The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-09
FOOTBALL MEN
ON
THE TRACK
Two GridirOn Stars Per-
form Well on Cinder Path.
Sports Don't Mix.

How very few star football men have
ever gained fame as track athletes, and
how few of the men who burn up the
cinder path ever gain recognition at the
pigskin game! Ordinarily the only place
where a man may try to be both is within
his college, for there is little he can do
at either branch Of athletics after depart
ing from the classic walls of his alma
mater outside of the field of professional
ism, where there is really no chance for
a try at both.
Many football men are proficient at base
ball, and as the latter game is second ma
ture to the American boy, many college
track men indulge in that game with much
credit to themselves. But track and foot
ball seem to be at swords points. a
man entering college usually has had
some experience at either game and to
that one he sticks so that the men who
have made good at both can be counted
on ones fingers.
Look over the list Of those chosen for
the All-American teams and singing out
those who are yet remembered as stars
and regarded as the best in their days. not
one has left any record of feats on field
or track. OF course, since the larger num-
Der of the line men chosen in most re-
spects resembled the side of a house, not
ulucl MOuiQ Dt tAPtNtth VI ANA t0SNHN
perhaps in the weight events, but with the
constant aim of all Coaches to develop
speed in the backfield ii would naturally
be expected that here some OF the talent
would get into the spring and summer
events. However, such was not the case.
OF the older forwards the great guard,
Heffelfnger, of Yale; Cranston, Halloweit
and Waters, of Harvard; Lea, Wheeler,
Riggs and Hillebrand, of Princeton; Hare,
TIra,Iu,af ,-I XNThnrfnp - pnnnG4r1xy0 mia
and the only two men who were chosen
four times for the mythical eleven, New
ell, Of Harvard. and Hinkey, Of Yale, did
not leave behind them any records of hav-
ing performed In track or field events. The
backtield luminaries suffered the same fate,
for neither of the Poes, of Princeton, nor
McClung and de Saulles. of Yale; Dibblee
and Brewer, of Harvard. aud Minds, or
Pennsylvania, who, with Hirschberger, Of
Chicago, shares the reputation of having
been the best fullback of them all, ever
came to the front as a point winner on
the cinoer path.
Few Have Turned the Trick.
In the last decade the only men who
have made good at both branches Of
sport have put in an appearance, and how
small is the number as compared with the
great number of young men who have
pdTOclDaIeu, anu WHO nave Hldue nDttSl
effort to win laurels on both fields. Camp
bell, Cults and Burr, of Harvard, are her
greatest representatives. while Dewitt and
Cooney, of Princeton, Piekarski and Lam
son, of Pennsylvania, and Brown, Hogan
and Shevlin, of Yale. excelled as line men.
And of the whole list only two, Shevlin
and Dewitt, made their marks on the
athletic field. These star players used to
fling the ~16-pound hammer enough to dis
concert their rivals in the East and won
consistently.
Outside of Rockwell, who also wore the
blue, the backs of the latter period were
no more fortunate than their forerunners.
DAILY, one of the greatest little quarter
back that ever donned the moleskins,
would have been an also ran on the track
and right along in his class would have
been Mcbride, Hale and Chadwick, of
Yale; Graydon and Hurley, of Harvard;
Eckerall, of Chicago, and Heston, of
Michigan. This last man was tried out
for the dashes timeN and time again. and
Fitzpatrick hoped in vain to turn some of
the marvellous speed shown on the grid
iron to account on the track, but all to
no avail. Heston could outrun Archie
hahn, the ten-second m a for about fifty
yards, but at that point he was done.
OF course, there were many other men
who compared favorably with those who
"SAt luiAuhdte enough 10 be chosen on
the Au-American, and men, too. who
We're probably just as deserving of the
coveted places. But none of these men.
and the West claims O'Day, of Wiscon-
sin; Salmon, of Notre Dame, and Bezdek,
or Chicago, violated the rule.
Inc Two best men in the country. that
is, the two men who above all others have
made things hum at both sports. are
not white men. Green, of Reserve,
and Mt. Pleasant, of the Indians. have
the call. Both were star pigsLdn artists
and both are runners and broad jumpers.
X the country over, how closely the
ine has been drawn and how infreuuentlv
nave the men made good at both snorts
IN the face of the grand, training college
men get athletically, it Is certainly a won
derful record.
On the other hand, every frst-cIass
track man in the country has tried for
his college eleven and with the executions
noted have been consistently unsuccess-
Inl, Inc Eastern %sprinters. Setback and
Duny' were too light, while "Ralphy''
Rose and Galpin could not go the route