The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
Herald's All-American Team
An Unbeatable Combination
Mayer, of Virginia, Is Placed
in Back6eld with Mahan,
Barrett, andDe Prato.
LINE IS A STONE WALL

The first eleven is an unbeatable com.
bination-a team made up of stone"ai
linesmen, of the fastest trfckiest emu
IN the country and backfield men OF sucn
power that nothing but steel ana con-
crete wall could effectively halt
Pete Russell of Chicago, is wonder'
full quarter back; Williamson, the ftts.
burgh captain. WAS another briliiant pi'o'
man. vet both must step aside and give
,o charlie Barrett. of Cornell, the honor
of quarter back on the first Ali-Aheri'
can eleven.
Barrett Peerless Quarter.
Barrett in the opinion OF the majority
of veteran football students, is the great
est quarter back of all tire-greater even
than Walter Eckersall. the star OF the
West eight or ten years ago. Barrett i
as good a punter as was Eckersall. ou'
tho westerner edged him slightly on
drop-kickinc skill However. Barrett Is
"a lIne-sma sher-and Eckersall never was.
Those who take issue with the state
ment that Barrett is the greatest guar
Ter back of all time need but to LOOK
at his scoring record for the season
JSl points in nine games-scoreo asdihs'
such big elevens as Michigan, HarNaru'
PENNSYLVANIA and Washington and Lee
To Eddie Mahan, the great Harvard
CAPTAIN. goes
is the best all-around half back seen In
the East in many years. He can hit a
line. with terrific power, he is as speedy
as Mercury of the Grecian days. he Is
splendid punter and drop kicker par
excellence Mahan rounded INTO lorHi
rather slowly this year, but he played a
wonderful game against Princeton anu
in the Yale game he reached the zenith OF
his wonderful career.
1t may occasion surprise to find that
we have selected Deprato. of the Michi-
gan Accies. and Mayer, of Virginia. as
teammates for Barrett and Mahan on
fbe first eleven backfield. There are some
who may be of the opinion that Bier
man, of Minnesota: Macomber. OF Illinois;
Tibbett, of Princeton: Tallman. of Rut-
ger: Hastings, of Pittsburgh; Oliphant.
of the Army: Shiverick and Collins. OF
Cornell; Gilroy, of Georgetown: Cofah'
of Notre Dame: Rutherford. of Nebraska;
King. of Harvard. and Scovil. OF 1ale,
are better men. But have these persons
compared carefully the records of the
rival candidates?
DePrato a Marvel.
Jerry Deprato is the greatest scoring
machine of the year. In six games he
scored $50 points. an average greater than
that compiled by the mighty Barrett
ern football history as one of the greatest
players that ever hoofed a gridiron. There
is nothing in a football way that he can
not do-and do wonderfully. His record
shows that he scored an average OF 2
points per game.
Against Yost's University of Michigan
team Deprato played like a man possessed
He ripped to shreds the heavy Maize and
Blue line, he skirted the ends almost
fsnt fr-ovo hHn
er at least ten yards in each exchange
and .syhen the final whistle blew the
score was: Deprato "a. Michigan 0. This
'wfldfire Half Back of the West"
scored all the points against Michigan,
making three touchdowns. three goals
after touchdowns and one goal from
field
Mayer didn't get nationwide publicity
this season merely because he played on
one of the so-cailed minor - elevens.
His total of 1O6 points scored in seven
games speaks for itself, and the con-
versation becomes quite loud when 1t is
remembered that Mayer played against
Yale and Harvard as well as the most
powerful elevens in the South. No line
could throw back the plunges OF this l'0-
pound Southerner. He was amazingly
successful in his end runs and he had
no peer on defensive play.
thanlDerIatns 1reat NecOru.
Chamberlain, Of Nebraska. and Hig-
gins. of Pennsylvania State. rank as the
greatest pair OF wingmen who operated
in 1915. Chamberiain's record Is an as
tCniShinC one. An end isn't supposed
TO do very much in a scoring way, yet
I'm eight games Chamberlain scored six
teen toCchdowns ninety-six points - an
average of two touchdowns per game.
Chamberlain alone scored thirteen points
more in eight games than the whole Yale
team did in nine games: he alone scored
ninety-sX points in eight games against
1o0 points in nine games for the whole
University of Pennsylvania team.
Higgins scored only twenty-four points
during the season. Vet in all-around
ability he ranked next to the great
Chamberlain. and he earned the job as
mate for the Nebraskan. nosing out such
brilliant flank men as Shelton and Eek
Icy. of Cornell: Heyman. of W. and J.:
SOucy ard Harte. of Harvard: Baston. of
Minnesota: Squicrs. of Illinois: Miller. of
the Michigan Aggies: Heron. of Pitts
hursh, and Hishley and Lamberton. of