Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-29

Years ago a football teams strength
combed the country for big men. Any
was measured by it's tonnage. Colleges
fellow scaling 225 pounds could make
his college team and be a hero in the
line, ever if he was as slow as a turtle
and as fat as a Turkish wrestler.
The good football team in the old
DAYS had a line that stood 'like a stone
WALL on the defense and moved like a
steam roller when advancing the ball.
The player who could settle his mum
Der II shoes into the mud and heave
hard enough to turn over a loaded
truck was the. bird who wore the-gold-
en- football on his watch chain at the
end of the season.
Open play and forward passing have
changed all this. Modern football elm
mated beefy players several years ago.
For a time only fast men of medium
size and weight were considered as
good team material.
But lately the coaches have been
h,,sv digging I'D all the fast big men
they can find. Size is an asset when
speed is combined with it.
As boys are growing bigger all over
the country now because of schooiboy
athletic sports. there are many lines
men on college teams who would com
pare well in size with the bulkier heroes
of former days.
Boxing Champ at Harvard
Football coaches like to get men who
have had experience in boxing, wrest-
ling and other sports. because these
men usually have speed and know how
to handle themselves. A good boxer
makes a good football player. Har-
ward expects to have. a star tackle this
year in Charlie Eastman, who was IN
| eligible last season. Eastman is Har-
wards heavyweight boxing champion.
A big man who isn't active cant
make anv college team. The forward
pass has added a lot of running to foot
ball. Tackles weighing 200 pounds are
expected to show as much speed down
| the field as the ends.
Among the notable big men now
playing on college teams is Jim Nc
Mahon, the Penn State right tackle:
inches tall and weighs 200 pounds.
Very few gains are made by opposing
| teams through the right side of the
Penn State line. According to the
pedigree credited to Mcmahon at Penn
| State. he is half Indian. But the men
who meet him on the gridiron say hes
.an Indian and a half"
No section of the country has any
monopoly of big men. although Wash
ington and Oregon probably develop
! more six footers than any other state.
Big men are common in the. prairie
country, too, along the Mississippi.
Iowa's Giants Smashed Yale
When rsaw the Iowa team beat Yale
| this month I was struck by the express
sion that the Iowa men were all big and
square shouldered. Iowa had two
corking big tackles in Engledinger and
| THOMPSON. Last year Thompson and
Duke Slator of Iowa were rated two
of the best tackles in the country.
Slater. a colored player, had enor-
nous hands and long arms, and was a
fast runner. Often he would catch
the man running with the ball, reach
out one big hand. take a. grip on some
part of his uniform, and pull him back.
Thompson is six feet n and one
half inches tall and weighs POT. Engle-
| dinger is even bigger, weighing 212
pounds. These two giants are re-
markedly fast. They not only smashed
holes in YaIe's line to let the backs
through, but were all over the field
making tackles with the ends.
1t was chiefly the work of Slater
and Thompson, with Devine and Locke,
the llne-pIunglnR EaWkeye Dach, tnat
won the Western conference cham
pionship for Iowa last year. Iowa went
through the season without losing a
/, game, and for good Measure ooh on
| an outside game with Notre Dame and
gave the South Bend team its first
football beating in three years.
Herbert Treat of Princeton is an
| other big man. He was a great tackle
| at Boston College before he went to
| Princeton. That was in 1920. Last year
| he couldn't go out for the Tiger team
| because of the year rule.
Treat is 6 feet 80 inches tall and
weighs 1876 pounds. He plays the game
| very much as Keck played it, rowing
| all over the field. Big as he is, he's as
fast as any end at Princeton. In the
| game with North Carolina. OF a very
muddy field, Treat broke through and