Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
GREAT PAIRS IN FOOT BALL
Players Who Have Worked Together
and Earned Fame.
sHEvLM AND RAFFERTY, TRICK
These Two Once Hit a Man Together
ana Flung Him Back over
His own Goal for n
safety.

So often as to be worthy Of note II has
happened I'm foot ball that one unusually
good player has had a team and position
mate as good or nearly so as himself. II
so. so much the better for the team, so
much more likely the intense II ephem-
eral joys Of victory. In the frequency
with which there have been a good pair
OF ends, a good pair Of tackles, a good
pair Of guards or a good pair of half
backs-the adjective should be strength
ened TO fine or splendid, anyway above
the ordlnary-on some one team one Of
the two may be better solely through the
example of his mate, or else the pair just
happened to flourish contemporaneously,
Foot ball sharps cannot dissociate Henry
OF Princeton from Davis. These two were
fellow ends at Princeton and the most
able pair Of outflankers Nassau ever had.
Seldom do two players 30 nearly matched
in ability happen to strike the same team
at the same time. How fleet they were,
how vigIlant, how deadly in tackling, how
hard was It to turn their endsl And Shev-
lin and Rafferty, of Yalel There was a
pair Of finished ends for you. fleet and
strong and tireless and fearless, masters
of their positions, and when they gripped
a man he went back toward his own goal.
Flung Back over own Goal.
We remember once seeing shevlin and
Rafferty, hit a man together and fling him
back over his own goal line for a safety.
Shevlin and Rafferty, and Davis and
Henry played opposite one another and
they gave an exhibition of end play in 1903
as isn't seen once in ten~years. Yale had
another great pair in Hinkey and Green
way Of the early 1908. Hinkey never had
a superior, possibly never an equal. He
outshone his partner. Greenway; could
diagnose a play better than any end be-
fore or since and was sureness itself in
tackling and was efficient enough OF his
own account to bring the pair up to a high
standard.
Harvsrd's best pairs OF ends were Hal
lowell and Cochrane of the victorious 1898
eleven and Campbell and Bowditch Of the
powerful 1901 team. Hallowell and Coch-
rane were built alike, tall and rangy, and
OF equal ability. Their team play was
great. Campbell surpassed Bowditch. He
was a sointillating star, but Bowditch was
good, too, and did not merely shine In his
associates reflected glory.
Princeton has in Poe and Palmer two
small ends who were SO fast and sure that
they made up for their slightness Of weight.
Both smashed intrepidly into Interference,
anu roo was n WODueT at weaving III ana
getting to his man. Scarlet and Lavene
Of Pennsylvania were a swift and capable
pair and at Fordham they think with rea-
son that this years pair. Mccarthy and
McCaffrey, neither a big man, are about
as good as they come.
Similarity I'm TackIinE.
Similar conditions are found in the tackle
positions. One star pairs off with another.
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Where there was a Wallis at Yale there
also was a Winter. 1t was close between
them as to which was the better. They
were clean built fellows, symmetrical rather
than beefy and both exceptionally pro-
ficient at breaking through and fast in
getting down under a punt. They played
on a sequence Of strong teams at Yale.
They were the best pair that Yale had
until Stillman and Bloomer appeared and
helped make Gordon Browns all conquer
ing team OF 1900 such a powerful scoring
machine. The latter two's part was par
~ticularly effective. for they were the main
driving force in the tackle back formation
which ground opposing defences to pieces.
Then came Hogan and Kinney, two
tackles at Yale cast in Herculean mould.
Kinney was not the star Hogan was, but
with his strength and size fitted In well
with the gigantic Yale line Of 1902. Cults
and Blagden, Harvard tackles on Camp
bells Harvard eleven OF 1901 were a power
full pair, both brawny, heavy men, but ac-
tive and fast. The holes they could open
were like unto a barn door. Blagden didn't
have the reputation Of Cults, but in a less
snowy fashion he did the work. Hille-
brand and Church at Princeton teamed at
tackle on the 1895 team. a strong and well
balanced organization, and we're a puts
MH-NN.
Princeton, an earlier day pair OF tackles.
Waters and Newell Of Harvard who played
tackle together In the old Springfield days,
were a wonderful capable all around pair,
Waters q first class man and Newell as
good a tackle, combining strength, speed
and head work, as ever played the game.
Noted pairs of guards have been numer-
GUS. Heffelfinger and Morrison at Yale
nearly twenty years ago were mighty men
In the center Of the line. both over six
feet. spare OF build, but fleet and resolute
and strong. getting over a great amount
Of ground and into all the plays. Heffel-
finger as a guard stands alone, and his
partner was a lesser light, not. however
because he really was not first class, but
because Heffelfinger was his contemporary,
At that time Riggs and Wheeler were
playing guards at Princeton. They were
corkers too, and it was q battle OF the
giants when they lined up against Heffel.
finger and Morrison.
Brown and sheldon at Yale in 1900 made
a couple OF guards who were the best pail
at Yale since Heffelnnger and Brow
Morrison. They, too, were giants, both ovel
six feet. two inches. and indefatigablC
workers. Glass and Goss came two years
later and left their mark. Goss was 9
man Of great strength, not with the techni'
cal ability or agility Of the famous Glass
but who rose to great things with a crack
guard alongside OF him. IL was a due
% strong men when Edwards and Crowds
guards at Princeton in 1897, played against
Chadwick and Brown OF Yale. Edwards
md Crowds were both over 200 pounds
big physically and In foot ball ability