Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-14
AMERICAN
TEAM CHOSEN
East Shows up Well in This
Eleven Picked by
Country'S Experts
All AMERICAN SELECTIONS

Positions Eif@b Etchtb
End ...... -. Meas; syraSn 1e
Tackle -. .~.MllSteau, 1%ie
Guard ........ McMillen. Illinois
Center. Blot. Michigan
Guard ......... Hubbard, Harvard
Tackle ........ Below, Wisconsin
End Eklund, Minnesota
Quarterback. Pfann, Cornell tCapt.)
HaIfback Grange, Illinois
Halfback Wilson. Penn State
Fullback -. Levi. Haskell Indians
Second Eleven
End ......... Bomar, Vanderbilt
Tackle ........ Sundstrom, corner
Center ........... Garbisch. Army
Guard ........ Bedenk. Penn State
Tackle 90. Muirhead, Michigan
End ........... Berry. Lafayette
Quarterback Workman. Ohio state
Halfback .Kipke, Michigan. lCapt.)
Halfback ..... Nichols, California
Fullback .......... Mallory, Yale
on n Saturday last November
$50 football games were played.
Since each of these contrasting teams
would average about thirty men in
it's squad, that means something
more than 5000 college men play
ing football regularly. This furnishes
a faint idea of the great field of con-
ltolIIlS lioll Will NhC 'AtNt
World All-American team of 1928
has been taken.
The striking feature of the 1928
season was the dearth of good ends,
something very rare for any sea-
o
In the selection of the 1928 eleven,
after all the Vo1es were in, it was
found that five men were from the
east and six from the west. How
yer, in some cases the count was
sc close that only a few votes sePa-
rated the successful first team f.om
the second.
McRae of Syracuse led the ends
in the vote of the coaches by a fairly
comfortable margin, while Eklund
of Minnesota was second.
The selection of Milstead for one
of the tackles vas almost unani-
nous. The other tackle position
was a toss-up between Below of
Wisconsin and Sundstrom of Cornell
until the last minute. Competition
was so keen that Below won the de-
cision by one vote.
The two guards selected, McMillen
of Illinois and Hubbard of Harvard, !
had a substantial lead over their
closest competitors, WEIGH of Col
gate and Bedenk of Penn State.
Blot of Michigan, the best pivot
man developed in the west in the
last few years, is first choice fer CELL
ter, with Garbisch of the Army a
close second. Both are rowing cen
ters and adept at kicking field goals.
Pfann 70 Cornell is almost the
unanimous choice for the quarter
back position. He received moro
votes than any other player elected
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Milstead of Yale who was well liked
by the coaches.
Pfann is a f~our-threat man, He
can run kick, forward pass and re-
ceive. lie is probably the greatest
football player of the season and
the highest scorer in the entire
country.
The halfback positions go to
Grange of Illinois and Wilson of
Penn State. two shining lights of the
.92S season. These two ran a tight
ace and had a considerable margin
over the rest of the field. Grange
Is rated the fastest man on the grid
iron. Wilson. who was close behind
Grange, is a versatile athlete.
The selection of John Levi of the
Haskell Indians may come as a sur
prise to many football fans. He gets
a close decision over Mallory of Yale
and Nevers of California. Levi is a
Jim Thrope, lacking only the
ability of Thorpe to dodge.
These eleven men, representing eX-
~cellence in every department of the
game and presenting as they do a
well balanced unit, constitute a gen.
uine compliment to the coaches
throughout the country who are re
sponsible for their selection.