The Washington herald., 1906-12-03
STARS ON GRIDIRON
Football Scientists Classify
Best Men of Season.
TEAM SELECTED
Second Team said to BE Almost as
Good as First, and Game Between
Them Would Re SIashing Fray.
Yale Leads In Rank, with PennsyI-
ynnia State nt the Bottom.

New York, Dec. 2-There is a wide field
this season from which to choose an all
Eastern football team. More tz1Tns than
usual contain players whose work entities
them TO a place on such a team The
eleven is no sense an aIl-America eleven.
Were it an all-American eleven. at least
one Weste:ner would be chosen, Ecker
sail, of the University of Chicago, for
quarter back. for he is the best quarter
back in the country. One consideration
in the choice of an aIl-Eastern team Is
what the players have done in failing in
with and making use Of, the new ideas
of the revised game. Choices fc the first
and second all-Eastern teams is as fol-
lows:
First team-Forbes. Yale, and Wister.
Princeton. ends; Bigelow, Yale, and Drap-
er, Pennsylvania tackles; Thompson,
Cornell, and Burr Harvard, guards;
HOckenberger, Yale center; Horton. An
napolis, quarter back; Mayhew. Brown,
and Hollenback. Pennsylvania, half
backs; Wendell, Harvard. full back
Second team-Levene. Pennsylvania,
and Exendine. Carlisle. ends; Cooney,
Princeton, and Weeks, West Point,
tackles; Kersburg. Harvard, and Ziegler,
Pennsylvania. guards; Newman, Cornell,
| center, Jones, Yale, quarter back; Knox,
Yale, and Hubbard Amherst, half backs;
Sieber, Gettysburg. full back
Both Teams strong.
It would be slashing battle between
| these two teams, and no cinch for the
first choice The first named is as strong
| combination as could be got together.
/ Probably in every department the idea is
more TO get the strongest possible combi-
nation rather than to go by any one
mans form in his big games or all sea
son work
The team named would be strong in
/ kicking. rushing, the forward pass, the
on-side kick, making ground by line
plunging. when such a course is neces-
sary. in the various defensive accomp-
| lishments. and in rudimentary individual
/ skin.
How Teams Rank.
The task of ranking the teams is a
complicated affair. one on which no two
! persons will agree Among the first six
teen teams I'm the football season just
closed, ten may be ranked as follows:
/ J. Yale. PENNSYLVANIA.
/ ?. Princeton. iircn-
i g. Harvard Annapolis.
I T. Cornell ,f Point
/ s. Carlisle .ta1a state
Then theer are Sw lrth.a9re. Lafayette,
/ Syracuse. Dartmouth. Williams. and Col
/ gate, which all figure in the rvs, sixteen.
/ a curious fact came ta b. -=, sat
urday as a result of tHe rienee
meeting OF several members .. SO rules
committee in Philadelphia Friday night.
Dr. Newton. the former Pennsylvania
end. held stop watch on the plays in
E the Army-Navy game. and found that
In the first half there were just min
utes and IS seconds Of actual play. ana
in the second half minutes and 80 sec
/ onds-l3 minutes and 2S seconds in all
Ball I'm Play Only short Time.
By actual time is meant the time
when the ball was alive" II means the
tine consumed from the moment the
leather was snapped back to the moment
II was dead. Il was the time consumed
in passing the ball back and in kicking
ana rushing The rest OF the sixty nlfi-
utes this aside from the time taken out
for delays-was consumed in lining up.
in the men getting 70 their positions for
each succeeding scrimmage, and giving
/ signals.
The state Of affairs brought to light Is
no reflection on the game. The contest
was snappy, brisk. and with little time
wasted
Soldier Team Welcomed.
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