The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-25
BACK FIELD men
SEASONS STARS
Warriors Behind the Line
Have Great Opportunity
This Fall.

Held, year" in football. Practically
every new man of any real promise
whatever developed this far, in the
east at least. Is n member of the ball
carrying corps. It seems certain that
when the curtain shall have rung
down at the end Of November, the
fellow stamped as the seasons great
est gridiron warrior will be one of
the quartet behind the line. Yale.
Harvard. Princeton and Pennsylvania.
the big four. all have their one par
the fore at the outset.
During the last decade the bright
special lights Of the several seasons
have hailed from almost very POSI-
ton. Last year he was, an end. the
one. only and peerless Sam White Of
Princeton, who picked up fumbled
balls and galloped over half the field
length in scoring victories over Yale.
Harvard and Dartmouth. The pre-
ceding season he was a quarterback.
Earl sprackling of Brown. who prac-
team, tore off open field runs Of daz-
cling brilliancy. his greatest achieve
ment being an almost single-handed
defeat of Yale. In 1909 Jack Kill
patrick, a typical Yale style of 200
pound end, was the sensation. his
wing being totally impregnable all
year and his work in getting down
under kicks putting him among the
greatest ends is history.
The season of 1908 brought forth
the man considered by many the
greatest that ever played. He was a
fullback. the tremendous Ted Coy.
OF Yale. the best all-around kicker
of his year and the most Powerful
line %pulverizer within memory. That
this year will offer a man even close
~ comparable with him Is not to be
expected. Another fullback was he
star of. 1908 in Sam Kennard of Har-
yard. who made a field goal that beat
Yale. Walter Eckersall, Chicago's
marvelius quarterback of 1906. was
In a class by himself as a drop kick
open field. Il sturdy interferer for his
backs and an unfailing general in d.
recting the attack.
Tom Shevlin, q human combination
Of battering ram. stone wall and hull
let, who featured every Yale game
In 1905, was a greater end ever than
the later Fitzpatrick because of the
fearful speed with which he hurled
his 200 pounds down the field. In
1904 the guard position had its day.
John De Witt. certainly the most SEN
EAylOudt anu one VI IkO " Sopooio
lfnemen in the annals of the game.
held the center of the stage. His long
run a la Sam White. followed by a
46-yard goal after a fair catch, hum
'hiedrthe .Yaio:and. won the Tigers the
title.
Willie Heston, q halfback Of the ir-
resistible, keep-on-going. tear-them-
them-apart sort, win the 1903 honors
for Michigan. Now. coming to the
first year OF the decade. we Ind Co
lumbia possessing the top rung man:
halfback and hurdler. wnose fame
has lived in New York's big university
these ten years, though the game he
helped make. great has been under
faculty ban.
Surveying the entire ten years. we
md three ends. two quarterbacks. n
guard, two fullbacks and two half
backs in the conspicuous class. In
other words. there are four linemen
and six backs. The line seems to
stand little chance Of catching up any
pointing to the back field increasing
its majority.
The quartet which has bounded to
the fore included Flynn Of Yale. Hard
wick Of Harvard, Fred Trenkman Of
Princeton. and Harrington Of Penn
sylvania. OF the bunch. Hardwick
and Flynn took the best. with any
edge in favor Of Flynn. The latter
played his first varsity game for Yale
against Syracuse a week ago and was
two-thirds Of the attack as well as a
he scored two Of Yale's three touch
downs and still another which was
disallowed because the officials con-
sidered that he hurdled one tackler.
All Of them were or runs of between
twenty and fifty yards. At Yale they
are booming Lefty Flynn as a second
Ted Coy. That, to be sure, is going
q. little too far. but after seeing his
great performance Of last week, we
can not do otherwise than declare
him to appear at least the esual Of
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