New-York tribune., 1912-12-04
WALTER CAMP NAMES
AlL-AMER|CA ELEVEN
Eight Colleges Represented on
AII-Star Team, Harvard
Getting Three Men.
NO PLACE FOR ST0RER
Ketcham, Bomeisler and Thorpe
Honored for Second Year in
Succession by Yale's
Football Strategist.

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Walter Camp Yale's athleti mentor and
football strategist. has named his all
American eleven for Golfers Weekly"
of December 7. Butler, OF Wisconsin, is
the only Western player TO find a place on
the first team, he being at one tackle, but
| four other men from that section are in
cluded on his second and third teams.
Harvard has the strongest representa-
| tion on the all-star eleven. with three
| players-Felton. end Pe1nock, guard. and
| Brickley. halfback but Storer, one OF the
best tackles Of the year, and Hardwick.
the dashing halfback, are not considered
worthy of a place even on the third team
Eight colleges are represented on the
first eleven and nineteen on the three.
much broader field than usual. Ketcham
Bomeisler and Thorpe are the only play
ers who were honored a year ago. The
first team Is made up as follows:
Ends FELTON,, of Harvard. and Bomeis-
ler of Yale; tackles. Englehorn, OF Dart
month, and Butler, of Wisconsin; guards.
Pennock, of Harvard. and Logan. OF
Princeton; centre. Ketcham, of Yale; (;
quarterback. Crowther, OF Brown; half
backs. Brickley. Of Harvard, and Thorpe,
of Carlisle, and fuliback, Mercer, Of Penn
sylvana.
The second and third elevens are as
follows:
Second Fleven-Ends, Very, OF Penn
State. and Hoeffel. of Wisconsin; tackles,
Probst, of Syracuse. and Trickey, Of Iowa !;
guards, Corney, Of Yale. and Kulp. Of
Brown: centre. Parmenter, of Harvard ;
quarterback, Pazzetti. of Lehigh; half
backs. Morey, Of Dartmouth, and Nor
gren. of Chicago. and fullback, Wendell
of Harvard.
Third Eleven-Ends, Ashbaugh, or
Brown. and Jordan. Of Bucknell; tackles.
Devore of West Point, and Shaughnessy,
of Minnesota: guards, Bennett, Of Dart
mouth and Brown, of Annapolis; centre,
Bluethenthal, of Princeton; quarterback,
Bacon. of Wesleyan; halfbacks, Hardage.
of Vanderbilt, and H. Baker of Princeton.
and fullback. Pumpelly, Of Yale.
In referring to the new rules and the
season as whole Mr.. Camp says:
The rules were made and based on a
very careful study OF the situation whicn
for a year or so had made II Impossible
for a team, although somewhat better
than an opponent. to win unless It's supe-
riority was tremendously marked. Ihose
tired of seeing neither team able to snow
superiority or, at any rate, TO register
that superiority on the score board.
Ii was promised that these rules Wouio
do away with this condition, would not
increase injuries and would make game
that would be interesting TO spectator ana
player alike Surely this season ma, mas
proved the merit OF this contention: The
casualty list is small, the interest was
never greater, the game appeals to the
players and spectators and not Tor years
has there been so little criticism: -.
If the football season OF 1911 was one OF
weird happenings, what term Is there leIt
TO describe the season OF 1927
Beginning with alterations in rules OF
greater import than any changes tndt nau
heen made tor several seasons. September
found coaches and players inclined at nrst
10 consider but one point OF these many
alterations as OF any grsat sa;t;o SaGo ot, ~ an
extra down in which to gain the neces-
sary ten yards.
IL is safe to say that nine out Of ten
people thought this change would In its
results he confined almost exclusively TO
the line plunging game. IL was olIlCul. .
10 make the average football man see that
this alteration would be much i'e.S more isrv Siv
reaching than this. as 1t would lneVltaoiSs
affect the generalship not only of each
individual game but also of the campaign
itself In the old game OF tnres tLlaS v u ~ =
advance the ball the quarter back was
practically limited TO one down; eltner
for experimental purposes or 10 pace n,s
opponents in such position on tne au @
vance as to render his second play more
The condition Of the extra down, instead
of adding therefore, only aoout 70 per
cent OF the possibilities 10 ,,,e tne tao heined
the quarterback position, really heIpeo
nearly 100 per cent, for IL enabled MN 20
take chances of experiment on TWO oowns
instead Of one down ana Wnen f 'nefH me un,in.
lied forward pass it still further increaseu
the auarterback's opportunity 70 sho"
rcneralship and headwork - una
,;ten again, and along the same nne'
enc a new development, which. although
anticipated by but few, proved IN acrusi ucs
playing to be of cardinal lmporIancv
In fact. while the new game at first
hIush seemed TO encourage very ma
terIally line plunging because IL olo actu-
ally offer q possibility 10 team vi so,s %
Two and a half to three yards at dow
straight down the field one half or ever
fwo-thirds of its length for touchooMn
n brought with that possibility core
spending penalty concbes oi eHhd had counted
When il came to actual games 1nls .i Ii,
feet became still more marked; p! n, et,
G.et week in November II had pee,
shown not by one game. but, several
that a team starting off 10 pouno lts way
Sown 10 the opponents goal hne Dy sheei o
A-ce was indeed not only apie " 49, O.
romplish this march once. but In soinf
cases twice or even three times: ana Sc
cure by this means what seemed 10 1s
con manding lead by the END OF the HIS'
taif Then came the penalty. for teams
having done this against elevens theli
equal in strength found themselves IN 1t tnt
nos;tion OF a man who undertakes to ruI
mile race and completes the first nall
In record-breaking half.mile time. ne
NAV have a lead over his opponents a.
that point in the race. but ne goes 9acs y
fast during the last half-miie ana
,lkelv 10 he defeated by the time the tape
,s reached The scores Of these hrs'
halves ranged from or 10 points to ever
as much, in one case. as q, and yer III, ~,
feams with such leads were. eventually
defeated. their opponents scoring mere IN ht