New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Cornell, Navy, Rutgers, Princeton
and Dartmouth Also Find
Place on Team.
HARD TO PICK AND CHOOSE
Men Selected After Establishing
an Honor Roll for the
Various Positions.
By Herbert.

by I1Cl OCll.
Buildlns all-star football elevens mas
become a disease, and never has ii broken
opt in such vi1ulent form as this year
Never. also. let it ne said, have opinions
differed so widely in the choice Of play
ers deserving of recognition. As rule
the stars of the season stand out so
boldly that the critics have found II easy
10 agree on say six or eight OF the lead
crs. but such was not the case this year.
As has been pointed out in The Tribune
there is an excuse beyond precedent fo'
arranging one Of these mythical teams
This excuse lies in the fact that the ma
iority of those interested i'm any branch "i
sport love a ranking and welcome the or
portunity for comparison which ranking
gives.
Walter Camp. Of Yale, was the father
OF the AH-Amcrica team, so far as l can
recall. and as a rule his selections arc
accented as coming closer TO an Official
ranking than those OF other critics. Still.
the field is wide open, and it has been my
Measure to build an all Eastern eleven
so while am less in sympathy with the
idea than heretofore. the task is again
taken I'D with much interest and offered
purely as an opinion formed after seeing
all the leading elevcns i'm action and a
number of the smaller teams.
How the Players Were Chosen.
or necessity. the men who were particu-
larlv prominent in the more important
games of the year that is, when they
were supposed TO have reached their Top
form. are the ones to get the call The
purpose has been to pick out the players
most valuable to their respective teams
and M the same time to pick out the type
of PLAYERS best qualified 10 meet all the
requirements of latter-day football
As an example of just what this means
il NAV be pointed out that Captain HOG
sett and Red" Louden, the Dartmouth
ends. worked more effectively as a pair
this year than any two others on any
particular team II happens, however
that neither is chosen for the reason that
neither is just exactly the type OF end
particularly i'm physique, so necessary FOR
the ideal eleven.
should be emphasized that no effort has
been made to pick an All-American team
for the reason that | am in no way Ia
rniliar with the Western players OF
whom, from all account, there were a
number deserving of ranking with the
best. Further than that, it must he salu
that while | saw many elevens In acuoh
through the short season, not missing
single opportunity, t was Impossible 10
see all. and | reSret 10 say that Colgate
Pittsburgh, and Washington and Jene-
son were among those | missed. The rea-
son for this regret lies in the fact that all
three boasted two or more stars. who de-
serve greater recognition, perhaps thah
have been able to give them.
Without further preamble, then, Inc
Tribune's All-Eastern team for 1913 loi'
lows:
Fnd,-Nerrillat, West Point; Fritz. Cor
u,iI. Iackles--Bailn, Princeton; iaioo,'
Yale. Gusrds-Brown. AnnapJ,ns' nuaHer.
back-Prichard. West Point: Hai.nac cs,th
Wahan Harvard; whitney, DARTMOUTH
Fullback-Brickley, Harvard.
Harvard. which went through the sea-
son without defeat and earned the So
called championship gets only two men
on the all-star eleven. This in measure
reflects TO the credit of the Crimson, as
showing that team effort rather than an
dividual brilliancy counted largely In the
clean string OF victories. Yale and Wes'
Point get two places eacn' whlle Dsr''
mouth. Cornell. Princeton and Annapohs
must be satisfied with one each