The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-06

International News Service stsff
CORRESPONDENT.

BY LUTHER A. HUSTON.
International News Service STAFF
Correspondent.
CHICAGO. Dec. Grinding stars
for an a~ll.star team in the Middle
West or the Big Ten is easy. Picking
the outstanding stars from the galaxy
OF stellar gridders that wore the mole
skin in the finland empire during
the 1921 season is a tough assign
ment.
Wen start with the quarterback,
because We intend TO make the quar-.
terback Of our Team the captain of
the aggregation and because the chap
We shall name as quarter is the out.
standing football player between the
Alleghenies and the deep.blue Pacific.
Meet Aubrey Devine. of Iowa, the
best football man the Middle West has
known in a decade.
Devine can run a team. He has
=. brains-the kind that are possessed by
successful football generals. He can
run the ends. He can smash through
a line. He can twist and squirm and
dodge through a field Of desperate
tacklers. He can hurl the forward
pass or he cam receive it. He can
punt, drop kick or place kick. What
more could 4 football man be asked
10 do?
Halfbacks are next on the list. and
the job becomes more intrikit." There
We're a half dozen corking halfbacks
cavorting around in the Big Ten this
year II is a stiff job and a thank.
less one TO pick out two Of them with.
out sighting two others who might
be just as good. Our choice for the
job, however, is Elliott. OF Wisconsin,
n Captain Laurie Walquist, of H.
linois.
Elliott Line Smasher
Elliott was the best smashing half
back in the conference. He can smash
through a line like a fulback and
is>a demon at Skirting the ends. A.
q handler Of forward passes he had
few superiors in the conference. and
he ranked next to Devine in the
number of points scored during the
season, Devine leading the conference
in this respect.
Many CRITICS will not agree on the
selection Of Walquist. In our opinion.
however, Walquist would have been
q star on a team stronger than the
Illinois. In the final game Of the sea-
son against Ohio he was a tower of
strength n scored the touchdown
that beat Ohio out Of the Big Ten
title. Walquist is steady, dependable.
= good line smasher, end runner and
clever in shooting or sharing the
forward pass.
The fullback berth goes to Gordon
Locke. the human battering ram from
Iowa. Locke came the nearest to fe.
calling Hugo Bezdek and Heston of
any OF the line.smashers that have
performed in the Middle West in re-
cent years. He did not find a line
through the entire o season that he
could not dent, and most of the time
IL was first down after Locke as
saulted the hostile bulwarks.
Many Good Ends
That cleans up the backfield and
brings us 10 the line. Ends 4 high
dotree were found on nearly every
team n the Big Ten circle. The out.
standing star was Fritz Crlsler, the
veteran Of Chicago's Maroons. Crisler
ended his college football career in a
burst Of glory, playing a marvellous
game against Wisconsin. He Is 4,
speed merchant at getting under
punts and always was effective as a
crasher Of tAe hostile otfen~ His
cleyerness at handling forward passes
featured all his work.
At the other wing position is Cap.
tain Cyril Truck" Myers. OF Ohio.
Myers was a bulwark Of strength in
the Ohio machine for three years: a
steady. dependable PLAYER, good on n.
Tense or defense, q good hurler OF
the forward pass and a good graboer
Of the same.
Captain Chuck" Mcclure. OF Chi.
cago. and Duke slater. the Sene.
sambian from Iowa, are the tackles
Few critics. We believe. will disagree
with these selections. McGuirt
throughout the season played a
smashing, aggressive game. He brush.
ed stan Keck. Princeton's All.Amerl.
can tackle, out - his path IN the
Princeton Chicago game and made the
going awful rough for every tackl,
he faced.
Slater Real star
Slater really created. by his ire.
mendous strength and charging abl
NY. the gaps through which many
OF the great gains Of the Iowa back
Held were made. His smashing OF In.
reference was uneQualled IN the Mid.
die West.
Crack guards were not so plentiful.
but the best OF the bot were Pixley.
the Ohio giant, and Duke Dunno.
Michlgan's husky captain. Both were
aggressive. powerful chaps who play
ed intelligent football
Bunge, OF Wisconsin. Is given the
job OF centre. Bunge played a steady
consistent game and held his own
with every opponent throughout the
year.
II Is with deep regret that such
quarterbacks as Romney. Of Chicago.
Williams. Of Wisconsin. Workman,
OF Ohio. and Sternaman. Of Illinois.
are left off the team. II we were
selecting a second team Romney would
get the quarterback honor.
In the halfbaok field Gould. OF Wis.
consin. stuart. OF Ohio. Martineau.
OF Minnesota. Capon and Usher. of
Michigan; Peden. Of Illinois Cole and
phott, OF Chicago. and Glenn Devine.
VI Iowa, were stars that glittered
scarcely a whit less man the men
named FOR the mythical all.star honor.
Sundt Fine Player
Among the fullbacks Captain Guy
sundt. OF Wisconsin, ranked hardly a
traction behind Locke. while Thomas
and Timms, OF Chicago Kyle, Of In.