The New York herald., 1921-12-04
ALL-EAST ELEVEN
OF 1921 CHALLENGES /.
BRILLIANYS OF PAST
Recent Football Season
Brought Out Great
Galaxy of Stars.
HOT FIGHT FOR H0NORS
Aldrich. Killinger and Stein
Stand Out Prominently
Among Candidates.
HOT FIGHT FOR HONoRS
BY DANIEL.


see the Big Three in action. Then the
Big Three grew to the Big Four-then
the Big Six, Now we find the Big
Dozen fighting it out for the suprem-
acy of the East-another Big Dozen
scrapping for the leadership of the
middle West, a Big Six battling for
honors on the Pacific coast, Big Four
in the Missouri Valley, Big Six in
the Southwest-football class here.
there and everywhere, with American
football as big as America itself.
We find Penn State, undefeated;
Cornell. Lafayette and washington
and Jefferson, all also unbeaten, clam
oring for the championship of the
East. We find Centre College of Ken
lucky, conqueror of Harvard. disput
ing Southern supremacy with Georgia
Tech. We find Chicago. winner over
Princeton. not even in the top flight
of the Western Conference, in which
the title was won by Iowa.
We find Notre Dame, which over
whelmed the Army. beaten by Iowa.
We note that Pittsburgh, which held
Penn State to scoreIes tie, was beaten
by Nebraska, champion of the Missouri
Valley, while on the Pacific coast Cali
fornia, title winner once more, stands
stalwart and defiant challenging the
nation. to 49, ,s.
soon May BE Obsolete.
Ont of all this grows the impression
that he who selects an All America
eleven is to be congratulated for his
fearlessness and heroism. Later on We
may find him proper subject for con-
dolences. The critic who tackles the
task of naming an All East combination
tackles trouble enough. The All Amer
lea has become obsolete--the All East
threatens to become that way too.
Speed the day!
He who selects an all star team of any
kind must depend somewhat on the
opinions of others. He must do that
even in the cases of players whom he
has seen in action. A man may be
world beater one Saturday and Just an
ordinary player the following week.
Football players. after all and report
to the contrary Notwithstanding, are
human. They are but human barome-
ters like the rest of US. In consequence,
when in doubt We have taken advan-
tage of the opinions of players, coaches
and other critics.
OF those whom we have named for
our All East eleven we saw all this
year except one--Eddie Kaw of Cornell.
We saw Kaw in action last year and
got the impression that another season
would see him among the front rank
backs. Now, we are assured by Coll
gate, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania men
who played against him-and by the
clinching opinion of Bill Hanna, who
saw the Cornell l-Pennsylvania contest
that Kaw belongs on the All East team.
SO there we have placed him,
The Underlying system.
We have not made our selections with
the idea that each team Is to be
equipped so that IT could take the field
as /. we'll rounded eleven. You will
note that our ends are Sturm Of Yale
and Parr of the Navy. Neither of these
is what might be called first class
catcher Of forward passes--and truly
great team nowadays needs an end who
can do just that.
If we hdG to provide our first team
with wing of that variety we would
have 10 move McCollum of Penn State
from the second team to the first. III
we wanted an end who could go back
and throw a great forwar nass we
would have to make room fG yely OF
Princeton, a corking thrower in addi-
tion TO being a fine defensive end
But we have named our men for their
high average in everything that players
in their positions would be asked to do.
We have named Sturm because, In our
.f,.ta ha UNA he nd ha 20 ~
had this year--best when you put attack
and defence together Parr was a close
second. and these two had to go some to
win their Jobs over McCollum and Ma
comber OF Harvard .,t.s
Hufford of Penn state and Munns,
the Cornell end. ranked about on a par
with the second team pair. Comerford
of Boston College might have won a
placi had he played against some OF the
leading teams in this section. IL must
be appreciated that Snively and Stinson
OF Princeton had an extra burden 10
carry. The work of an end under the
Roper system---the smashing end used.
we believe, by Princeton alone, 10 very
wearing and c+77seuse
} Roberts Led Them All,
while Sturm and Parr were the beat
ends in the East. they were not the
best we saw this season, BY far the
most expert of those we had the privilege
70 watch was Red Roberts of Centre.
1t was Roberts more than Mcmillan or
anybody else who made II possible for
Centre to win over Harvard. Anderson
of Notre Dame was the second best flank
we saw. Muller of California, we hear,
topped them ALL But here we are go-
ing out OF our territory.
or tackles the East had great many
IN the topnotch class. six we're so
closely punched that Il was almost inn
possible 20 place one over the other
Into Of Yale, Keck of Princeton. Nc
Mahon of Penn State, King Of the Navy
Williams OF Lafayette and Dodge Of
Cornell, all presented strong claims ana
one was az good az another
-. Eeck had bad day against Mcclure
NJ CHICAGO and he had 90 leave the Yale
Princeton battle right IN the thick of IL.
but he showed enough class 20 land a
place on the first team with Into of
Yale. / did not see Dodge nor did get
chance 10 watch Williams. They tell
me that Williams was about ~ great
clsle as there was In the East. but it's
pity that he could not show against
ore elfens Of high calibre.
Sulics of Syracuse and Gulian OF