Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-01-20
GREATEST STARS
Of The GRlOlRON
FORMER "BIG FOUR" ATHLETES
PICK 20 MEN FROM LAST
TWO DECADES.
YALE HEADS LIST
Old Eli Institution 10 Given Eaens
Men In the List Of Celebrities
Selected as the Best IN
In the Game.

In the Game.
There have been many wonderful
football knights keyed up to grana
concert form In many parts OF Amerf
ca. hut picking the twenty best play
ers OF all time from the college mem.
hers or the big Four" implies tnat
many who have been famous Will not
ha found in the selections and tnat
all.American members Of crack teams
will be eliminated in many instances
and that the player as player, not as
memher of a team, will be chosen.
Seven athletes, all members Oh
"Big Four teams, the colleges pelns
penn. Princeton, Yale and Harvard,
sat down at the Racquet club ana
chose the best men Of their RESPECTIVE
colleges and then made the following
consensus cast for the twenty:
Yale-Haffelfinge Brown, Snevnn'
Class Hinkey, Coy, Hogan and But
terworth. II.
Princeton-Dewitt, Poe and King.
Haryard-Graydon, Cutting, DAILY
Campbell and Wendell. ~,
Penn-Stevenson Hare, smlth'
Brooke and Hollenback.
This gives Yale eight players
Princeton three, Harvard four ana tle
University of Pennsylvania five on the
list of twenty stars of all time, wen
dali Of Harvard, is the only 1911 play.
err who is picked on that team, ana
Wendell was missed by many or the
critics On their all-American selec-
tions, but the graduates were OF the
oninion that he was the best line
hitting halfback known to the game
and that he was equally as efecuVe
on the defense as he was puncner
of holes-when he was carrying lhe
hall The only two men who compar'
ed with him, in their opinion, were
Ted Coy OF Yale and Andy Smith OF
Penn.
Yals's stars Lead.
aHeftelfnger was a Yale lineman at
Yale, a giant in stature a man "
enormous strength; Gordon brown
came ten years later, and ne was 'ne
same style player as Henelnhgel,
Butterworth was a fullback, las.
dodging player who was seen at MS
hest in 1894; Tom Shevlin was an end'
a 1SO FOUNDER, who came 10 niah
like thunderboldt and was seldom
boxed by the tackles; Ed CLASS was
lineman, who, according to Nike Mur-
uhy. is the strongest man ne mas ever
seen: Frank Hinkey is regarded at
Yale as the peer of all the olue play
ers and he was an end. At Yale every
year a picture of Hinkey IN actlon Is
shown the players just on the eve Oh
game. It depicts Hinkey In all OF
his ferocity going headlong under the
famous Harvard flying wedge. o.n
Hogan was lineman, vert1able Knot
| of might, who was rooted in the year
as strongly as an oak tree 100 years
old. while Ted Coy is accounted the
best of the line busters" and kicker
who had few equals and no superlors
At spiral booting This makes four OF
the Yale team linemap, two ends ana
two fullbacks.
Dewitt a Wonder.
John Dewitt of Princeton, was
player who did all that any man could
do to beat Yale. AL Sharpe, the old
Yale back says the entire Yale team
could not fatigue him, a pretty compll-
ment and true one. Dewitt was
lineman on the defense, dropped back
and ran with the ball on the offense at
least half of the time, and did all OF
the Tigers punting. Poe was quar-
terback. a flash of speed and true 70
the traditions of his family. He seer
ed on and beat Yale with kick and
won again in another year by snatch
ing ND the tumble. King was lead
er, a player, a great catcher OF punts
and splendid runner with the ball.
Graydon of Harvard, was fullback
the men who lugged the ball in the
crimson tandem play. Few men could
deal the Jolt he delivered to the line
and remain throughout the game:
DAILY was a quarterback, the best that
Harvard ever had. He could drop
kick. pilot team, and was great
runner of kicks. Campbell was an
end. He was terror to quarterbacks
who had to catch punts, for he threw
them 40 hard that they could seldom
stand more than three or four of his
diving tackles. Wendell was a jug,
gernaut, who tore apart every line
he faced. Stocky and with back as
broad as a hack. he just waded
through all that faced him. His gains
were about four yards to the rush.
stevenson Best Quarterback
I Vincent Stevenson of Penn was
probably. the best quarterback who
ever stood in togs. He was general
on both attack and defense. He was
sensational runner with the ball,
and while he weighed but lao pounds
he often flung a 2O0-pound lineman
in heap or hurled directly over his
head. Hare was lineman, half
back, punter and captain of Penn