Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-18
THE GREATEST HALF BACK
ECKERSALL ONLY PLAYER
WHO COULD STOP HESTON
Mlnncxotn Players scored D3 Touch
Won All sSut One Game "a 'Cir

Won All itut Ono Gamc, "a Tic.
Tim" cannot dim the glory that is
Willie Iieston's. the onrushing years
cannot citacc III" memories of the
greatest half back that America ever
has produced.
y d""ad" and more has passed since
UP his uniform for the last time Yet
ms deeds are IA fresh iu the minds OF
football lovers as they we're in the
h;n """ !;, he wa, vas 'earing lines TO rib
rnsh"s. Ana tho tales Of Ifeston's
triumphs VIII thunder down through
the wales of history to echo and re-
echo for the next g"ncration-and the
ncHt-and the NEXT.
ieston was the irresistible force
me human juEgcrnaut. He hurled his
compact marvellous body into the mos,
powerful human walls that ever were
produccd-and spl:t them asundcr.
Er"ry team that played Michigan dur
Ing the regime Of iI"stou had orders
TO Get Iicston" And none succeeded.
-Four mon. six mon. cigb; men. often
times threw themselves mo the path
way o: tn" charging Wolverine. And
h" crashed .nt"--aHd through--thos.
dcfenscs as "a bowling ball lips through
tn" ten pins
Chichgo--"vcr "as abb" 10 stop Iieston
temporarily He accomplished it with
g, trick; cu, Iiss'on qulsleiy ,hwar,sd
foes. first tried to halt the H.ston
PUSHES ny tackling him as h" came at
him. And. OF course, he failed.
Don't try that any more" was
Coach Alonzo Stages order 10 Ecker
sail thereafter. tackle iieston from
behind. Let him get past you II neccs
stry, Then. because you are faster
YOU can catch UP 10 him. And throw
yourself "a, the back Of his legs"
iicSt"n was "dumpcd'' by Ecker
sail several times by tina, method.
Fielding Yost and Weston quickly got
toge,her and mapped on, a plan where
Ia. ts.,a -,sF . l.n ft,slf .fsl,
"rs was 10 do nothing else bu, box"
Eckcrsal! every time Michigan play
behind ne found himself blocked.
ii"ston. during hi four Years az
;o In,iam for e% ,",aI O. ts poi m
!, is record that has wi;hstood the
onslaught Of all srtdir?n stars since
then-an achievement that may rank
IIr.fnn'> "Hush" Record.
II AL OF iics,ons gains were added
the touchdown distance In his day
they would show that Heston gained
,uuchcIowns--and more An instance
~ his ground gaining power is shown
in the recital OF his Work against Chi
squad gained 2s0 yards BY rushing
and OF this H"ston alone gained 237
The Wolverine star never placed his
own interests ahoTe those Of his team.
yidual glory for tina; OF his ina,es-and
his team of,cn during his amazing
career. when h bad, earned the right
TO carry over the ball for touchdown,
he surrendered il 10 one OF his mates.
The hes, illustration of this came In
the, famous Go game that Minnesota
and Michigan played l. was the only
game Michigan f.iicd to win during
tn. four years that Hcston battled un-
got IN. ball on it's own forty five yard
linz. In twelve crashes into the ,re-
IN ~ i,. hEl
carried for a touchdown. And Hes
ton alon" carried the ball on eleven OF
TO serve on Minnesota in that game
to batter through that supposedly
ambition OF Hcston's lifc. Football ex-
rerts had declared that iieston couldn't
do II. With his eleven charges he car
ri"d that ball ffty seven Yards, and
yard line.
one more rush-and the hall would
and Heston's ambition. would be
realized. Just another, crash into that
pliShed what many had called impos-
that bali: bio he lns!s, upon naisHins
the charge he had started and carried
ON with such dcmoniqcal fury?
No. Hcstou submerged his own de-
sircs. He remembered that Joe Mad
yearncd for the JOY and the glory or
scoring on Minnesota. AMd SO no
jumped over TO the quarter back as the
charge. and Whispered: Give the bal.
And the. quarter back. although sur
prised followed Iics,on $ orders. Mad
dock ,ook ne ball lumged for the line:
pushing with all his superb strength.
went over for touchdown. while the
dcrcd their plaudits for the man who
had scored for Michisan-J Joe Maddox.
Such a man was " lille Hcston.