The Washington times., 1922-12-05
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER

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probably quite correct. There 4
anywhere else in 1889. II
Walter Camp made his final all
american selections for the season
OF 1870. Last year he gave It up a.
q bad job. contenting himself with
merely naming a roll Of honor
which gave credit to every section
or the country without stressins
anywhere.
For several years prior to 1926
Camp had been battling against q
Veritable flood Of football. The
game a week. pulling infant in 1889
was a mighty robust giant in 1915
tered over the land. the Nestor OF
football at Yale was falling down
badly with his selections.
Bitter criticism. much Of II falling
through its very bitterness. showed
Camp that It was time to forget his
annual selections. In 1889 he picked
but one team. In 1920, and for sew
eral years before that, he was pick
ing three elevens and even then no,
covering the field.
Where Harvard. Yale and
Princeton provided all tho players
for tho 1889 all.American eleven.
the first team in 1890 came from
Illinois. Princeton, Yale. Pitts.
burGh, Harvard. Georgia Tech,
Wisconsin. Ohio State. Penn State
and NOty'e Dame.
The second all-American in 1920
was provided by Boston College
Michigan, Navy, Dartmouth, SYRIA
cuse, California. Princeton, Centre
College, Pittsburgh and Army. with
the third coming from Navy. De
troit. Army. Harvard. Ohio State
Yale. California, Williams. Penn
State and Virginia Military Insti
tute.
Adams. Pennsyivania's center
rush. made Camps 1891 eleven
Thayer. PENIS fullback, was or
the 1892 team. but not until 1894
when Camp was picking his sixth
all-star team. did any but q member
Of the Big Three land more thar
one on the mythical eleven. That
year Colbert, end; Knipe. halfback
and Brooke. halfback, all from Penn
sylvania,s were Camps selections
Pennsylvania had battled its way
to the top and the Big Three be
came the Big Four for many a year
thereafter.
In 1895 Cornell landed her quar-
terback. Wyckoff. on the all-Ameri
can. becoming the fifth provider and
and the first outside Of the Big
Four.
The first Western representativ,
was Chicago University. whose
great kicking fuilback, Hirschber
ger. was Camps selection in 1898
and the following year saw Carlisle
breaking in with Seneca. the In
dams great running halfback.
Columbia was the eighth team
70 put . man on Camps all
American eleven, Morley getting
place In 1900. Morley was .
great running and line-piunging
halfback and, even with Yale's
greatest team providing seven Of
the eleven, he landed q place Of
honor In the mythical backfleld.
Football was widespread far and
wide by 1900. No longer was the
only football played BY the Nom
bers Of the Big Four. Here and
there. especially in the West
strong teams were being turned
out, and in 1901 West Point landed
two members on the ail-American
Bunker, q marvellous tackle, and
Charlie Daily. quarterback. who had
already been chosen in 'ss and '9i
while at Harvard. Daily Is the pres
ent head coach Of the West Poin,
eleven which triumphed over the
Navy q week ago Saturday.
Bunker was Camps selection fol
q place on the 1902 team. and Dart
mouths rolypoiy center, Hooper, wal
chosen In 1908, thus making thu
Hanoverians the ninth institution Il
provide the picker with candidates
though tied with Michigan. whos<
Wondrous Willie Heston crashed hi
WAY into the all-American backfielt
that Same year. Michigan. thus
Vas the second Western eleven tC
be honored. Carlisle, with Quarter
back johnson, and Columbia, with
Fullback Smith, also had places or
that 1908 eleven.
Aside from the old Big Four
Army, Chicago and Michigan land
ed players on the 1904 eleven. Tip
ton, the West Point guard; Walter
Eckersail, Chicago's great leickini
quarterback. and Andy Smith
PENIS line-plunging fullback, nov
succeSsful coach Of the Californis
slsvens. made tho all-star team.
Little Amherst College. In the
hills Of western Massachusetts,
broke into the limelight In 1905,
when Camp picked Hubbard, . fine
hurdling halfbaclk, for . ptsce IN
the all-Amorican bsckfleld. Thus
Amhorst WA the eleventh institu.
tiou honored By all-star selection.
Penn state, seen here this season
IN q game with the Navy, was tn,
twelfth. Dunn, a truly great cen
Nsr, landed o berth on the all-Ameri
can eleven Of 1905. but Brown Uni
versity shared with Penn State thu
honor Of crashing into the team
for Camp picked Johnny Mayhem a
one Of his halfbacks.
Nays first player to land q plac,
on the ail-American eleven Wal
Dag,ie. o fine end, who was choser
IN 1907. That made the Navs
Academy the fourteenth institution
10 provide stars for Camps teams.
BIG Bill Hort. . giant tackle. va