The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-14
Minor Colleges
 Have Many Stars
Players Like Sprackling of Brown and Miller of Penn State Would be Wecomed by Big Four

x Tn the odSC alone there are TdICS or players, unknown to the general run of football fans, but who, if given the chance, probably would make good with any of the group from which the eastern champion eleven is invariably drawnn. Some of them having made their brief appearances in the big arena, have already been forgotten. Others still finger in the limelight.
 There isn't doubt that Sprack- ling, quarterback and captain Of Brown, could grab any quarterback exceptions. Because they walloped the everlasting. daylights out of Yale last season and came back this fail with a triumph over Penn and a stiff game against Harvard. the Bears Inow give precedence to none But it wasn't so long ago that the Providence team was one of the mi nors. That it has climbed out of that class and is but step outside the hampionship ring is due almost en- tirely tn Sprack1ing. By his play ing and the effect of his playing on his mates he has made Brown a team feared by every eleven it goes against. The development of Sprackling will probably have a good. effect on Brown teams for years to come.
 There are only two quarterback jobs in the east that he couldi not have. Yale, with Arthur Howe, and Penn State, with Miner, might think a long time before assigning Sprack- | ling to the position, yet at Yale the appearance of just such a man as he might result in Howe being shift l ed to one of the halfback positions. Miller, of Penn State, occupies all most as high a rank. Unfortunate 1 ly, Penn State does not travel in such polite society as Brown. But in the Penn game Miller was a revelation He not only proved himself a master I field general, but his running, both from position and in carrying back i punts. equalled anything seen on Franklin field in years.
 His berth is one of the two that Sprackling would have to fight for Had Harvard either of these young men, haSf the worries that are now afflicting Percy Haughton would be forgotten. i Both are great field generals; both get every last ounce of power out of l their teams; both are deadly accurate l in hurling forward passes about; both can kick and both are sure death on
 punts, with speed and lodging abil- 1 ity enough to run their backs yards | further than the average quarter.
 It is something of a. coincidence that Brown and Penn State, with two 1 of the greatest quarterbacks in the country, should also have two of the livery best ends. AShbaugh, of Brown, | Sprackling for the success Brown has achieved with the forward pass, and Capt Very, of Penn State, works al- most as we'll with Miller. These two;
 like their teammates, could grab reg
 ular positions on any team in the East.
 Two other quarterbacks of more than average ability-Capt. Fogg, of
 Syracuse. and Welsh. of Carlisle
 have been playing considerable foot hQ e VI .le.I, 1,
 like 100 yards. for a touchdown in
 the Penn-Carlisle game last week, and was so successful in picking the
 weak spots in the Penn defense that
 he was never once forced to reveal the full strength of his team's attack. F'oyg earned his spurs against Mich 1gan, his generalship going long way toward enabling Syracuse to hold a better football team. to tie score. lie Is not as artful runner as [ Sprackling, Miller or Welsh on bro- I ken" field, but he is a sturdier line pluneer. running from his position. |, Haifback Thorpe, the mainstay of
 the Carlisle Indians, is rated one of the best halfbacks in the East Some
 critics have labeled him the greatest CT. J. Wheelock, his running mate I is almost as effective. If anything, he Is a harder man to play on an end run, but does not hit the line as
 
 so good kicker.
 I A substitute halfback on the Will Hams team. Ainslee by name, is on record as having made the longest run of the year in a game against a big eleven. In the Cornell-Wii- Hams clash he grabbed up a kickoff
 on his own five-yard line and ran 1o5 I yards to a touchdown. Only once ill the history of football has that run
 been equaled at Cornell, and not this
 year at all on any gridiron.
 Lafayette has two candidates Neither has been seen around New York this year, but competent crit ics think highly of both. Kelly, a giant of man, with an elevation i'll
 excess of six feet, is not only a rare good tackle, but one of the best punt CTS in the East as we'll
 Early in the year Kelly got in
 kicks ranging from fifty-five to sixty five yards in every game, and he
 hasn't gone back any in the past
 month. Spiegel, his teammate, is said to be another 6prackling in go- | ing down an open field.
 | Still another is floating, around who would be welcomed by the Harvard
 coaches like a million dollars if he l were eligible to play for the Crimson l varsity. Unfortunately this young man, one Brickley, is but a freshman,
 and if he kicks four more field goals
 in one game twill be. for the benefit
 of the Cambridge cubs only. | There are many mufe-West Point
 and Annapolis are both still in the
 running for the title, and anyhow | could hardly be classed with the mi
 norS. Both Army and Navy,
 though outside the classic ring. are both fairly loaded down with high class football players who never can hope to achieve the fame that would be theirs if they were playing with
 Yale. Harvard, Princeton or Pennsyl- vania.