The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-29

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ram was called on to carry the bah
thirtY.eight times. Heston responded
by carrying the ball go yards.
Red Grange, in his spectacular
playing against Michigan twenty
years afterwards, carried the ball
for Illinois 270 yards.
Minnesota hadn't been scored on
during the entire season Of 1910.
until the last ten minutes OF the
last game on. its schedule. The big
team had scored 10 points to the
opposition's none up to that mo-
ment. The final game was played
at Ann Arbor and the Michigan
team had been going smoothly and
effectively throughout the season,
but wasn't 2 heavy scoring aggre-
cation.
When quarterback Mcmillan gave
the signal in the last ten minutes
OF play Wells. playing right end,
dropped back about ten yards from
his position. The other end, Bor-
leskie, placed himself in a position
where he could work in open.
1t was a deceptive looking forrna-
tlon ana the ball passed through
three hands before Il was passed
70 Walls, who threw 1t to BorIesIxie,
eighteen yards In advance to where
II was put in play. Without y mo-
ment's delay or hesitation, the same
pay was again executed success.
xully. After the second pass Bor.
leskie was stopped on the 4-yard
line. In two attempts, Wells was
sent over the line, thus spoilinT
the Gophers' lovely and spotIess
record.
Silence held for the space of
half minute, or until the crowd
got through yasping, then "a. 900
or more fans let loose juch a ROAR
the like of which virtuous old Ann
Arbor never heard before or since,
A carload Of money was lost and
won on that game, which was lost by
Minnesota, to g.,
EckerSalI stood on his k.yard
line, jumped i'm the air and grab.
bed the kickoff by the Wisconsin
team. A more spectacular run
was never witnessed on gridlrOn.
Eckersall ran log yards, chased
every inch by eleven wiId-eyed
Wisconsin players, but EcIfe
crossed the line safely, and at
that moment registered the long.
est run ever. chrOnicled In an
intercollegiate football game.
Since then four other pIayers-
McCaa, Of Lafayette; Boynton, ot
Williams: Gray, of Oberiin: Ere
hart, Of Ipdiana-have tilted the
| classic framed by w. Eckersail on
that red-letter day of his brilliant
career-November %, 1904. Ecker
sail was the only one Of the five
to take the ball from the kickoff.
It isn't SO hard to pick out the
fbest football player If all were Like
Red" Grange, Of Illinois, for a
great football player looms above
the near-great like an electric arc
light alongside of a tallow dip.
Football is q strenuous game and
only the courageous fully equipped
with all the qualifications can piay
the game to its highest point Of
perfection.
Go back TO the beginning or, when
Walter Camp began picking them
such players as Heffeifinger, Hin
key, Coy, Shevlln, Hogan and Kill
patrick, of Yale; Heston, Rembrook,
Wells, Schultz and Kiplde. of Michi-
ran: Muller, OF California;: Thorpe,
Dillon, johnson and Seneca, Ut
Carlisle; Harley, Stinchcomb, of
Ohio; Barrett, OF Cornell: Gipp and
RED" Salmon, of NOtre Dame;
Scarlet, Hare, Hollenbach and
Mercer, OF u. of Pa; Newell, Camp
bell, Daley, Marshall, Bric1xley,
Casey, OF Harvard: McNfillnn' and
Weaver, or Center; King, wheeler,
Lea, Dewitt, White, Of Princeton;
McGovern, Walker, OF Minnesota;
Carney, Of Illinois; Scott, Of wiscon-
sin, weren't hard to pick, and w.
Camp made no mistake when he
placed those players on his All
American team.
These players llarntd and q score
Of others stand ont among the
stalwarts Of the gridlron as players
who possessed all Or, nearly all
the qualifications which are neces-
sary to play the game OF football
as It should be played.
Walter Camp and Walter Ecker
sail are qualified to pick out the
best players in the paatime and the
selections made by these experts
agree with the opinion OF So per
cent Of the men who are qualified
to- OK the ability OF these experts
70 seperate the greats from the
near-greats.
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