The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
MONTY PICKS OUT ALL AMERICAN TEAM Gives Excellent Dope on
 Football Stars SOME COMPARISONS Is Ted Coy Really the Worlds Great est Gridiron Player? Monty
 Picks Team of Old Stars to
 Play and Says Horrors"
BY MONTY.


 yet having had time to make 24 hour
 aday study of the new rules and con-
 ditions, we steer clear of the long
 whiskered stuff.' So all that is left is
 the retrospect, and we accordingly
 nominate our unworthy self 'retros- 1 pedtician" that is. 1 Let's get egotistic and essay to pick
 an ll-American-All-Tim team. A
 bold sally this, to be sure, but we jump
 at the chance eagerly as a pleasure in stead of a task. Any effort to add, even | in feeble measure, one whit of glory to those brave warriors of the cleated
 shoe, who fought, bled and died" on
 the gory and glorious gridiron. is never amiss. In picking an All American All -Dime team, our efforts will be to select men who. given ample practice together, would prove the strongest possible com l bination under the present regims of fast and open play. Each man is con = | sidered, according to his ability when I in his prime.
 Here is our selection:
 | Ends-Kilpatrick, Yale; Shevlin, Yale. Tackles-McKay, Harvard Hogan. Yale.
 I Guards-Glass, Yale; Dewitt, Prince | ton.
 l Center-Heffelfinger Yale. l Standardization ersall, Chicago. Halfback-Week Columbia; He's
 ton, Michigan.
 Fullback-Coy, Yale.
 l For a second team, we hand it to
 these:
 Ends-Poe. Princeton; Wauseuka Carlisle Indians
 Tackles = Kinney, Yale; Cooney, | Princeton. 1 Guards-Fisher, Harvard; Pickarski, Pennsylvania.
 | Center-Holt, Yale.
 Quarter-Spracklin Brown. | HalIpacks - Pendleton, Princeton; Robinson, St Louis.
 | Fullback-Dibblee, Harvard | Thus the first team is made up of a majority of Yale men-SiX of them. The other five are divided one apiece be- l tween Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Co., lumbia and Michigan. The second tea m | contains Princeton, 2 Harvard, Yale.
 and 1 each from Pennsylvania, Carlisle Indians. Brown and St. Louis. On the first team there are two men from 1910 elevens-Kilpatricll and Mckay The second team has three last year men Sprackling, Pendleton and Fisher. As to the individual merits of each
 man. Fitzpatrick and Shevlin of Yale
 were two ends. as alike in style as could be found. Both were ten second men on the track and both tipped the scale
 at over 200 pounds. They were bull dogs of. the highest type. Poe of Prince ton was a marvel, but was much smaller than these two that he could hardly be selected before them. Wau seuka, the Indian, is given place on the second team because of his remark | lo., I f11-.. In the tackle position, Mckay and Hogan seem supreme. Both built near the ground, powerful in holding safe their sport in the line against the de- fensive tackle, fast runners on tackle around play, and bulwarks of defense.
 Both attained note in breaking through the opponent line and spelling plays
 before they were started Kinney, who was Hogan's side partner at Yale, Was much the same kind of man, but a trifle slow. Cooney, who explained
 Princeton in one of her greatest years, was of the steady, dependable sort that was always ready in a tight situation to deliver the goods, but was not as spectacular as the other three men toned.
 The guard position is about the hardest to get line on. It is hard to observe the work of these hard work : ing men in the middle of the pile. But nevertheless, two men stand out above the rest even here. They are Glass, one
 of the fiercest, biggest and strongest men that ever wore the blue of Eli, and De- Witt, the Princeton wonder. Dewitt
 would hardly get the place were it not for his ceIuorated toe, with which he punted and place. kicked farther con- sistently than any other man who ever lived. For this reason alone, he would have to be on the team As a guard, pure and simple, he was just little above the average in the major col leges. Fisher, Harvard's present cap- tain, and Pickarski, the Pennsylvania
 whirlwnd of 1904, both excelled De-
 Witt in strict line play, but must give
 way before his kicking prowess. At center there are two men who tower head and shoulders above all
 others These are Heffelfinger of the
 early nineties, who was the strongest
 point in what was one of the greatest
 lines Yale ever had. and Holt of Yale,
 1902 Old timers will say: "Heffel-
 finger was a guard" So he was, but
 records also tell us that on few oc-
 casions he played the pivotal position
 Heffelfinger, giant that he was, and
 with his almost miraculous speed for q
 man of his size, would probably make minor meat of the average line of now
 adays.
 
 position of all to fill. There has been
 a wealth of good men for the general
 ship job, but Walter Eckersall of Chi
 cago is admitted supreme among them
 all In addition to being one of the
 greatest open field runners in history,
 he was d fierce and certain tackler, and
 his drop kicking won him such undying
 fame that no more need be said about
 him. Sprackling of Brown who flashe |
 acroSS the football Armament like n
 comet last year, has earned his right to
 second choice. Before this season is
 over he may loom up as greater than
 "Eckie"
 Two halfbacks that are cracks can
 be named by any followers of the game,
 and supremacy In this position is prob
 ably more disputed than in any other After considering half a dozen who
 looked good enough, was named Harold
 Weekes, the wonder of the last team
 that ever flew the colors for Columbia.
 where the name Is no more. and Willie
 Heston of Michigan. Weekes would lose some of his value because of the rule barring hurdling, bu3 his dazzling and runs alone would entitle him to place. Heston was the best all around halfback that has trod gridron in recent years and would be equally as valuable under the new rules as he was under the old Pendleton of Princeton last years star is little too light to displace either Heston or Weekes.
 Many will wonder who is this Robin son of St. Louis. In his time, the first and second years of the forward pass, he executed long line throws of the elusive oval, the like of which probably will never again be seen on the grid iron. He is remarkable punter, good r l . I.