South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-01
PICKING LEADERS
NO CHILD'S PLAY
Season lust Closed Failed to
Produce a Man Who Stands
as Peer of AII-Many Can
didateS for Every Place.
By Prank G.. NIcnI,c


NEW YORK, Dec 1. - The 1914
football season has brought 10 the
fore many wonderful players yet from
out OF the lot not one has risen, who
can be the peer of all those who
play his pOsitiOn-nOt one stands out
unchallenged as the greatest football
player OF the year.
In other yaars it was different.
Nearly every season uncovered, at
least one player who stood head and
shoulders above every other man in
the game. Last year Z was Charles
Brickley. the marvellous Harvard full
back. The 1919 season developed a
number of great fullbacks and half
backs, yet not one could compare
with Brickley.
Glance back through the years and
you Will find that each brought out at
least one player whose fame is. un-
dying. HestOn, the great Michigan
halfDack, never Will be forgotten as
long as football is played. The fame
OF the poe boys of Princeton, Will live
as long as Princeton remains "A coll
lege. Who ever viii forget about Pat
O'Dea, the old Wisconsin player,
whose 60 yard drop kick against
Southwestern in 1898 still stands as
the longest ever made? O'Dea, as a
punter. never has known an equal
Nor has anyone come to the force in
the 1 years since he quit the game,
who can drop kick with such unerring
accGTScy or from such long distances
as O'Dea. He rarely failed to score
when he drop-kicked from within
the 50-yard line and his Dunts used to
average around 90 yards.
All Remember EckcrsalI.
Walter Eckersall, the Chicago quar-
terback. second only to O'Dea in kick
ing prowess. is another whose mem
min 10 III -,
ball world. Then there's Bulge"
Heffleringer. the giant Yale guard Of
the old days. Snake" Ames, the
greatest quarterback that Princeton
ever had, Ted Coy, the great Yale full
back OF few years ago, Sammy
White OF Princeton, who alone beat
Yale and Harvard in one year.
TTafford. the old Harvard star, who
PLAYED in 18S91S9O, is down in the
football records as having kicked a
greater number Of goals, from long
range. than any man that ever played
football on an eastern gridirOn. Bill
HOllenbach Of Pennsylvania, De Witt
of Princeton. Tom Shevlin of Yale,
Phil King of Princeton. Frank Hin
key of Yale. are names that never
Will be forgotten in the football
world. al
Looking over the 1914 field of can
didates that presents itself for ALL
American hOnors, one finds the great
est collection of likely looking half
backs and fullbacks that ever came
forth in one season to make a bid for
the hOnOrs And one finds. too that
there are at least a score of linesmen.
who qualified for the hOnOrs on either
All-Eastern, All-Western, or All
American teams
Picking Not Easy.
But not one man stands out much
stronger than another, and the task
that cOnfrOntS those who are to make
the all-team selections is harder this
year than il ever has been before, be-
cause there is "A fight.
The selection of a quarterback
must be made from the wonderful
Barrett of Cornell and the equally
wonderful Chez of Dartmouth Good
win of Washington K Jefferson, Rus
sell OF Chicago and Hughitt of Michi-
gan. In the fight for the center job
are Cruikshank of washington and
Jefferson, Des Jardien of Chicago.
ROsenthal OF Minnesota, Cool of Cor
nell. Peck of Pittsburgh and Rayns-
ford of Michigan.
In the backheld there are more
candidates this year than ever before.
The field comprises. Spiegel of Wash
ingtcn and jefferson. Bradlee of Har-
ward, Knowles of Yale. lie Gore of
Yale, Miller of Pittsburgh. Maulbetsch
of Michigan. Gray of Chicago. Aims
worth OF Yale. Phillippi of Cornell,
Whitney of Dartmouth. Dry of Pitts
burgh. Pogue of Illinois. Mahan of
Harvard, Francke of Harvard. SchO-
bingeT Of Illinois, Scion of Minnesota.
Chamberlain OF Nebraska. Eichen-
laub OF Notre Dame. and about 81
others. whose work has starred
throughout the season.
Good Guards Numerous
The guard candidates include:
Spears. the PAP pound husky from
Dartmouth, Mucke the 265 FOUNDER
from Wisconsin. Shenk of Princeton.
Chapman OF Illinois, Smith of Pitts
burgh, keefe OF NOtre Dame, Stew
art OF Illinois, ROuth OF Purdue. Ed
die Trenkman of Princeton. PennOck
OF Harvard. Conroy OF Yale. Walden.
the PAS FOUNDER also from Yale. Mum
sic OF Cornell. and Reese OF Pitts
burgh. and Younkins of Washington
and jefferson.
At the tackle positions there's Bal