Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-30
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''BIG THREE" SECOND
RATERS ON CAMPS
ALl-AMER. eleven


New York, Dec. 29.-(By A. Ply
The 1924 all-American football
eleven picked by Walter Camp. dean
of gridiron authorities. is notable
chiefly for the selection of no more
than one star from any eleven In the
country and its, failure to place on
the first team any representative CT
the big three"-Harvard. Prince
ton and Yale.
The casts famous triunvirate, an
clients strongholds of the game, is
ignored on the first team for the
first time in the thirty-five years
Camps selections have been made
and regarded annually as the baro-
meter by which all other mythical
combinations are judged.
Harvard is not represented at all
in Camps selections for the first
time. the Crimson failing to place a
man on either the second or third
teams which he also picks. Previous
~ Harvard had failed only in the
war year of 1918 to have an entry
on the first eleven. Yale, although
1t finished it's second straight sea-
son without defeat, is recognized on
~ on the second team. with Captain
Lovejoy ct center and Duck Pond
in the backfield. Princeton Is on
even basis in this respect, the Tigers
having Beattie at guard and Slagle
at quarterback on the second string
combination.
Geographically, the 1924 selections
are well distributed, for on the first
team the east has six representa-
tives. the middle west four and the
far west one. Among the thirty
three stars included in the three
combinations, the east leads with
sixteen, the middle west has ten, the
far west six and the south one.
Three players are recognized OH
the first team for the second time.
They are Harold (Red Grange,
famous Illinois back, and out
standing individual. star of the year;
Ed Garoisch, army center who re-
turns to the post he held In 1922,
and Homer Hazel, Rutgers, who was
picked as an end In 1923 and full
back this season.
Horrell OF California also is out
OF position, although he previously
has not been on Camps first eleven.
He Is at guard on the 1924 list but
HIS regular post IS center.
Six captains arc included in the
first team. Besides Horrell and
Garbisch, they are Bjorkman OF
Dartmouth and Berry of Lafayette,
ends; f. Weir of Nebraska, tackle,
and Walter Koppisch. three time
Columbia leader and backfield star,
the first Columbia player to gain 4
place on the first team since 1903.
Camps choices vary radically
VI h hA kyty -
gridiron critics who all-star selec-
lions already have been published.
He selects Bjorkman and Berry, two
fasteners, for first string ends,
whereas a majority of eastern
critics rated this pair below Iuman
of Yale, who is not mentioned at all
Cross, who is placed on the third
team.
Slaughter of Michigan, placed Mt
guard. also was overlooked in most
published selections, while Diehl of
DARTMOUTH and CorwicIS of West Point,
generally chosen by other critics as
all-castern guards, find no place in
Camps array.
Notre Dame, despite its recognition
as the country's outstanding eleven,
fares poorly in the selection. Harry
Stuhldreher field marshal of the
-Four Horsemen." as the Notre Dame
backfeld was known, is the only
Hoosier on the first team. One of his
running mates. Jimmy Crowley, is Ola
the second outfit, while Adam Walsh,
captain and widely selected as first
all-American center by others, is in
tic third combination. Elmer Layden.
Notre Dane fullicck and also chosen
fer first honors in other quarters, is
not mentioned.
Harold Shidler. University of WASH
ington back who led the Pacific coast
scorers, and Hcinie Denkert, Rutgers
star, who topped the eastern scoring
array. also are unmentioned in the
Camp list
The lineups Of the three teams Sc
lected by Camp and published in Col
licrs. follows:
First eleyen-End, Bjorkman, Dart
mouth; tacdle, Mckinley. Pennsylva-
mia; guard, Slaughter. Michigan: cen.
ter. Garbisch. West Point; guard. Hor-
roll, California; tackle. f. Weir, Me-
braska: end. Berry, Lafayette; quarter.
back. Stuhldrefer, Notre Dame; half
back. Grange. Illinois; halfback. Kop-
pisch, Columbia; fullback, Hazel: Rut-
gers.
Second eleven End, Wakefield. VAN
derbilt; tackle, Beattie, Princeton.
guard, Abramson. Minnesota: center,
Lovejoy, Yale: guard, Pondeiik, Chica-
go; tackle. Waldorf, Syracuse; end,
Lawson, Stanford; quarterYac' Slagel,
Princeton; halfback, Pond, Yale: half
back, Wilson, University IF Washing
ten; fuiiback, Crowley, Eotre Dame.
Third eleven-End, Mahapey, Holy
Cross: tackle. Wissinger. Pittsburgh;
guard. Fleckenstein, Iowa: center.
Walsh, Notro Dame; guard, Mahan,
west Virginia; tackle, Gowdy. Chicago;
end. frazer, West Point; quarterback,
stivsrs. Idaho; halfback, Inlay. Cali
fofnia; halfbacls, Keefer, Brown: full
back, strader. st. Mary's California;.