Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
FOOT BALL STARS
ARE PLENTIFUL
Many Brilliant Players De-
veIoped in Each Section
of Country.
CANNOT SELECT CHAMPION
BY COMPARATIVE SCORES
So Many Good Teams, Too, That Sat-
isfactory Ranking Is
Impossible.
BY WALTER CAMP.


@}ye,p overwhelming The writer has
had almost conclusive evidence, through
his correspondents, that there are at
least twenty-four men who could not
possibly be left off an all-American
team with justice, and having seen the
majority of these men in action, he can
readily forgive those who are ready TO
subscribe to this conclusion. Now such
an array warrants description, ana
perhaps if one begins farthest away
from the eastern seaboard. the playing
will be recognized as all the more re-
markable.
Ont on the Pacific coast, Lutz of the
Oregon Agricuiturals, formerly captain
of Pomona, was the star of the year in
northwest foot ball. but Miller, two
hundred-pound halfback, came close 10
him Foster of Occidental was a sip.
perry man to stop. and MADE a iot VI
trouble in the game against Soutnei Il
California. Other good men on We d
cific coast were Center Clark OF WASH
ington state; Groninger, tackle. leano'
Huntley, Oregon Aggies, END: ohleI'
fullback, Washington, ana Hoo'ei'
quarter of w hltman
Working toward the middle west theIe
are two men in the Nebraska pack
fjels almost as phenomenal as any VINO
have trod the gridircn- These are SnaIn-
berlain and Rutherford, fast men Cnam-
berlain weighs 1856 pounds and Ruther-
ford 1874 pounds, and they are so good
that one of our .ormer Yale backneio
varsity men says that Ted COY at ms
best was never in any way equal 10
Chamberlain" A story is told that TINS
same Chamberlain is coming to one of
the eastern universities next year, IN
which case, two years from now we shail
have an opportunity OF verifying tnls
comparison. Then in the middle west
ri rbac cir Of illinois,
team that won the conference champion
ship. and he is clever little general and
very fast. Pogue. also of Illinois, is
star back. and slippery as an eel Scion OF
the University O Minnesota, former end
transferred to the backfield, besides his
running abilities, is one of the best
kickers in the country. There Is High
tower of Northwestern, a star en- weak
team; Spiegel and Fleming of Washing
ton and Jefferson, two men any team
would be proud to have behind its line.
also Talman of Rutgers, former
guard, now power in the back neid:
Then there are Miller and Hastings OF
Pittsburgh and Toolan of Williams,
who found no trouble in threading the
Princeton line in their tie game: Tnere
is Westcott of Tufts, whom Harvard
not find or get. Knowles of Yale is
one of the sturdiest defensive men and
preventer of forward passes Wilson,
the Yale quarter, is another powerful
There is MauIbetsch of Michigan. the
hardest man to stop on the grld1ron
this season. on account of his peculiar
low-dodging run Cahali of Lehlgh'
who. for field goal kicking and all
round running work is unsurpassed
There is Capt. Prichard of West Point,
q fine quarterback. and Oliphant, the
old Purdue man, but who is now rep
either quarter or half equally we'll
There is Barrett of Cornell. the quar-
ter and king pin" of the lthacans'
general work. There is Logan OF Har-
ward. who ran the Cambridge machine
of Haughton'S as an experienced chauI-
feur would drive his car.
Mahan O. Harvard and LIE Gore OF
Yale are two of the hardest men to
stop on this years teams; equally able
in punting, Mahan. cool, calculating
runner, while in forward passing Le-
Gore stands out above all men of the
year in his proficiency in handling the
bail. Those who have seen him shoot
the ball like a rifle bullet and pick his
man in any field, even though the
tacklers are upon him. believe he
thinks 1t base ball Then when they
watch him gather in a wild iaterai
pass somewhere out in the air. by plac-
ing his hand out against it and balanc-
ing the ball for a moment on his ing
ers before he brings it in to him, they
are convinced that there is some I'M
canny understanding between the
leather spheroid and the Yale back
Then there is Chez of Dartmouth,
quarterback who has speed. tackling
who has the physique to last straight
through a season. playing a good share
of the game himself.
Down in the south there is Gooch of
Virginia. quarter: Paddock, the quar-
terback of Georgia, also Tolley Of
Sewanee. both good men. while in the
backfeld Barrett and Littlefield of
Texas. Everett of A. NJ. and Fouts of
pax. of
ball of Mississippi A. NJ. Taylor of
North Carolina, Curry and Skies of
Vanderbilt and Hart of Auburn form
a galaxy of stars
To come to the 1inenlen. Balm of
Princeton and Talbot of Yale stand
out as captains and tackles on teams
that had inexperienced lines apd con-
sequently these two had to bear a
large brunt of the work, and they did
1T to the admiration of all the spec
tators- The latter was laid up for
three weeks of his season. but fought
heroically in his final games.
Then one could make up another half
dozen teams with tackles from Trum-
bull of Harvard. Weyand of West
ter of Syracuse. Cochran of Michigan,
Muck and Keller of Wisconsin. Pud-
nessee. vandegraf of Alabama and
man of Illinois is the star lineman of
the west And there is Pennock of
Harvard. Patterson of Washington and
Jefferson, Munsick of Cornell, Spears
of Dartmouth. not to mention Talman
of Rutgers, who, although playing this
year in the backfeld. has always
looked so good at guard as to make
him high choice there in any company.
Then there is man in Texas, the
captain of the University of Texas
team. Jordan, who is one of the best
guards in the country. There also is
Thigpen of Auburn and Spurlock of
the Mississippi A and NJ. For center
there is Des Jardien of Chicago the
all-American of last year: McEwan of
West Point. Tandy of North Carolina
Rainsford of Michigan, Rosenthal of
Minnesota. all sterling performers.
Al ends. Scion of Minnesota already
has been mentioned as backfield man.
but his original position was end.
Then there is Brann of Yale, the cley-
crest receiver of forward passes on
the field With these are Overesch Of
the Navy: Squier of Illinois, O'Hearn
OF Cornell. Hardwick of Harvard, one
of the best al-round men and lie
Scion. a man who can play in the
backfeld as well. There also is Cool.
idge of Harvard. Bowl of Washington
and Jefferson. Cherry of Ohio State
Graves of Illinois. Higgins of Penn
sylvania State. Teller of Dartmouth
and Scuter of Georgia Tech
In the following paragraphs an eff
fort is made to show just what some
of the more important teams did in
their big games The results battle
any attempt to rank these teams in
any proper order. The time has come