New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
Wealth of Material Makes
Task of Selection
Difficult.
ONLY ONE ADELPHl
PLAYER ON ELEVEN
Combination Found for Strength
in All Forms of Attack
and Defence.
By FRANK F. O'NEILL.


tomary letter is due the lads VINO wore
the colors on the field.
II is a task Of some difficulty TO
select eleven. or twenty-five, boys, as
the writer has done, out Of the wealth
of material which is available. II does
not follow that the boys chosen could
he welded into the most powerful team,
but all have shown marked ability
throughout the season. Consistency
has won them their places. Many
there were who flashed in one game or
another and then dropped back into
the ranks of the stragglers, to win
prominence no more.
In seasons passed. half n dozen boys
or more stood out head and shoulders
above their fellows. IL was easy 10
place them on the teams. This year,
however. there are almost that number
of high grade boys playing every posi-
ton. So, with only eleven positions TO
man on each team, few can be chosen
from the many called. The boys Sc
lected, in the opinion Of the writer,
have been most valuable to their teams
and are Of that type best qualified to
meet all the requirements of new loot
ball
Team Building a Task.
To build such team is making an
open bid for criticism. IL rs almost a
shame TO leave boy Of the ability OF
Don Afford. the captain and quarter
back of Adelphi Academy. off the eleven
Souville, the end of Erasmus Hall;
Hardenbrook, of Poly Prep; Berglind,
Of Stuyyesant; Sinclair, also OF Stuy--
vesant; Auehterlonie, the tackle OF
Boys High; Caddell, Of Bay Ridge;
O'Neill, guard on the same team; Lam
berson, the lone star OF the sadly
abused Curtis eleven, are all players
above the average, yet they have talleu
10 fulfil all the requirements that go
TO make up the highest grade OF player.
II is with regret, too, that little
Tommy Grace, the brilliant end Of the
Bay Ridge team, is relegated to the
ranks in favor of bigger, stronger men
of equal ability. The list might be ex-
tended TO include practically all the
honor men who are named IN follow
ing paragraph.
Here, then, is the first team, selected
after a careful study and review OF
the season, which, it may be said IN
passing, was one OF the best IN the
history of the sport:
Fishbeck, Adelphi Academy, left END;
Williams, Commercial, left tackle; Cole,
Erasmus Hall, left guard; Firsching'
Manual Training, centre; Weller, Man
ual Training, right guard; Bronder,
Poly Prep, right tackle; Foster, High
School of Commerce, right end; Witt
ner. High School of Commerce, quarter
back; futile, Erasmus Hall, left half
back; Erwig, Morris, right haltback;
Olson. Erasmus Hall, fullback.
Adelphi Academy, which won the
championship, has one man on the hrst
team. Erasmus Hall. the runner up
placed two; Manual Training also has
two, and the High School of Commerce,
which won the championship of Man
haitian, The Bronx and Richmond, has
two; and Poly Prep and Morris have
one each.
The list of honor men, grouped ac-
cording TO their schools, is as follows:
Adelphi Academy-Flshbeck, end;
Jacquillard. tackle; Mckenzie, guard;
Afford, quarterback, Love, fullback;
Hammond tackle; Leyser, halfback;
O'Brien, guard.
Ionic, tackle; Halloran, centre; Cor
man, halfback.
Bay Ridge Bright, halfback, Grace,
end; II. HARRISON, halfback; b. karlsoni
guard; Caddell, tackle; Nordstrum,
centre; O'Neill, guard.
Williams, tackle; Beck
err, fullback; Mason, centre; Frugonei
end; Captain Johnson, fullback.
Curtis-Lamberson halfback.
De Witt Clinton-Heinsohn quarter
back and fullback; Zelcer, tackle; Dill
Ion, end; Ritner, Romando, halfbacks.
Erasmus Hall-Olson, halfback; Tut
tie, quarterback; Hirsehman, end; Cole
guard; Souville, end; Tompkins, half
back; Medley, tackle.
High School OF Commerce-Hal Witt
ner, quarterback; Harry Foster, end;
Russell Clapp, halfbaek; Murray
tackle; Parkes. guard; Brinn, centre;
Galligan, fullbaek, and ID. Schneider
end.
Morris Erwig. halfbaek; Colleti
fullback: Treanor. centre; Ellis, guard
Braufman. halfback; Weinheimer, end
Manley, quarterback, and Jansen, guard
Manual Training -Firsching; centre;
Weller. lineman; Caminez, halfbaeki
Titus. halfback; Hinch, guard; Egan
end; Feuerstein, quarterback.
Poly Prep Bronder, tackle; Quinn
end; Pendleton, guard; Redmond, end;
Hardenbrook, fullback.
Stuyvesant- Bergllnd. fullback; Nc
GUINNESS NlhtkfIbdNhf RiHNtetAt NeN"'~
4 Wealth of Ends.
II is customary in building these
teams 10 start with the ends. The
honor roll includes:
High; Grace, Bay Ridge; Frugone,
Commercial. Dillon. De Witt Clinton;
Hirsehman and SoBville, Of Erasmus
Hall: Foster and Speedy" Schneider,
Of the High School Of Commerce;
Weinheimer. Morris; Egan, MANI i
Training. and Quinn and redmond, OF
Poly Prep.
Out Of this galaxy Of stars Harry
Foster, the right end Of the High
School Of Commerce, and Fishbeck, Of
Adelphi Academy, have been chosen. In
m opinion, they cor .bine ell the good
points Of the others and then add that
Individual touch 10 their play whi-i
marks the star. Foster is not the fast
est end in the ranks, but certain IL is
that no man this season covered the
punts Of his backs with greater keen
ness. He was aly lys there when the
ball dropped, and his taekling was
deadly in us surety. lie was dag
tician unsurpassed, hard TO take out
and perhaps the most aggressive man
playing the position. Combined win
hls other qualifications, he was clever
In receiving the forward pass and car
ried the bill well.
The selection Of Fishbeck can scarce
ly be questioned. lie was remarkable
defensive player, hard and sure in his
taekling, swift in covering punts and
good At receiving the forward pass. On
tn attack, too, he was reliable. and
made man. an opening for his backs -
plunge. Hirs-Iman, o krasmu and
Quinn. Of Poly, are second choices.