The New York herald., 1922-01-08
ONCE CONFINED TO EAST
Big Four Long Held Monopoly
West Got First Star on
Team in 1898.
by DANIEL.

S-S'Sh NAlCH Wdlter. camp mas Deen
naming since 1889. For him who is at
all interested in the great game it is
AN absorbing study to gather the
thirty-two teams which the father of
American football has selected and to
trace through these the gradual in
Grease of efficiency and interest and
spread of topnotch ability first through
lhe East, then across into the middle
sWest, down into the South, and.
finally, beyond the Rockies on the
cPaciflc coast-from 1889, when only
the East was represented on the All
-Star eleven. to 1921, which saw all sec
Stions honored for the first time.
When Mr.. Camp began to pick his
All America teams football ability of
:high quality was confined practically
TO the Big Three-Harvard, Yale and
Princeton. In those days-1SS9 and
1S90-the Yale veteran did not have
to look beyond the select trio for the
members of his all star aggregation.
, His first team-of 1SS9--was composed
of five Tigers, three wearers of the
Crimson and an equal number of Ellis.
The following year found five repre-
sentatives of Harvard, three of Yale
and three of Princeton on the All
America. In a football sense, America
was n mighty small country, bounded
by Boston, New Haven and Trenton,
with Philadelphia making valiant
ceffort to extend the lines.
:" Penn Breaks In.
Pennsylvania finally succeeded in
breaking into the charmed circle in 1891,
when Adams, its great center, was
named by Mr.. Camp. along with five
yale men, three from Princetonand only
1.-TWO from Harvard. Penn landed an
uOther star on the team of 1892, when
Thayer got the fullback position, but In
1898 the eleven again was composed
only of Big Three stars.
The next December saw Mr.. Camp give
sPenn three places-to Colbert at end
and Knipe and Brooke In the backfield.
Great was the excitement thereoyer, for
the rise OF the Red and Blue was ac-
companied by the fall of the Crimson
Harvard that year got only one man on
the All America and Princeton was
down to two.
Remember. all this time the All Amer
jeans were confined to what now had
become the Big Four. Penn made its
rDlace among the leaders secure In 1894
with its sensational triumph over Prince
5ton at Trenton by IL to 0, victory
which came out of perhaps the rough
est and bloodiest battle in the history Of
american football. That game resulted
I'm break between the Tigers and Penn,
and the wound has not yet healed.
Tt was in 1895 that the All America
list was graced by a representative of
a fifth college. The newcomer was Cor |
nell, and its standard bearer was
Wyckoff, the quarterback. The next
two years saw the selections go back to
the Big Four But the opening of |
new era and the first real assault on
the monopoly of Harvard. Yale, Prince
ton and Penn came in 1898, when Mr. |
Camp named IIirschberger of Chicago |
for fullback.
Hirschberger may be said to have |
been the first great football player pro-
duced i'm the Middle West In 1899 there |
was still further progress, for Mr.. Camp |
had to give recognition to still another |
newcomer IN the football arena, the Car |
liale Indians, who placed Seneca, their
remarkable halfback, on the All Amer
lea. And then came 1900, and Columbia |
broke into the Hall of Fame with Nor
1ey. the halfback who later became |
coach on Morningside Heights. With
sboD we bid adieu to the first dynasty /
&C American football
Tho season of 1901 saw football rise
10 the top OF a wave of tremendous
popularity-a wave which has been ris-
ing higher and higher each year. II
was in 1901 that West Point Joined the
All America list. 1t was In 1901 that |
Cornell got its second All America rep
resentative in the person of Glenn War
ner guard. who now is coach at Pitts
hurgh. The All America Of that season |
ruke all records-had men from six |
.ustltutions-five from Harvard, only |
nc from Yale. just one from Princeton,
Two from West Point--Charley DAILY.
now coach up there. and BunSer-and |
cne each from Columbia and Cornell.
That Columbia man of 1901 was the
stellar Harold Weekes, one of the fast
sst halfbaclSs who ever trod gridiron-
= Will o. the wisp in slxirting a flank and
perhaps the greatest hurdler in the his
tsiy of football Hurdling at that time
wss legal-and how Weekes could
fardle!
Dartmouth and Michigan Appear.
Tho old company got back into its old
Donopoly in 1902. but I'm 1903 there was
invChor big sensation with the appear
81 racn from seven institutions--three
from Princeton, two each from Harvard
rni Yale--oue each from Dartmouth.
REPRESENTED for the first time by Hooper,
cq,.ter: -oiuTnoia by Smith, fi,ilbaclS !
and n whale; Carlisle. by Johnson. quar-
terSaclS. and Michigan, by the renowned
Heston, the greatest halfback ever
turned out by Michigan and the Vests
candidate for greatest of all time.
IN 1904 Chicago came back with WAL
TER Erkersall. its quarterback. who COM
bnsd great skill as a thinker and runner
With prodigious ability as a drop kicker
and puuter. Eckersall was one OF the
greatest all around players the game
vet has seen. In 1905 Amherst had
something 60 say about the distribution
Of honors with Hubbard who got n
hnlfhack position. The following fall
there were two newcomers on the All
Amorica--Brown. with Mayhew, half
tack and Penn state, with Dunn, center.
In 1907 Dagues the Annapolis end. gave
the Navy It's first All America honor.
In 1908 Syracuse won its first place,
with Bill Horr, the mighty tackle.
II will be seen that the game was
moving along fast and that leading
individual honors were moving away
from the old Zig -Four. For this there