The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-28
JOURNAh-COURIER
 ALL-AMERICAN Princeton Without Man, Due to Illness of Eddie Dillon Nourse Represents
 Harvard.
WALDER THE BEST CAPTAIN
Yale and Pennsylvania Each Has Three Men on Eleyen--Three Iullbacks Found in the
 Back Field.

over An-American teams which could overturn the Great Wall of China are being picked and after the Army and Navy game to-day the country will be flooded with them, As most of those who choose the All American teams are customers the place which tho western players should have on the elevens is questionable, for few of those in the east have seen them play. There is one man in the west, how ever. who from all accounts should have place on an All American eleven and that is Captain Steffen, the Chicago quarterback. Steffen has proved himself the quarterback of the year, in 8 year peculiarly barren of good quarterbacks Last year there were many and the greatest of dlff1- culty was experienced in finding who for all around work was the best. This year had he been in good physi- cal condition the All American quar- terback would undoubtedly have been Eddie Dillon, the Princeton captain. But positions should not be filled by past performances and there have been many here in the east who this year for steady and even brilliant playing have surpassed Dillon. Pshon of Dartmouth, who is fast as he Is light, has proved himself the super for of Dillon this year, sprackling of Brown and Cutler of Harvard are his equals. Better than any of them, in the time he played was Miller, the substitute Pennsylvania quarterback who was called in hy the illness of Reinath.
 On the record of his past perform ances Scultz of Michigan will find place on many All Americans. But Walter Eckersan, who has followed the game for the Chicago newspapers, finds that Schultz is not even second choice for 8 western team, and so could hardly be expected to make the All American.
 Captain Philoon of West Point has been a good steady center, but for the whole season Nourse of Harvard seems to be the premier center of them all Never was this more shown than in the Yale-Harvard game, for Riddle, the Yale center, toward the end of tho season, was one of the best men In the east in his position.
 What seems the best team is peculiar In one way. That is in that 1t con tains no Princeton players and but one Harvard player, leaving out Tibbott, the Tiger halfback, and Fish, the Harvard tackle. Tibbott shone in the Yale game, but has shone among the Princeton players He was the par ticular star there rather than a star player himself. Fish is good with the forward pass, and Is a good tackle but this year there has been wealth of tackles. In the Yale-Harvard game Hobbs had 1t on Fish. Brides is a good tackle and Seigllng, the captain elect of Princeton, is about his equal But the best tackles of the year are Cap tain Horr of Syracuse and Draper of Pennsylvania.
 While Harvard, which is this years championship team has but one player on the all-American, Pennsylvania and Yale each have three. Pennsylvania is the opponent of Harvard for premier honors, and Individually her men were better. The Yale team is now admitted to be team of stars who were not coached to play together, who were not coached by the proper methods and who were weak in vital positions. No better guards can be found in the country than Goebel and Andrus. Cap. tain Burr himself as guard is not their superior, though his bunting ability puts him ahead of them as an all around player, The other Yale man who should make the all-American is Coy, who has done brilliant work at fullback all through the season
 Scarlett of Pennsylvania Is one of the ends, Of this there can be no doubt And a careful study of the teams gives Schldmiller of Dartmouth the place at the other end. Donnie of Brown Is a first-class man, but net quite the equal os the other two. On his form shown i1 the Harvard game Logan of Yale is the equal of Schlldmiller.
 In the backheld is found the third Pennsylvania player Captain Holen. bach The backfeld is made I'D entire ly of fullbacks, Coy being at full on the eleven and Hollenbach at one of the halves, The other halfback position |, reserved for Walder. the Cornell cap tain who had been the whole life par tcu1ary in the backfold of the Cornel team, Tn team rich in material for captains, Walder seems to be the best though Horr of Syracuse, is a close sec. ond Holenbach had more to do witt than waller and more veterans o whom the eleven could be made up
 Head Coach Haughton of Harvard should be the coach of this All-Ameri can team, though 1t would take Haugh- ton a long while to bring II Into shape The best strength test of this clever would be a game against the trained Harvard team which in It's games has shown itself a triumph of machinery The Journal-Courier All-LAmericar therefore is as follows;
 ScarIett ......,..,..,,,..... FennsS Draper .,......, Pennsy Andrus ".....,,,.,..,..... Yale .. Nourse .................... Horn. Goebel.