New-York tribune., 1910-01-25
HONOR FOR TED COY
FISH LAUDED ALSO.
Walter Camp Names a Team
of AH-Ame11co PLAYERS.

of 4H-4me11ca Players.
Ted Coy and Ham Fish, football captains.
respectively, at Yale and Harvard last fall.
are honored above other players of recent
years by being named on Walter Camps
All-America team of All-America players
for all time in the February issue of The
Century Magazine Mr. Camp explains
that he has been picking all star elevens
at the close of each season for twenty
years, and adds:
Since the year when the All-America
team was first selected the feeling has
grown to such an extent that now this roll
of honor is doubly and trebly worth trying
1or TO be chosen on the team means
that a man must surpass hundreds of his
fellows, must go through worry, grief hard
work. and probably several periods OF dis
couragement. AS it is always the highest
satisfaction to measure oneself with ones
fellows. and then to pass through a test
whereby outside judgment places a man at
the top, so it is that in various positions on
the An-America team no man succeeds in
reaching the goal without having earned
his place
To pick. then. an Au-America team of
All-America teams, to look over the vari-
Gus groups of the last twenty years and
choose frcm them men who lowered above
the heads of their fellows. one team of all,
seems ike a selection that must be, per-
maps. one of only personal feeling, jlsdg-
ment or prejudice call 1t what YOU will
Inc only excuse 1 have to offer is that I
nave known most of these players we'll
and from what I know of them I believe
that f all were gathered into one group
and a team he ,Jo,
they would be willing to abide by my
Judgment and take their turn from the side
lines as willingly to my call as to that
of any other man"
Mr.. Camps all-star eleven is made up as
follows:
Ends-Hinkey. Yale. and shevlin. Yale.
Princeton '
cfuards-Heffelhnger. Yale. and Hare,
Centre-Schultz. Michigan.
Quarterback-Walter EckersaU Chicago.
Michigan
Fullback-Coy. Yale.
Mr.. Camps reasons for the selections
make good reading. He says Weeks, of
Columbia, was the best end runner for
a man of his weight ever developed; he re-
fers In glowing terms TO the elusive Hinkey
and the speedy Shevlin; he says Hare stood
out as heroic figure in all the games
he played, and that Heffelinger is still
name 10 conjure with in football annals:
he lauds John De Witt. the great Prince
ton tackle and drop kicker, and calls
Schultz the best centre, everything con-
sidered, that ever played the game: he
thinks Heston the star halfback of the
West and a remarkable line bucker and
he speaks of Eckersall as one OF those
wonderful products in the way of a quar-
terback that combined practically all good
qualities. In referring particularly TO Fish
and Coy, Mr. Camp said
Fish, of Harvard. has made a name for
hIInselt at tackle. both as a product OF the
plays that We're effective before the intro
auction OF the new game and as a man
VINO VINO took TO the forward pass and the
other tackle. In addition TO this he was
a leader of men, and much of the attack
ana defence OF his team was built about
him; There is no man who has been devel-
ward pass who could equal him at receiv-
Suetch or MS arms up into the air. as can
readily be appreciated. is considera Bile
Furthermore. he had a way Of so planting
himself upon his feet that the men whose
province 1t was TO knock over the man
RECEIVING the pass almost invariably found
F1sh 1mmovable. He was often down the
Held ahead of his ends. and was a certa in
and deadly tackler. AS an interferer he
was equally good. and on the whole he is is
the best rounded out Of ali the tackles
that have played the position.
Coy, of Yale, has the most remarka bIe
complnatlon OF qualities that have been
gathered together in any player on the
gridiron., Stripping close 70 193 pounds.
a remarkably fast runner and with high
knee ACTON. II was almost impossible 10
stop MN from in front when he had ac-
speed TO make his runs from kick forn1a
uon very dif1cult proposition for oppo-
hents, whereas when he received the kick
ana ran II pack there was no telling how
lar he would go. In Harvard and Prince
Ton games in his, sophomore and junior
10 kick the ball, for Coy if he had a ia
start would as likely as not run il hack
the Whole length Of the kick. AS a punter
ne Gonolned great accuracy and distance
IN drop kicks so that in one Princeton
came gan ne tried tried a kick from, midield and,
goal This was with the ball in no TOO
good condition. AS tackler and de-
tenslve PLAYER among men of his weight
ana strength he was exceptional while
his all round knowledge of the game was
such that he could play at end as readily
as at fullback and in the early part Of
ms career was an excellent tackle on his
freshman team.
OF almost greater interest. in view of the
near approach of the annual meeting Of
the football rules committee, Mr.. Camp in
the same article, after giving history
of the game, refers to some possih,a
changes in the code He says in speaking
of the forward pass:
Many are calling for the abolition of the
forward pass. Yet il d oes seem as if the
attracttveness of that play may still be
preserved if the distance 10 be gained be
increased. and at the same time omen field
running be aided by forbidding tackiing
below the hips. The order of legislation
should certainly be, first the lessening of
the danger incident to mass play and. sec
ond the preservation of a fair balance be-
tween the attack and the defence
In this connection perhaps one point
has not received its full emphasis The
game has furnished an opportunity not
offered in any other sport for the big
overgrown fat boy who before the intro,
duction of the game had no field in which
he could shine. and hence too little incen-
tive to exercise. The type of man who
for the last twenty years has found in the
football positions of centre and guard a
chance particularly designed for him was
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