The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-14
ONLY TWO MEN YET PICKED BY ALL
CRITICS FOR IMAGINARY BEST ELEVEN

NEW YORK. Dec. 14.-Now that the
football season has come to its wind
up in blaze Of glory with the splen-
did clash Of the warriors Of the army
and navy at Philadelphia, the experts
are busily engaged all over again on
paper. The open season for all-Ameri-
can and all-eastern elevens is now on
in earnest, and every day brings one
or more lineups from some quarter. OF
| teams is bootless, and, for the most
part, is frankly recognized in that
| light by the sharps themselves in in
Producing their respective elevens to
the gridirons of imagination. Still the
| discussion brought out by the forma-
ton of the different supposititious elev-
ems is interesting and gives a pretty
fair line on the men who have done the
best individual work on the important
elevens during the fall.
1t will be some time before Mr..
| Camp gets his several teams together,
| lie is forced to content itself with the
lesser sharps, mostly the football writ
ers of the leading eastern newspapers.
All these men have seen most Of the
really important games played during
the season by the big university elev-
ems, their testimony as to the men
! whose playing has stood out particu-
| larly in these contests is worth accept
! ing, and is of considerable value as
giving a line on the probabilities as to
some of the positions on the Camp
elevens to come later.
Star Players Of the East.
There are several players on eastern
elevens VINO appear in practically all
the imaginary star elevens so far made
up, and the chances are that in ma
| jority of cases, possibly in nearly all,
they will be found as members Of tn..
/ teams to be created by the famous
Yale expert when he gets down to Sc
rious work.
Forbes of Yale and W1ster Of Prince
ton are ends on every one of the five
elevens made up by the experts of the
New York Sun, the New York Evening
Post, the New York Herald, the New
York Evening Telegram and the New
York World. These are the most COM
petent authorities in the east who have
so far formed star elevens, and the
fact that all agree on any one player
| is pretty good guarantee that he has
| a royal chance to be the ultimte Camp
! selection for the position.
| All five men agree that the big Yale
end and the little Princeton end are
| their records, and most people VINO
have seen either in action will agree
| that their judgment cannot be far
wrong Probably Forbes is the better
man of the two, but Wister, who has
probably proved to be the best man in
the business at handling the forward
! pass. is not far behind him. AS substi-
| tutes to these two men several are
| mentioned, among them Exedine of
| Dague of the navy.
Bigelow of Yale is agreed upon by
| four Of the experts mentioned for one
of the tackle positions, while Draper
of Pennsylvania is favored by three.
C. Walter Randall, the former Harvard
end, is the Evening Posts expert and
he is the only one of the five sharps
to leave Bigelow out of his team. Ran
dalrs selections for the tackles are
Pullen of West Point and Osborne of
Harvard. Charles Chadwick, the old
Yale player, also makes Osborne one of
his choices.
Thompson of Cornell Favored.
Thompson of Cornell gets the deci-
sion of four of the five experts for one
of the guard positions. Chadwick of
the World being the only one TO leave
MIN out of the running. Chadwick
skips the big Ithacan to make place
for Brides of the Eli team. Big Burr
of Harvard gets the vote of three of
the sharps for the other guard, while |
Kersberg, the other crimson guard, is
selected by two. |
Hockenberger of Yale has the call |
for the snapback position, being picked |
for the honor by the Sun, Post and |
Evening Telegram. Parker gets the |
vote of Chadwick of the World, while |
the Herald is the sponsor for Newman,
the light but clever center Of Pop
Warmers big red team. Newman is
the choice of three for substitute CEN