The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-08

lrOn season IS the selection O1 an all star football eleven. Walter Camp set the precedent some 30 years ago
 of choosing a mythical team of play
 CTS that while they never hitched
 up in team harness, had demonstrat- ed the highest grade of football in
 the various positions.
 Nothing was ever done with such a teanls it never played any games, the wiedom of MT. Camps selections never came to an issue, and the foot hall world was never any wiser as to whether he chose well or not. But it came to be a fixed custom and ether Walter Camps cropped up all ever America with the result that the official football guide is sprInK4ed with mythical au-Am erican. all Northwestern, au-Southern, and other teams.
 |, Acting upon the many requests re lceived from various correspondents } throughout the A.E.F., the Sporting Editor of The Stars and Stripes has Reelected an all-AE.F. football team. He never saw all of the football teams of the A.E.F F in action. Neith- i CT did Walter Camp ever see all the football teams of America in ac- ton. Further argument is perhaps unnecessary. The point is plain. And the inevitable avalanche of brickbats hurled this way from all points in Germany, France, and Luxembourg | will be received by the mythical George" or the office boy.
 Without doubt the champion l S9th Division had the best pair of lends to play in Paris. Laslett ap- Peared better in the final games than l Higgins. He is not a large man, weighing about 155 pounds, but he l has the dynamic power of a, French .75. He gets down the field on punts i like flash and has a. nose for the i ball. His recovery of a rolling punt i that just grazed the safety mans leg 1 broke the ice of an apparently close same with the s. O. $. team and 1 resulted in a. touchdown
 Higgins is another great fighter and was one of the men who con- tributed a great deal to the striking victory of the men from the Rhine. Neither Laslatt or Higgins was ever l circIed for any considerable gain in ! the Paris finals. Other ends who l looked good were McCulIey of the 1 Seth; DoppeI of the 33rd; SauteIle of ] the 7th; Flower of the Beth; ZiEn-
 merman of St. Nazaire, and Boyd of I the Intermediate Section.
 1 Cobb and Beckett have been sell | ected for tackles, the first named be- i ing first choice. This Syracuse man | was a moose. In the early part of i the S9th-Intermediate Section game l he opened up hole after hole for the hard hitting S9th Division backs. In Tall the Intermediate games he was conspicuous end beat his ends down 1 the field. Beckett, former Mare Is- i land Marine captain, and also cap l tain of the University of Oregon l i fPasadena New Years Day two years faEo. proved a stumbling block for 1 every offense aimed at him. Like
 Cobb, he has great speed for his
 weight. and gets over the field with 1 his ends. In selecting Cobb and
 Beckett, Ham Fish, the former Harvard captain, was not forgotten. He played a great game against the 1 md Division in Coblenz. Nor were 1 ToIbert of the 36th, BuehIin of the
 l 33rd; Schweiger of the 9Sth; La
 Greer of the 2Sth; Scully of the In
 termediate Section, nor Thompson of
 the S9th-aH good tackles-over-
 Hooked.
 There can be no dispute as to the
 i&seIecuon of Capt Paul Wilmington
 for left guard. His work individu-
 lally was all that could be asked and
 furthermore he was the real genius
 and moving spirit of the champion
 Army of Occupa ton team as well as
 its most compelling personality. He drove it to it's greatest heights. He
 is The Stars and Stripes choice for
 | captain of it's aH-A.E.F. aggregation Nor can there be much argument
 about the right of Mabseet, the great
 Indian player of the 36th Division | to the other guard position. If there : i i,,7;+ Nf as to the other selections, the jot of picking an alI-A.E.F. team would be easy. Mahseet's bunting and pass
 ing featured every game in which
 he appeared. Able to pass or pun l with accuracy and great distance, he was in the backfeld much of the time on the offense and in defensive Hay his was a stonewau position ir
 the line. Other high class guards
 who did good work in the series were Van Holt and Grimm, of the Inter ne diate Section; Ii. Wilmington, o, the 29th and Garside of the S9th. Frye is believed to be the best cen ter although he had a close rival 1T kalama, of the 35th. Frye was an ether Hnesman who persistenly go down the field with the ends ant spilled play after play. Lewis dit some fine work, to, and loomed III big and powerful on the defense Two or three times, however, m the Paris finals, he passed badly and hi one bad pass in the game against tht Both gave them a touchdown whic1 for more than half the contest look l ed good enough to win. Seibert O the Ath. an old West Point player | $ another good man.
 Gerhardt is not a showy player bu l 1 as quarterback he handled his ma | chine admirably throughout the bil | series. Pete Russell of the 5th, ant i Carroll of the 2Sth, are great play | CTS. The choice between these thre, 1 admits of much argument. Horter | Of the Bordeaux eleven, starred il | several base port games and Hughes | | the brainy little leader of the cracl | Battery c, 10eth F. A. team whicf i ] got into the Paris finals, proved , | fighting cyclone. Parliamen, of tht | SSth Division, also deserves mention l The selection of backs is easy l 1 Nahan, the Harvard and alI-Ameri | can man, was such a star that tn | 1 S9th thought it worth while to keel | | two and three men on him all tn l | time. "Pottsy" Clark easily gaine, 1 l thaO