Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-13
HONOR LIST IN FOOT BALL.
Walter Camp Selects One Instead of
All-America Team.

There cannot be much doubt that there
is to be reform in foot ball, after seeing
what Walter Camp has done this year
instead of selecting an al-American foot
ball team. which used to be done. In
the January Outing he names simply an
Honor List of 1909 Foot Ball. and
tells what the men have done to deserve
being on 1t. This is a departure from
custom that cannot fail to be hailed
as the first real step toward reforming
foot ball. The honor list includes these
men:
r, iale-c9y fulhsck; Fitzpatrick, right end;
nhiibin left halfbaek: Andrus left guard
Hobbs; left tackle; Cooney, center; Howe. quar-
Pennsylvania Braddock. left end; Miller. right
end: Pike right guard; Hutchinson. quarterback.
cd Haryard.Ffsh right tackle; Minoi. frilback;
Dartmouth-Marks. fullback: Tobin left guard
Ingefsol: left halfbaek: Bankhart. right end
r1saEIer , left end Mccaa fubaek
Princeton siegling. left tackle. Bergin, quar-
e Far. GunniGsaan right n, halfnacs
ter T,n Mccarthy right halrbaek
brown-hegnler. right end; Sprackling quar-
terback; Ayler. left guard.
back
- MiehiEana BenbTook left guard; Magidsohn,
".
left tackle; Smith. center: Wasmund. quarter
back.
Notre Dame-MIer. left halfback; Vaughn.
fulback; Edwards. tackle.
Observation-Disclosures, quarterback.
1t is to be noted that Cornell has no
men on this list and that Penn State also
is left out. The list covers the country
pretty well. and is notable in that IL
gives places to Notre Dame for the first
time in years, If ever the college had
men whose work was noted by an east
erner.s Mr.. Camp Travelled a deal in the
middle west this year. believing the
teams there better than in 1908, when
he paid no attention to the conference
colleges.
Yale's seven men are the NEST that any
college has. Next is Michigan, with six
Harvard. Penn. Dartmouth and Mime
sofa have four each. Lafayette, Prince
ton. Fordham. Brown and Notre Dame
have three each, Chicago two and Wis
consin one.
1t would be easy to rearrange the men
by places and not by colleges TO find out
which ones Mr.. Camp regards as the
best for the various positions, except in
the case Of couple.
The much-heralded game of Cana adam
Rugby foot hall Saturday probably had
some Of the men who will have to meet
later TO discuss changes in the foot ball
rules and they had little preliminary
conversation on the subject. The meet
Ing Oh the j. L. A. "A. L. .. winch Sc
lects part of the intercollegiate foot ball
rules committee, will be held December
%. There will undoubtedly be no meet
ing of the rules committee until well
along in next year.
Perhaps a line on what Mr.. Camp in
tends to propose as reforms in foot ball
is given in the Outing article. Mr.. Camp
says:
1.-THE really difficult problem. and the
one that brought unfortunate results was
that 1T was impossible to develop. In the
time allotted. an offense which combined
a steady running game with the posi-
biities of the forward pass and onsde
kick and at the same time to take care
of the double defense necessitated by
these possibilities.
1T became necessary, therefore, for a
team to decide whether it was better to
sacrifice defense to the practice of their
strong open play or to attempt to hold
the ball a greater proportion of the time
by a more compact Offense than to de-
veIop a broad defense. This unfortunate
Iy brought back something in the nature
Of the mass play. for it held out as a
possible goal the probability of being able
to make three and one-third yards to a
down consistently by massing plays on
tackle.
This was going back with a vengeance
to the old game. but strategically 1t
meant. If it could be accomplished the
longer possession of the ball. and by that
very means the keeping it away from the
opponents and thus avoiding the neces-