The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-08
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A Confession.
can it be that I'm getting old.
BY Time outbid?
I do not care now for the cold.
As once did.
For when the winter gales sweep
by.
or through the nation.
I yearn- then for a sunlit sky.
And perspiration.
The AII-star Parade.
No. ,. The Greatest AII-Around
Athlete.
without wasting any preliminary
wind-up We nominate our candidate
for this important office on the spot:
James Thorpe. of Carlisle. Copen-
hagen and all points East or West.
Thorpe is the greatest all-around
athlete that the world has ever
known. IN so far as the quivering
finger Of scientific research can To-
cate all leading candidates.
rs a football player he could
punt drop kick or place kick with
the best.
He could run an end or hit a line
with the best.
He could forward pass or handle
a forward pass with the best
And he was one of the greatest
defensive players in the game. a
hard. sure tackler who rarely
missed his man.
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in football history. a man of iron
who never took out time in his col
lege career. and you have in jim
Thorpe the greatest piece Of all
round football flesh ever known.
That's merely one station.
As an Olympic star he came back
With a trunk full of medals. They
may have taken them away later.
buthe was the one that earned them
on the field.
He was a Splinter. a jumper, a
weight thTower, hurdler-the
worlds all-around athletic cham
pion in 1912.
As baseball player he was good
enough to reach the big league and
stay there for quite spell.
He wasn't the greatest ball player
that ever lived. but he was good. \
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he hit above 800 in more than one
campaign.
Who Is there on the docket to beat
this amazing combination at foot
ball. field and track?
Elmer OHphant of Purdue ana
West Point is his closest rival Oil
plant possibly may have added one
or two additional sports But he
was never able to reach the same
heights in track, field or baseball,
nor was he as versatile in football.
II Jim Thorpe doesn't head the
list for all-around athletic great
ness we pause for a reply.
Football and Luck.
We sometimes wonder II the gods
dulge in a winking spell at times
as mortals attempt to arrange and
segregate the laurel for leading
teams and leading stars.
For luck plays a tremendous part
in footballs annual drama, well past
the average idea along these lines.
There is not only the luck of the
play itself, but the luck of injuries
and condition.
Princeton, for example. gets Lou
rie and Clarity hurt in the first
game. and with the finest prospects
in Nassau history a whole year goes
upon the shoals. For as Lourie and
Clarity return. Keck and wittmer
fade out.
The Play Itself.
II may be charged thai this turn
doesn't go for the play itself. But
IL does.
Il recall a certain game" re-
marked Fielding Yost. where we
played fine football the first two
periods. outplaying our opponents
by a wide margin. The score at the
end of the first half was 90. We
were not quite so good in the last
two periods, yet we ran up u
points"
''In the first half every break of
luck was against us. In the second
half every break came our way.
Harvard had from four to six good
men. constantly on the limping list.
This difference was good for 81
points in two periods. 1t is quite
possible for team to be badly OUT