The Washington herald., 1910-12-11
AN ALL AMERICAN OF ALL AMERICAN
FOOTBALL TEAM.
BY TOMMY CLARK.

~ VEN though the rootball season
Of 1910 is now a thing of the
past and all the big elevens
~ have sele ed their leaders for
next season anC the experts have
chosen their all star teams. an All
American OF All Americans will no
doubt prove interesting to the follow
ers Of the strenuous girdiron game.
The eleven is composed of men who
have been awarded conspicuous places
IN the theoretical football hall of fame.
The eleven, if the players could be
brought together and found capable OF
duplicating their best efforts during
their greatest years would undoubted
~ be invincible. The game has changed
materially in the past fifteen years, and
the alterations might affect the playing
of several men. Still, many of the old
timers showed such adaptability that
Il would not take them long to learn
the new style game.
Under the new football code speed is
supposed TO be the dominating factor.
but even with the open play the man
OF muscle does not come amiss. This
does not mean that beef counts as
much as 1t did during the reign Of the
old style mass play, but endurance and
strength are mighty handy. How the
old timers would handle the forward
pass is problematical, but the ma
jority OF them possessed such remark
able football instinct that they would
take 10 it like a duck TO water.
Fitzpatrick and Hinkey, Ends.
Selecting the ends for the team is a
hard task. there having been many
good ones. Going over the list one
finds such stars as Hinkey and Shev-
lin OF Yale. Cabot. HaIlowell and
Campbell Of Harvard. Cochran. Henry
and Davis of Princeton, Colbert and
Scarlet Of Penn. Glaze of Dartmouth
and host Of others.
My selections for ends are Hinkey OF
the 1892. 1898 and 1894 Yale eIevens
and Fitzpatrick OF the 1909 and 1910
teams These two are undoubtedly
the greatest OF all ends. Under the
old rules Hinkey was a star. and he
would also shine under the new code
were such a chance given to him.
His name has grown to signify the
perfection OF end play. Hinkey went
through the interference like a shadow
and invariably picked out the man with
the ball
Although he weighed but $50 pounds,
he never had any difficulty in boxing
his tackle and giving his runner a good
chance to get by. Hinkey was not
physically remarkable. but he had re-
mo rIro hia foofhau fpstfDct ard an ,,o
erring knowledge of how 10 get there
and where 10 be at the right time.
Playing under the new code, Hinkey
would be a great man TO handle the
forward pass.
Under both the new and old rules
Fitzpatrick is an ideal end man. He
divided the honors with Hinkey as the
greatest that ever appeared on a grid
iron. 1t was almost impossible TO box
him up. He covered punts with al
most instructive sureness. while his
tackling was hard. certain and effec-
tive. He was down the field under long
punts like a racing automobile and un-
errlng in his diagnosis OF every play
aimed at him. The runner seldom got
around the Fitzpatrick end
Shevlin was another great end, and
so was Campbell. but neither came up
TO Hinkey or Fitzpatrick. During part
OF the 1910 season Shevlin coached the
Yale end men, and after Fitzpatrick did
such remarkable playing in the games
against Princeton and Harvard some
one asked Shevlin whom he considered
the greatest end. He replied "Kilpat-
rick is a better end than I was; but.