, is Eek
ersan, of the Chicago university team
His equal as quarter back has proba-
bly, never been seen. In the first place,
he is one of the college sprinteTs, and
is credited with record of ten seconds
for a hundred He is also one of the
best baseball players in the college.
Perfectly Qualified.
Naturally he Is qualified for quarter
back, assuming he has the requisite
nerve, and as he has twice made Wal
ter Camps AII-American team he pro-
babbly has. EckerSal puntS so yards sew
eral times in every game and is one of
the best drop kickers in the business.
He alone won the Chicago Wisconsin
game a couple of weeks ago with a
drop kick for a goal from the field, the
score being 4 to for Chicago.
In a broken field, he is also unexcell-
ed. In the game with Wisconsin last
year he caught a kickoff on his five
yard line and ran the remaining 100
yards for a touchdown through the en-
tire Badger team. This years Chicago
Michigan game in Chicago on Thanks
giving Day will be a good tryout for
Eckersal.
A Battle of Quarters.
He win not, however, be the only
quarter back in. the game. Probably
the next best quarter in the west is
the Michigan captain, NOrthrup.
He is a lightning player, runs his
team at its well known fast clip with
rare judgment and IS also wonder in
a broken field. Yost has pronounced
Northrup the best quarter he has ever
had, and when it is recalled that but
two years ago he had Weeks, this is
saying a great deal
But we needn't go all the way to
Ann ATbor or Chicago to find good,
aye, high-class. quarter backs. Right
around here the woods are full of them.
Jones Is a Star.
Tad Jones, the Yale freshman.
needs no odds from any Of them. We
only saw about five minutes of Jones
in the Columbia game last Saturday.
But we did see what a star Hutchinson,
the other Yale quarter, is, did we not2
Hutch played a remarkably fine game,
and that So score was largely due to
his headwork in running off plays just
where Columbia wasn't. Well, Jones is
even better than he.
But Eddie Collins, who has finally
found his way to the Columbia eleven,
is also so good that most of US Won
dered last Saturday why it has taken
Morley so long to sidetrack Donavan.
If there was a hero on Columbia's
swamped team Saturday, Collins was
certainly it.
Ills putting GAUilC AeA0 Il ACcNAAC "
the game, and that he caught punt af-
ter punt from Veeder, Boone and Wy
lie, knowing each time that he was IN
for an awful bump from both Chevlin
and Gates, is even more to his credit:
His gamenesS and staying qualities
are best evidenced by the fact that just
before the game ended, tired as he was,
he did eide the Yale ends on one catch
and came galloping up the field for p
yards
Shattl1el of Amherst. is another
quarter back whom New Workers have
had a good chance to see do some hne
work It may be recalled that he did
not miss a single punt against Column
bfa, and most of them he ran back for
good gains.
He also kicked we'll himself. including
goal from the field. On q Yale or
Harvard team Shattuck would make
great rep.
Another Indian Wonder.
Mt Pleasant, the Carlisle Indian, is
another quarter who has startled the
east a few this fall
His work in the Harvard game last
Saturday was a revelation to the Cam
bridge men. He ran one kick back
| about so yards, making a touchdown
possible, and accounted for 1nnumera-
BILE gains one end runs.
Mt. Pleasant is an all-arOund athlete,
having won the broad lump at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania relay meet last
spring, besides playing on the Carlisle
nine.
Carlisle is famous for her quarter
backs. Just a few years ago Hudson
was much in the public eye with his
phenomenal drop kicking, and he was
/ succeeded by Johnson, another star,
who is now doing great work on the
Northwestern university team
Swarthmore Has One.
Crowen. of Swarthmore, is still an
| other quarter who is the terror of all
the big teams in the east. Whenever
Swarthmore gets by midfield there is
| likely to be a goal kicked from the field
/ by Crowen.
! Not far behind him in this depart
lment of the game is Shuster, of Lafay-
cite. He is another phenOm with the
/ toe but is evidently not as good a foot
/ ball player as the rest of the above
group, for I notice he has lately been
/ supplanted-
Drop kicking is not the only thing
necessary for a quarter. If it was,
! Shuttle would have a job on the Column
/ bia team. And because it isn't, Shus-
ter didn't play on the Lafayette eleven
against Penn last Saturday.
This great rally by the quarter backs
is fine thing for the game, and COM
ing Just this year will probably do a
great deal to offset the howl against
the game by those elamoring for open
play.
Lincoln to Play Benton Harbor.
Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 29.-Negotia-
lions have been completed providing