The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-07
CAMPS SELECTION LIKE
THAT MADE BY SPORTING
WRITER'S IN TEN PLACES
Michigan Men Wondering Why
Thomson, Craig and Conklin
Didn't Land Somewhere.
|DEV OREIS SURPRIS E
All But One of Last Years Back
field Are Forced Out, or Into
the Minors.
DEv oREIS SURPRIS E

There isn't great deal OF surprise
in the west that Michigan didn't get
a place on the first All-American team
picked by Walter Camp. There ISN'T
great deal OF surprise, even, tha'
moi western player secured posi-
ton on the first string.
But there is a great deal OF amaze
ment when il is discovered that stan
Wells succeeded In making only the
third team and that he Is the onU
Michigan man to get place IN any
OF the SO positions Camp had 10 NIL
Wells is placed at halfback POSI-
ton. and IL is some comfort 10 see
that Mercer, who was touted as an
Au.American fullback. is STAINS run
ming mate. When players OF the call
Der of this great Mercer. who was an
All. American man last year. are
showed away down into the tnird
bunch and transferred from their po-
sitions to those they haven't played,
II Is an indication that there Is some
pretty classy material In the front
row.
Michigan adherents are trying to
figure out Just why II is that Bottles
Il
line bucking attracted attention all
over the country. IL Is no doubt true
that his poor showing In the Cornel
game and the fact that he was unable
! TO play against Pennsy on account OF
the death Of his brother WORKED
against him.
Jimmy Craig. Il was thought. ought
10 have gotten place at hair on the
second team or at worst. on the tnlrd.
His aggressiveness and clever open
field running. won for him many
friends among football critics.
Capt. Conklin was highly regarded
by western men, and many who
chose All.Western teams gave him
a place on the line. Brute" Pontius
was another Wolverine, who, 1t was
thought. might have some show 10
| place. as was Shorty MCMILLAN.
CAMPS selection agrees consistent
| ly with the majority choice OF the SIX
! New York sport writer's who chose
/ team. Sunday. The choice OF white
/ and Hart OF Princeton, was unani-
nous. as was that Of Dalton or the
Navy. other choices were as FOL
lows: Fisher, Harvard, 4; Ketcham,
Yale, 3: Dun, Princeton, 4; Bomeis-
Ter. Yale, 3: Wendell, Harvard, b;
and Thorpe. Carlisle, 3.
The big divergence OF opinion be
tween Camp and other writers Is In
one OF the tackles. He chose Devore
OF West Point, whom no one else ap-
pears to have thought OF. Devores
playing. according to Camp, was not
| brilliant, but II was consistent, and
Devore had that football instinct"
which Camp much admires.
| Smith OF Harvard, was the choice
! of Eve of the papers for an end posi-
ton but Camp relegates Smith to the
second team Scully, a Yale tackle,
and Bluthenthal, a Princeton center,
got three choices in the New York
papers but they, too. have to content
themselves with second string jobs on
Camps aggregation.
All but one OF the backs and one
end OF last years AllAmerican team,
who were playing this season. al
placed in the second and third .
visions or dropped out altogether tJ
make way for new blood.
Howe, OF Yale. last years second
team quarter. and Sprackling OF
Brown, last years first team man, ex-
change places. Stan Wells makes
way for Sammy White and Bomeisler
at end. Mercer loses his fullback Job
to Dalton, Navy, and Rosenwald, Min
nesota. makes the second team, fore
ing the Pennsy star into the third
string. Pendleton OF Princeton. who
was In a quarterback position for
Princeton part ef-the year. loses his
Job at half Wendell OF Harvard re-
tains the other -hsifftback job. -
| All.American teams are but matters
OF opinion, but happy is the lad who
stands well today in Camps opinion. {,