The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23
ALL.AMERTCAN TEAMS
PICKED BY WALTER CAMP
Best Men From the Big Colleges Who Played on the
Gridron During the Past Season and
Won Distinction

AAtAo " A4tt team eAniDlllnE lnaL Wc1ka
ness.
Having secured n game as well bal
anced as this the public and authorities
Will be rghtfully unwilling to risk its
loss through retrogression or experiment
tation. Less distance to be gained in
three downs will mean return to mass
plays. Greater freedom of the forward
pass viii make that pass a matter OF
luck instead OF specific skill on the part
OF the passer and the man who is TO
catch the ball. Besides. by taking or
the restrictions we should run tho risk
OF bringing back the mass plays on tackle
by The forcing back OF still another man
on the defense. This would weaken the
line to such an extent that mass plays
might quite possibly yield the necessary
gains. The general desire is to have the
rules crystalline, 10 permit them 70 ex-
hibit such further possibilities as they
may offer. and take no chance. by start
ing alterations, of disturbing the present
balance.
That seems to be the lesson OF the sea-
son, but in order to keep 1t before the
mind it ought to be pressed home with
emphasis.
a Famous Eleven.
In December, 1850. the writer, in a week.
" publication issued in New York, de-
scribed what he called. for lack of a bet
ter title. THE Au-America Football
Team. 1t may be Of interest to note thu
men who formed that first collection or
star players and whom he regarded as
the best eleven men in their positions:
Ends-Stagg. Of Yale and Cumnock.
of Harvard
Tackles-Cowman. Of Princeton. and
Gill of Yale.
Guards-HeHcEinger. Of Yale. and
CranstOn. of Harvard.
Centre-George. Of Princeton.
Quarterback-Poe. OF Princeton.
Railroads.&c.. Of Harvard, and Cham
ming, of princeton.
Funback-Ames. of Princeton.
This, then. was the first all-America
team. and. in spite OF the annual list or
players selected by the writer during the
years that have followed. surely those
who remember these men would be de-
lighted to see them as they were in that
day take part IN the present game Of
1906, and many believe that that team.
even against stars of to-day. would quits
hold its own.
since those days the number Of candi-
dates Tor teams and the number of men
ln the squad have grown 70 such an ex-
tent that IL is admitted by all that no
iirst-class team would for a minute think
themselves equipped with less than thirty
available men, Hence. in the selection
OF national team one ought NOT 10 la
satisfied with lesser number. particuiar-
iy inasmuch as on almost all the tsar,s
inns year men are not graded as first
ana second eleven men. and il is often
a question between two men which SHAH
De put In first and which take his Mace
later IN the game. In almost all the big
universities three complete elevens ars
carried through the season. and for this
reason the writer has annually selected
three eleVens to make up the team. and
ne might as coach Of such "a national
team put in under certain conditions a
man named i'm tho third. rather than a
man named in the first. for some particu-
lar work required on the occasion.
Forbes. Of Yale. proved himself -,
ideal end under the present rules ia
had oeen the fastest tackle on tho Grid
IRON IN getting down the field on Ixiessu.
with all his speed he weighed as r,rrcb
as any ordinary guard, and. aIthoueb az
times the momentum OF his weight cstse-
cd MN 10 overrun his mark no back urs
STRONG enough 20 push him OF when once
ne reached his man. His defensive WORK
was good throughout. while on the 81
Tense no better man could have been ch0s.-
en- 10 go back Of the line and lead the
backs or plunge himself
Hc was not used in the Princeton usr,,.
20 carry the bali until th. second halR.
but when he was sent had little difficulty
In making his distance And when rs
stood in the gap masking play for Iinn