The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-31
COLLEGE FOOTBALL GOOD
TRAINING FOR BUSINESS
Walter Camps All-Star Team
Good Basis for Comparing
General Results.
ALL OF PLAYERS SUCCESSFUL

chicago Jan 31.--Football players
ricked by Walter Camp as the eleven
Greatest opponents of gridiron sport In
sho twenty years history of the pres
ont American game almost without ex-
centlon have arisen to places of prom
ironce and respect i'm the business and
commercial world. The occupations
and life work chosen by these men are
martial REPUTATION of arguments oft
on advanced by opponents of. college
athletics. that the sacrifice of time nee
essary TO attain success in the siren
mons competition of American collegi-
ate sports units young men for life
If usefulness thereafter. Supporters
Of athletics, and football in particular
always have maintained that the deci-
Min and observance of strict training
rnles demanded of gridiron players is
an excellent preparation for the tasks
TO follow in the outside world.
Appended is a summary of the pres
ent occupations of the eleven men
named by Camp on the "All-Time ALL
American " football team:
Frank A. Hnkey, end; Yale captain
of 1894, 1895. Engaged in mining in
lola. Kan, with Jim" Rodgers, the
Yale captain of 1898. Hinkey left the
east three years ago because of i'll
health. He returns to spend three or
four weeks with the Yale eleven each
fall.
Fish Works With Father.
Hamilton Fish, tackle: Harvard cap
tain of 1903. Now i'm business with his
father in New York city.
w. w. Heffelfinger, guard: Repub-
llcan leader i'm Minnesota. Swung the
republican party of that state two
years ago for Taft. He is secretary
and treasurer of the North Star Whole
sale Shoe company. He has been
prominent in republican politics for
years.
Germany" Schultz, center: Did not
finish college work at Michigan. Lives
with his brother at Fort Wayne, Ind
Has been employed as football coach.
Truton Hare, guard; Member of
law firm of Reilly, SoGge & Hare of
Philadelphia. Hare came from a fam
lily prominent socially and married
daughter of n Philadelphia millionaire.
At college he was noted for writing
and ecturing in French. He is now
writing a series of college stories i'm
four volumes, entitled. "The Fresh
man. THE Sophomore" 1.-THE Junior"
and ''rhe Senior" They are supposed
to deal with his own college career.
He lives at Radnor, a suburb of Phila-
delphia.
John De Witt. tackle: Was grad
uated from Princeton i'm 1904. Now i'm
New York city in brokerage business. /
He won the Yale game and champion
ship for Princeton i'm the fall of 1908 |
by kicking a goal from placement from
the fifty-yard line in the last minute
Of play.
Thomas l.. Shevlin, end: Yale cap
tain in 1906. Assistant To his father, !
who is in the lumber business. Shevlin |
has been representing his father on
the Pacific coast most Of the time for !
the last three years.
Walter Ii. Eckersall, quarterback:
After leaving the University of Chica-
go ,Eckersall became connected with |
the sporting department of the Chi
cago Tribune, specializing in football
and athletics.
Harold IL. Weeks, halfback: stock !
broker in New York since leaving CO.
lNHts.1
luhpus He was left fortune by his
grandmother, some of which was lost |
III The failure of Thomas e. Post, "a firm
with which he was connected.
William Heston, halfback: Now en-
gagged in the billiard business with |
william Donovan, pitcher of the III
gers, in Detroit.
T. Coy, fullback: Captain of Yale
III 1903 and head coach for next sea-
son.