Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-02
Final Games in Philadelphia
Were Spectacular Contests.
SPORT FAR MORE POPULAR
First and Second All-Eastern Teams
for 1907.
YALE HAS LEADERSHIP HONOR
Winter Racing at New Orleans.
Burns and Moir Fight Tonight.
Base Ball Notes.

1t Is all over. The foot ball campaign
Of 1907 Is now history. The final acts IN
the gridiron drama were played In this
Pennsylvania-Cornell Thanksgiving
day and the Navy-Army game Saturday.
UnuI September, 1908, foot ball will be
subject of discussion only. That it was
one of the most interesting seasons In the
history of the great college sport every
critic and student of the game will admit
There were less fatal accidents, the sport
had been purged of its monotonous and
brutal features, open play predominated
as never before, and the smaller colleges
presented stronger combinations with the
same material to work on than ever be-
fore, Everything considered. it was a
great triumph for the revised code, and
today the sport is more popular than
ever.
Actual playing being a thing of the
past in the foot ball season, the commu-
nifty Is now in the throes of the harmless
pastin1e of picking ALI teams. In reality
there is no reason why there should not
be as many all" teams as there are foot
ball followers. Every man is entitled to
his own choice, and there is no such
thing as an official selection. Walter
Camps comes nearest 10 being regarded
as official. and it would not be bad idea
If the official stamp were placed on Camps
or some other impartial experts selection
may come to the front some day with
sufficient temerty to set an example by
not picking any ALI team. a fictitious
growth now found on every bush.
1t would be hard scrap between the
two teams named below. with the odds
only slightly in favor of the first team.
These two teams are not all-America
teams. 1t is hard enough to pick teams
from the eastern players, and even then
there Is a chance of leaving off some
player Of smaller eleven who is entitled
10 a place. Therefore the following first
and second teams are all eastern teams
pure and simple:
All-Eastern Teams
First teanl-Dague. Annapolis. and Ex-
endine. Carlisle. ends; Biglow. Yale, and
Draper. Pennsylvania, tackles: Ziegler,
PENNSYLVANIA. and Erwin. West Point
guards; Grant, Harvard, center; Jones,
Yale. quarterback; Hollenback. Pennsyl-
vania. and Coy, Yale, halfbacks; McCor-
mick, Princeton, fullback.
Second team-Wister, Princeton, and
Alcott, Yale. ends; Horr. Syracuse, and
O'Rourke. Cornell, tackles: Thompson,
Cornell. and Goebel. Yale. guards: Sling
]uff Annapolis, center; Dillon. Princeton.
quarterback: Douglas. Annapolis, and
Wendell. Harvard. halfbacks; Hauser
Carlisle, fullback
The first thing that strikes one about
the first team named is its offensive
strength. 1t contains a rare lot of men
who are proficient at advancing the ball.
Draper and Ziegler in the line and every
one Of the four backs are conspicuously
capable ground-gainers and the ends are
good at receiving the forward pass and
making whatever gains may accrue from
that method of advance.
Dague in the game last Saturday gave
the best exhibition of all-around end pay
seen on the field this season. The play
Of Dague and his partner, De Mott, the
kicking of Douglas and the Nays follow
ing of the ball were the classiest features
of a game which in most other respects
was not up to the big college standard
Dague covers kicks remarkably we'll and
Is the best man in the east at preventing
running them back. End play in general
has improved in that respect under the
new rules. when the need of additional
vigilance and activity on the part of the
ends to guard against the forward pass
and onside kick has resulted in a wider
range of end duties and ability to respond
to the demand. Consequently there has
not been much chance to run back kicks
unless the side protecting the catcher was
able to do some clever cutting out of OPP
posing players on getting down to the
catcher.
Dague Wonder.
Dague shapes his course to the man
making the catch with unerring judg
course of the kick. He seldom overruns
and barring slight tendency to tackle
high-no more SO than any end has-he
tackles with certainty and firmness He
is so fast and sure that he thus makes
up for his lack of weight He RECEIVERS
onside kicks deftly, is very quick at
falling on the ball and follows it closely.
He is also a good defensive end in sCrim-
magins, rarely being boxed either spiling
an interferer or locating and grabbing
his man before the latter has passed the
line of scrimmage. Exendine of the In
oians Is an expert at receiving the for
ward pass, and strong and fast man.
There was nothing mechanical about his
play this season and when he tackles he
often puts his man over backward.
Scarlet, Alcott and Wister all did en-
cellent work this season. did Pauxtis
after he had been sent to end Mac
donald also did well in the Yale game.
Riglow of Yale and Draper of Pennsyl-
rania again showed that they were star
tackles. Biglow is the quickest man
IN the country with the snap of the ball
There is wide sweep in his play but it
always is TO the purpose never loose