The Detroit times., 1909-12-15
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/ II is seldom that it becomes the
privilege of a VT stern football iltnd To
catch one Of tine eastern experts with
e----% the goods Oh rs Is
,,,,, cnn the case this sea
o\ tITTn son Walter camp
CAMP. IL the cuprit and
.- the whole west has
chuckle coming over Walters All
America football selections wni'h have
come 10 d, the only real Nmericd
To which any sensible person pays
much of lLv attention.
Camp picked three football eleyens.
The first team Is OF course. the real
All.Amcrica and represents what Mr..
Camp believed the most formidable
combination which can be lss,hered
from the college teams of the east and
middle west The second team repre-
scnts the best bunch Walter can select
from what there vas left. The third
team is supposed to fulfill similar
purpose step lower I'm this way
Walter manages presumably 20 include
about everything he considers as
strictly nrstClass during The season
recently ended
Now the University OF Michigan
one line PLAYER whose like has seldom
been seen on any team He was a man
who stood out above his mates on
very high.class team. as the one big
find of the season According 10 no
less an authority than Coach Iost, this
man made more tackles in Michigan s
two hig games than did all his mates
combined His development. almost
unaiIed ~ any eXtrancous influence,
transformed The Michigan team from
the loser IL was against Notre Dame,
10 tn, winner Il proved 10 b. against
PENNSYLVANIA and Minnesota. II is
hardly necessary 10 name the athlete
20 whom This refers. Anyone In this
section knows that the description fits
only big Man Eating Smith. the
Wolverine center.
Nainly one scans Mr. Camps seleC-
tions for the notice OF Mir Smith
Cooney Of Yale is picked 20 do the
Passing for the All America. y With
ington Of Harvard presides al the posi-
tiOn on the second team Farrum OF
MirnesOta-saVe the marks the
center selected for the third team
OF course. II NAV seem peeVish in
any obscure adherent OF western foot
bail TO cavil over the piCkings OF Won
dcrful Walter who invented the All
America and has been the proud
parent of nCT one every year. Par
ticularlv might this be urged this
year from the fact that his All
America does include Two western men
and that Camps other selections bris-
tie with western players. He even
picks Benbrook of Michigan at one Of
the guard positions OF his big team.
but even by so doing he further con.
victs himself OF the awful faux pas.
II BenbroOk was worthy OF place on
the team above such high-Class guards
as were admittedly plentiful on the
star teams of the east why in the
world has Camp omitted 10 give men
.'tion 10 such player as Smith, who
plainly eNcelled Benbrook I'm deeds OF
vaior and daring right when said
deeds were most certainly most dppro.
pirate? II Michigan had been entirely
ignored. we could understand fl. But
both Michigan and the other western
teams were given astonishing recogni-
tion. Why there IL Farnum. "A good
ploddiug. conservative sort OF PLAYER
though hopelessly outplayed by
Smiih--who grabs place on one Of
the teams just like breaking sticks,
But Mr. Camp has doubtless done
his best and has some excuse He IL
simply trying to cover field too
great for any one man Like the ball
player who was good to his poor.
widowed mother. we must make some
allowance for his mistakes Only.
when we can bear an instance like this
one I'm mind, II will be easy enough
to Justify past and future instances OF
disagreement between Mr. Camp and
his critics His say is long distance
from being final.