Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-23
SPORT
FINEST. PLAYER
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better bunter, and many may think
that Brickleyn another crimson man,
was better drop kicker, but neither
of these combined the two qualifica-
tons In the sopinion of the writer
even Brickley was not nearly so dead
~ as a drop kicker. He had a better
line to hold for him than Thorpe, yet
the Indian had a habit of ,booting the
ball over the cross bar with alarm
ing, frequency. As a line breaker
Thorpe was no SLOUGH either, for he
was. a hard man to bring to the
ground. So summing everything up
Jim" Thorpe appears to have pos
sessed about every quality necessary
to make player close to perfection.
Therefore the Indian is chosen as the
star of them all, without further argu-
ment or rebuttaL .Ess j.
ketchann a Great Center IS s4.s
After Thorpe, the one man who
stood out in his position as the best
on the gridiron, one about whom there
should be no argument, was Ketcham,
the Yale center He outplayed every
one that was pitted against him by
large sized margin. He made his job
more than the mere necessary cog in
the machinery which so many centers
do. Ketcham was always worrying
his rivals, and many a bad pass was
made by his opponent through Keteh-
ans aggressive work. Furthermore
Ketcham was down the field often
under kicks faster than his ends, max
ing tackles in the open, and when he
hit man that same person usually
went down to stay. Parmenter, OF
Harvard, was next to him. The Grim
son player was steady and aggres-
sive and far better than Bluetenthal,
of Princeton, who was picked year
ago. The Tiger pivot had bad sea-
son and scarcely figured among the
first half dozen centers. -.
Having chosen the two who stand
out supreme, the rest are close
enough to furnish quite diversity
of opinion. FELTON,, the best punter
in the East, earned a place for him.
self by that one quality. AS an end
player he was not spectacular, but he
was always dependable. Bomeisler,
of Yale, was one of the best ends
seen since the days of Fitzpatrick and
| Shevlin, of Yale, and many figure
him almost as good as either of them.
The one thing against Bomeisler was
| that he was too susceptible to in
| jury. For this reason Bomeisler was
not as much use to his team as he
| might have been had he been rugged
enough to go through a full cam
paign.
L ~ Of lIo1n nd
! Harvard, were good enough 60 be
/ tackles on the alistar team, but they
1 did not stand aIgreat deal above many
other men playing the position. Brown,
of the Navy, was the best looking
| guard in the East and was an easy
| man to pick for that position. There
were many other capable players in
that position, but Pennock, Of Har-
ward, in the opinion of the writer
should be given the call for his
steady, efficient playing all the year.
/ Many Good Backs
Coming down to the backs to run
with Thorpe there were so many
| good ones that it is hard to make
distinctions. Brickley. of Harvard, tC
be sure, was a star of the first water
4 UcCduSS vi HIS uIOp hIChIhS anu udl
line hitting and heavy fighting quail
ties, so there should be little Ques
ton, about picking him. 1t seems q
! shame to leave off some of the really
/ fine backs of the 1912 crop, but as
| there is only room for one other half
| back "Hobey" Baker, of Princeton, Is
1.-THE choice He played dashing, spec.
! taCular football all season expect in
the game against Harvard, and thai
! day it was more the fault OF his team
than through any lack of individual
ability that he did not show better.
One could put slip Of paper in q
| hat with the names of several quarter
! backs written thereon and make nc
| mistake in picking blindly to get a
! high class man. Miller, of Penn
| State, who was the runner up for the
! honors last year, was just as good as