The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-09
CRITICS ARE
APART ON TALENT
All Eastern Teams Show Wide
Divergence of Opinion
by Writers.

New York, Dec. Snow that the
football season has come to it's wind
up in a blaze Of glory with the splen-
did clash Of the warriors Of the army
and navy at Philadelphia, the experts
arc busily engaged all over again on
paper. The open season for all Ameri-
ca and au-eastern elevens is now on
in earnest, and every day brings one
or more lineupsy from some. quarter. Of
cou1se the makings of ihese artificial
teams is bootlesss and, for, the most
part. is franklY sognii Esd Esd sin 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-
tion 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.
It will be some time before Mr..
Camp gets his several teams together,
however, and in the meantime the pub
lie is forced to content itself with the
lesser sharps, mostly the football writ
ers Of the leading eastern newspapers.
AS 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 who appear in practically all
the imaginary star elevens so far made
hot
jority of cases, possibly in nearly all,
they will be found as members of the
teams to be created by the famous
Yale expert when he gets down to. Sc
rious work.
Forbes of Yale and Wister of Prince
ton are ends on every one of the five
elevens made up by the experts of the
New York Su4, 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
royal chance to be the ultimate Camp
selection for the position.
All five men agree that the big Yale
end and the little Princeton end are
the cracks of the eastern game on
their records. and most people who 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 bust
ness at handling the forward pass, is
not far behind him. AS substitutes to
these two men several, are mentioned.
among them Exedine of Carlisle, LIE,
Vene OF Pennsylvania and Dague Of
the navy. : *E - -
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
q. Walter Randall, the former Harvard
end, is the Evening Post s expert and
ne IS the only one Of the FIVE sharps
to leave Bigelow out Of his team Ran
dall's 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
him out Of the running. Chadwick
skips the big Ithacan to make a place
for Brides of the Eli team. Big Burr
Of Harvard gets the vote Of three of
the sharps for the other guard, while
] ersberg, the other crimson guard, is
selected by two. 1T.
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 fof the World, while
the Herald is the sponsor for Newman,
the light but clever center of Pop
Warmer s big red team. . Newman ia