Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

FOOTBALL
TEAMS SHOULD
GET TOGETHER
Prominent Authority Expresses Desire
to See Honorary Formations in
Action for Good of
Charity

"This All-America team business is get
ting TOO Deep" said prominent football
authority at the University of Pennsyl-
vania the other day. There ought to De
a committee appointed by the rules COM
mittee to select an All-America eleven
and make it official. Then 1t would De
nossible 10 make a sane selection. For
instance, how could Camp judge of Penn
performances in the Michigan game? He
couldn't for that day he was watching
Yale and Princeton play.
wouldn't It 'be great if the first and
second All-American teams could meet
each other at Christmas time, the pro-
eeeds 10 go to some worthy charity; or
vhv couldn't an All-Eastern ana an AN
Western team pay? 1t would De great
honor To make this team and give toot-
hail lovers a great run for their money
If certainly would beat this empty-hoh-
ored business of every Tom, DICK anu
Harry all over the country picking team
from material half of which he has never
seen" -,
TIL. Yale football team has not been
beaten for two years, although tied by
the army this year and by Princeton last
year West Point beat Yale IN l5Oo anu
princeton downed them III l9VS, "nl's
uarvard's great team in 1901 defeated
vale. BESIDES these few reverses ale
has won consistently and has mace
record unequaled by any other coAese
eleven. -,
YaIa's success is due undoubtedly 10 the
finely organized system and the loyalty
~ tha New Haven graduates, who search
all over the country for Likely young EEL
lows 10 enter the New Haven university
Yale has a great many students from tue
west and middle states, and a srea'
MANY Of these boys figure in fale atm
letics. ..-.,
II is matter of interest to patriotic
PENNSYLVANIA that nine or the eleNen
regular members of Old Penns 1871 lool-
hall team are natives of this stare
creane's home is in Connecticut, while
Draper halls from Massachusetts, but
CANAAN Folwell, Hollenback, keinath'
Pauxtis, CASTOR, Gallagher, Dwyer, Zleg-
Ter and Scarlet are all from Pennsyl-
Vania.
Penn. however, gets a great number oil
men from other states, and probaply mas
more athletes from foreign ell<fes tnsn
any other university. This is due 10 the
excellence of Old Penn's medical and den
tai departments, which attract students
from all over the world. Haskins, the
star runner, is from New Zealand; Cart
nell, the sprinter, from Kentucky, whlle
whitman, Jones and Taylor, the other
stars OF the track, are all Philadelphlans
Fx-Captain Judd of the baseball team Is
another athlete from a far away cline
hailing from the Hawaiian Islands. The
majority of PENIS star crew men-Cap-
tain Emig. Drayton, Shoemaker, Hendrie
Walten-are Pennsylvanians, while every
regular member of the crack basketball
fiye-Captain Fitzpatrick, Keinath, Kie-
faber. McCrudden, Sommer and McNichol
lis a Philadelphia.
Famous among PENIS foreign athletes
are Stevenson, the crew man of few
years ago who came from New Zealand
Dewhurst, the tennis champion. who also
hailed from the Antipodes, and Takaki
the little Jap, who played footballaand
baseball on the second teams, and who
made the tennis team. Cowishaw, the
| crack swimmer, was from Australia; Dan
Renear, another swimmer, halls from
Honolulu. while Springer water polo
| player, was an Austrian.