The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-04


moleslxins. Cheated shoes are waiting
in lockers for another season to roll
around. Ribboned fields are deserted
No more are the crowds of the football
season to gather to proclaim their
cries for their teams. Athletes of
the colleges over the country are not
reporting to coaches for training,
listening to training rules, dieting has
ceased at fraternity houses; football
players now are eating and making
merry. This is the lull in the co1legi-
ate sport world
While the 1922 football season is
over as far as actual playing is con-
cerned, the TALK OF the season just
closed still goes on. In little groups
in fraternity houses. in the lull of
class work where football men gather
together. on the campus, down town
and elsewhere, the talk still is of foot
ball. The records and upsets of the
season come in for their share of
the discussions, but talk largely is of
the all-conference selections and foot
ball prospects for 1928.
Probably the most important of these
discussions is the all-conference selec-
lions.
In the Kansas conference. the all
conference rule forbids a conference
championship. The public sentiment
decides the winner of the conference.
The best players on the elevenS are
chosen by sports writers, and the play
ing public(as we'll as the fans discuss
the poor or good judgment of the writ
ers who made the selections
Many of the sport writer's have not
their all-conference choice /
A few have announced. The first to
editor of the Kansas City Journal In
his Sunday edition he names the all !
valley selection. the All-Kan- |
sas and the all-Missouri intercollegiate |
association. selections. His Sc
lections head this column.
Cochrane gives his own reason for |
selecting these men. Here 1t is:
In the Missouri valley conference I,
three teams performed in a manner |
that made them stand out above the |
balance of the field. On these three 1
teams We're outstanding stars whose /
work had much to do with the success
of their elevenS and thus enabled /
them to land eight of the eleven places
on the mythical All-valley eleven.
To Nebraska, winner of five straight /
contests. most of them by lopsided |
scores, go four. Drake, another unde-
feated team, gets two. The Kansas
Aggies. in third place, beaten only by /
the powerful Huskers and the team
that made the best showing against
Fred Dawson's Crimson horde, get |
two. The other three places are di- |
Fided among Oklahoma, Kansas and
each getting one and in each
caSe that one man work stood out ali
season as the real feature of that
teams perfo-mance.
Great BackfieId.
1t is by no means an easy task to
select the eleven best men for such a
cam in a race marked by upsets as
he Valley campaign has been. In
making the selections, the fact that
he teams won or lost has made little
Inference The men have been chosen
of their individual value to
heir eleven. Every man chosen
you'd be of great value to such a team
I 1t should be organized for actual
play on the field and we cannot imag-
ne more remarkable football ma
nine than the first team which is
given here
What other four men in the Valley
an even compare to the brainy,
rafty Swartz, quarterback of Kansas