The New York herald., 1922-12-17
BACKS AND TACKLES
SHONE BRILLIANTLY
Kaw of Cornell Best of Car
riers-0wen and Basista
Followed.
TREAT MADE HIS MARK
Tiger and Gulian of Brown
Earned Places on the
- First Eleven.
TREAT MADE HIS MARK
by DANIEL.

OF men WnOm we mad not seen In
action this season we arrived at the
conclusion that Taylor Of the Navy
and Human of Yale had been the
best ends, Treat OF Princeton and
Gulian of Brown the leading tackles.
Hubbard" OF Harvard and Schwab Of
Lafayette the top guards. Garbisch of
the Army the outstanding center, and
Pfann Of Cornell the best quarter
back.
When it came to classifying the
backs the job was not so easy. Kaw
of Cornell was easily the star Of the
season, while Owen of Harvard stood
second. Basista of Washington and
Jefferson. from all accounts, was far
and away the best defensive back of
the year. We will confess an inclina-
ton to favor Mallory OF Yale. for we
had not seen the star of the Presi-
dents. But so much expert weight
was thrown on the side Of Basista
that we had to name him for the job.
There were perplexing problems at
every angle in this work Of naming the
leading players of the year. 1t was
labor which was not confined merely
to the men who were being talked
about and who featured in the big
games and on the leading teams. AS
has been our custom for many years
we have named those who proved of
sufficiently high caliber to earn places
on the roll of honor.
Starred in the Byways.
On this roll you will find many
player who would have been an out
standing luminary had he been a men,
ber of a leading eleven. Among these
we may mention Byham, the Allegheny
tackle, who is said to have been about
as great a man for his job as there
was In the East; Tonry. the Boston
University back; Roderick, the Column
bia carrier; Sweeney of Susquehanna
and Gibbons, the Bowdoin end. Others.
like Meredith of West Virginia and
Bowser. the Pittsburgh center. suffered
through the fact that they did not show
in this section of the country.
The best quarterback of the year won
his honor by quite a margin. Pfann of
Cornell was not only a heady field gen.
eral but he was a great carrier as well
"a versatile star, who lived up TO the
standard set at Ithaca by Chuck Bar
rett. Had Pfann combined great drop
kicking ability with his other qualities
his praises would have been sung even
as were--Barrett's. Buell. of Harvard
was the second best quarterback He
was fine leader, but owing to the
system followed at Harvard was not
called on to carry the ball. Darling
of Boston College. Smythe of the Army
and Langdon of Pennsylvania also stood
out.
Kaw led the backs by quite a mar
gin-and then came confusion. There
were so many stars, so many top
notch candidates. that there really is
mighty little to choose among the other
eight halfbacks and fullbacks of the
three teams named. Erickson could
have been placed on the first eleven
without doing anybody an injustice.
between Basista and Mallory.
But Kaw and Owen had to go on it. |
and we believed that the third place be-
longed to a man whose services for his |
team did not always stand out for the
general public and whose praises were
not sung in the headlines. The de-
fensive back has difficult job, and like |
the tackle and, the guard he gets his
dues only too seldom. Basista made |
nearly all the tackles turned i'm by the |
secondary defense of the Presidents.
Some Of the best critics of football |
who saw him several times this year
tell us that he had'a something on Nal
lory, who was the greatest defensive |
back seen at Yale since the days of Jack |
Field. So while the first honor goes to
Basista. Mallory is right there with him.
The Eli suffered bit from the fact
that when the big games came along he
was on the list of injured.
Taylor of the Navy and Human OF
Yale For while 1t looked as ir Eddy |
of the Ellis would be the leader but
after the Army game he fell back in
form, while HUMAN continued 10 i'm
prove. and at the close was on par
with the Midshipman. Neither OF these
two had much on Gray OF Princeton.
Lynch of Dartmouth stood fourth on
the list. Kopf OF Washington and JEFF
ferson was almost his equal--and then
there was jenkins Of Harvard. who kept
coming along as the season advanced
and passed Hartley. who at the start
looked like real star.
other Leading Ends.
White of the Army and Comcrford of
Boston College would have got the
places had we chosen fourth team.
They ranked with the stars OF the year
And then there was Gibbons of Bowdoin,
who. we are told. was about as good
n nankman as there was But we did
not see aim and could not get enough
data about him. So we may have done
him an injustice.
of great tackles there we're many
too many for the comfort OF the critic
who tried TO classify them. No matter
how the game may open up and no mat
ter how the forward pass may continue
as major factor. the great tackle still
has his shining place and the great
tackle still has his job cut out for him.
The man who takes just an extra yard
for his territory and handles that yard
we'll makes his mark
Those who stood out were Treat. the
Princeton tackle. and Gulian of Brown
Tho Providence leader did not have
much on Thurman. the Berserker from
Pennsylvania. Gulian knew more foot
ball than Thurman. but the Pennsyl-
vsnia man was one OF the furies I'm
action. Hanson of Cornell was right
up there with the best of them. In
fact. we cannot say that there was
much TO choose among any OF the four
Ncidlinger OF Dartmouth and Multi
gan OF the Army also ranked very high.
Baker OF Princeton was n wrecker. and .
so was Deibcl of Lafayette Meredith
OF West Virginia was recommended 10 (
us as being of fopnotch ruality.
Eastman Of Harvard Just missed one