The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-31
STARS SHOW UP
LeGOre of Yale Certain of ALL
American Place.
West Has Best Quarterback in
Long of Minnesota.
BY FRANK G. MENKE

New York, Oct 31-The pigskin
meadows gradually are becoming pep
pied with youths who are doing stunts
that merit them consideration for jobs
on the mythical All-American elevens.
The achievements of Harry LeGore.
OF Yale, so far have given him rank
ing among the greatest Ealfbacking
persons on the profesh. There isn't
anything that LeGore cannot do-and
do exceptionally well.
Andy Hastings, star Pittsburg back
Held has shone with especial bril-
lance so far. He was ranked by some
as an All-American man in 1915. This
season he has played far beyond any
thing ever shown before. Unless he
slips back during the games to come
possibility remote to an extreme
Hastings will take unto himself a first
class job on the all-s star team.
Casey, the Harvard backfield find"
is ranked as "a second Mahan." But
how will Casey show when he is put
to the Yale and Princeton tests?
Horween, another Crimsonite, is be-
ing touted strongly up in Cambridge
for his fine work. Then there is
Berry, the grea, Pennsy halfback,
who, almost unaided beat the power
full Penn State crew.
Big w. and j. Star.
McCreight, of Washington and JEFF
ferson, never flashy player, has been
exhibiting in a way this year that
stamps him as one of the really great.
McLaren, of Pittsburg, is another
star; plunging halfback that re-
Heston- Oliphant, picked by many
last season, is performing in the same
dazzling manner for the frmy this
season. Tibbott, of Princeton, also has
earned plenty of applause.
Sprafka, of Minnesota, stands out
just now as one of the best halfbackS
in the west He has been responsible
in the main for the great scoring done
western, is another whose work has
scintillated. Hartley, of Ohio State,
HIS starred in every game-and in
every department of the game.
Among the other halfba cks and full
backs whose great work merits them
much thought are:
Mueller. CORNELL Maulbetsch, Michi-
gan; Macombe, Illinois; Watkins, Col
gate; Pollard, Brown; DeHart, Pitts
burg; briggs, Princeton; Bingham,
Mouth; Thielscher, Dartmouth; In
er m, Navy; Nuss, W. and j.; and
Carlson, Minnesota.
Star Quarterbacks.
Turning to quarterbacks. ne is con-
fronted instantly with Long of Mime
sofa If any pivot man" has per-
formed in a more remarkable way this
year than Long, his name is unknown
just now. He is a wizard-brainy,
fast, courageous, grand kicker ana
an uHCdIIy TuuLCI- veal ~ L SSS ANN7
sell, he probably was the greatest
quarter in the west a year ago. Now
Pete is gone and Long is the best m
the west-if not in the country.
Star quarterbackS are rather scarce
in the east Shiverick, of Cornell,
looks like one of the quarterbacks in
the east, with Anderson, Of Colgate,
close up. Purdy (Brown) Meehan
(Syracuse) Morrow (Pittsburg); Rob
inson and Murray (Harvard): Eddy
(Princeton). and Stobbs CIV. and ID,
All are good men, but none las flashed
his full power so far
Bob Peck, captain of Pittsburg, was
the AIl-American center selection by
Walter Camp and about 80 per cent
of the other critics last year. Inc
Panther leaders work to date makes
It look like reelection for him. Haus-
en- of Minnesota, sizes up as the best
man so far uncovered in the west.