The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
sAmercanLeague Batters Feature Coming Tower
Bushnell Favors Cornell
As Football Champions

section Of the country to give the I'M
precision Of impartiality. The only team
am willing to pick Is from that grouI
which have labeled the big six-Har
ward. Yale. Princeton. Pennsylvania. Cor
nell. and Dartmouth. They are selected
because they are universities with uni
form eligibility rules. standard in size
and either play each other or teams OF
the same caliber. The all-big six team
based on personal observation in theiI
championship games is As follows:
Ends-Lamberton. Princeton. Shelton.
Cornell.
Tackles-Gilman. Harvard: Mclean.
Princeton.
Guards-spears, Dartmouth: Hennins.
Pennsylvania.
Center-Cool. Cornell
Observation-Disclosures. Harvard.
HaIfbacks-Barrett. Cornell: King, Har-
ward.
Fullback-Mahan, Harvard.
There is only one position on this team
that needs any explanation. That ID
Watson. of Harvard. at quarter back. By
a good many persons Barrett, of Cornell,
is made the quarter back. 1t Is true that
Barrett has played this position for three
years. but he is a natural half back. The
Cornell system Of quarter back play
called for u direct pass from center to
the men selected to carry the ball. By
this system all that Barrett did as
quarter back was to call the signals.
But he did not shine as a field general
for he constantly made mistakes Of
judgment and was hardly in the same
class with Watson, Of Harvard. or even
Click, OF Princeton. 1t is true that Wat
son did not shine as an individual play
er, but with three such backs as Mahan.
Barrett. and King to carry the ball Wat
son would not need to run with It, In
his ability to size up the weak points
of an opponent and to get the most out
of his own team Watson has not had an
equal in the last ten years.
Army-Navy Game Poor Football.
The Army-Navy game played in
New York on Saturday was typical of
these contests. That is to say the
two service teams played with the old
'do-or-die spirit" and forgot all the
football they knew. 1t Is the excep-
tion rather than the rule that either
Of these teams wins a game by virtue
Of playing superior football. On the
the rivalry between the
academies is so keen that the moment
the players catch sight of each other
they grow wild and imagine that they
have to give themselves straightway a
sacrifice to their country.
II is unquestionably the toughest
game of the year. II two college
teams mauled each other the way the
Army and Navy players do there
would be talk of prohibiting their
games in the future. 1t is because
the men are SO aggressive. so keen
FOR the fight that they are unable to
DO themselves Justice. II the teams
.ould play against each other as they
10 against the big college teams the
spectators would be treated to some
good football.
New Regatta in Prospect.
1t is to be hoped that the recently
'ormed American intercollegiate Row
ng Association will be able to work
'ut its plan for a week of college
owing after the manner of the Eng
ish Henley. II would decide without
urther quibble the rowing champion
ship of America. Since there is less
jealousy in rowing
han any other college sport there is
ome prospect that within a few years
he Poughkeepsie regatta will be
uperseded by a regatta in which Yale
eyes which now row on the Hudson. |
rhe plan is to have the various crews |
ow in heats and the winners to meet |
n semi-fnals with the championship |
Iecided by the final heat.
This will not only provide splendid
program. but will also give the colleGIans
IN opportunity to minsle with each other
nd promote better Intercollegiate rela- !
ions. OF even more Importance it will
the unfairness of the various
curses on the Hudson. Conditions are
lever the same in the different lanes
When half a dozen or more crews are
trung out across the river. II the water
5 rough the crew farthest out is al
most beaten from the start, and IL 1t is
mooth the conditions are reversed.
What rowing needs is a longer regatta.
rith preliminary heats, semi-finals, and
final.
Copyright, 1915, bs Edward r. BushneuJ
III EMIT EDANY uINYEV