New-York tribune., 1920-10-27

Eastern Teams
Well Supplied
In Star Backs
At Least Fifty Men of
First Caliber in Fight
For All Star Honors
By Ray Met 'artl,v

mere IS not one outstanding back
field star on Eastern football team,
this year. Just minute. please W.
said there is not ONE, but there arc
nearly FIFTY all told. And every on,
OF these is star Of the first caliber
Yet it cannot be SAID tha. one bacl
stands out as Ed Mahan or jim Thorpe
did
Of course, we are not considering
players of the West or of the South, a.
we do not profess to know anything
about them. However. this much seem.
certain: 1t is hardly likely any bacl
Will receive unanimous choice for the
All-American eleven or the All-Eastcrr
! this fall
But greater profusion of hackfielc
material probably never before existed
since the game was started As we
stated, without even considering the
South or the West, there are nearl,
hfty IN the East who already have
SHOWN enough to merit consideration
for an all-star combination. The crit
lcs are in for trouble when the time
comes for picking one set as the best
Big lhree formidable
There is not one team in this sec
ton of the country but has at least
one crack backfield man and several Of
the outfits have whole backtield trios
OF more than average ability. Consider
the big Three" Yale has Murphy at
quarter, Kempton and Aldrich -or the
halves and Kelly. fast coming TO the
front as one Of the best-a sweet lock-
ing backfield everybody will agree
Princeton, with Lurrie at quarter,
and Cilroy. Garrity aud Wittmer or
Scheerer, rivals the Yale group, while
Owen, Churchill and Horween, of Har-
ward, do not give the appearance of
being bunch of cripples by any
means.
And then cast your eye on that little
town Of Hanover-take the glass and
watch Jordan, Bowers, Holbrook and
Workout E~er see smoother looking
crew than that? Neither did we How
! about Syracuse? Could any coach com
plain of the way Frugone. Abbott,
Anderson and Kellogg perform
Enough to make anybody envious to
see those fellows snap into it.
Bezdek has put together set at
Penn State that is running Wild
with proper interference it will take a
German howitzer to stop those fellows
by the end of the season. Killinger
Haines, Way and Smell remind one CT
a Texas cyclone on its merry way
at Pittsburgh Holleran. Davies, Nc
Cracken and Hewitt. Would hate to
get in the way Of that gang en- route.
All Have Luminaries
And SO it goes. Penn has Straus,
itol l.
luminary in Kaw; nobody ever saw a
Nirginia; Keady's midget quartet of
Rote, Savaria, Captain Harrington and
Henzelman at Lehigh-average 1872
pounds-is causing them all to sit up
and take notice; Lafayette is count
ing great deal on Lehecka and Ga
zella; Boston COLLEGE, has a first class
backtield with Fitzpatrick, Liston and
Corrigan on the job, and then there is
the Williams team, Benny Boyton.
Holy Gross has Gagnon and Simen
dinger both GREAT; Washington ual
jefferson has two of the best in Ellison
and Erickson. Here in town there is
Canapary, of Columbia; Wcinheimer,
of New York University; Ha,loran and
Steele, OF Fordham, and Bajusz. Of
Stevens.
The Army is we'll off with French,
formerly of Rutgers, and Wilhide; the
Navy has its share-Koehler, Cruise
and Waters; there are two speed mar
vels on the Georgetown eleven.
Leighty and Ward.
What parade of back field material
all these would make, each and every
one a STAR
Washington and Jefferson has a won
delful team this year, containing sew
eral nifty players. including Ellison,
Erickson, Carroll, Stein and Garbisch
1t has been figuring on defeating Pitts
bulgh and Syracuse and entering d
claim for the Eastern title. But be
fore doing SO it must get rid of the dis
sension in the team, in which. we
understand, there is as much as ex-
listed in the Syracuse eleven of 1916
Petty politics and fraternity SQUAD
bles, it is reported, are killing the
teams chances.
The playing of Cross, a big fellow
who did good work at center for Yale
las Saturday, is worthy of comment
Clcss came out for the team onty Two
weeks ago, and already looms as COM
ing star.
Semi-PrO Season Ends
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