Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-23
EXPERTS FACE AN
ALL-STAR PUZZLE
Find Task Of Picking Topn0tchers In
Cridlron Play Baffling One
This Season.
MANY QUESTIONS COMING 1T
Critics Claim Greatest Form Nix-up in
History Of Game Is Threatened
In Conference Alone,

Chicago, Nov 23.- CustodIans Of the
padded cells had better enlarge quar-
ters. There will be a lot Of room
needed this fail before the last blast
about all-star football players and the
kingpin eleven Is heard From east TO
west there is lot Of crashing Of
teeth and pulls on ths scalp locks as
dopesmiths are entering upon the an
nual task of crowding couple Of hun
dred football players into eleven posi-
tons and picking one team better than
any other.
There have been plenty Of difficulties
in taking care Of one section Of the
country. as for instance. the college
conference or the entire western terri
tory, where the critics have had fair
chance TO size up the candidates for
fame However. when the ali-Ameri-
can speculator gets to work he will
find this year to be one of the tough
est in the history OF the game
Problems for Experts,
Leaving out of consideration the Sc
lection OF individuals the task of pick
ing one best team is not a whit cas-
Ter. Does Illinois rank with Cornell
and are the Ithacans better than the
Crimson we're In the Yale game? Is
Minnesota stronger than the Oregon
Aggies and should Colgate be counted
among the elect? Is Syracuse better
than any western team and should the
Michigan Aggies be put in the fore
front among the western elevens
a What niche should Nebraska occupy
and is the University Of Pittsburgh
eleven strongest Of all? Is the Wash
iugton and Lee team superior to Har-
ward. Yale and Princeton as the lat
ter finished th season, and is Trinity
on par with the big teams along the
seaboard2
Could Chicago, twice defeated, hold
its own with such teams as Princeton,
Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard or should
the dope be thrown into the waste
basket? The latter suggestion might
ill the bill, but in that case where
would the fuel for the hot stove circuit
come from? That would leave Walter
Camp and other critics out of the pub
lie prints and no one would have a
chance of telling the critics how little
they know,
Game Finds New Level,
Something along this line was pre-
dicted at the time the rule makers
were tinkering with the gridiron code
Some farsighted gentleman at the time
allowed that the subject would be toe
big and that the game would find such
q level as to make it impracticable for
any one critic to even have an opin-
ion
II would seem when II comes to pick
Ing the best that Cornell stands out
above the rest, but the Ithacans did not
play single strong western team and
only one or two or the strong eieyens
In the east, In the west Minnesota
and Illinois are regarded as the
two strongest. but who shall say whict
one is the better? Then. besides, col
leges which are seldom heard of have
upset the dope with alarming fire.
quency by beating the bigger elevens
All this makes for the biggest mix
up OF form in football ever known II
the sport, and it would seem as If ths
days of picking All-Amsrica players
and one All-America team are nearing
the end.