The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-30
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WALSH HAS
ALL STAR
ARRAY
Grange, Wilson, oberlander
and Movers Best of Many
Good Backs
b. DAVIS ]. WALSH

by DAVIS De w tAA&OAA
International News Service Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-The
unfortunate individual of fable
and fancy, who was caught with
. sieve when it began to rain
duck soup may now look back
upon his life with the philosophic
serenity of one to whom blessings
are not unknown. He wasn't
backfield man during the late
football season.
Never before in the history of
the sport have so many good backs
been turned loose during one and
the same campaign The country
simply was overrln with bright
young men who were willing to
start at the top and work upward
and one could guarantee to hit an
All-American bacl1field candidate
with handful of cigar ashes at
any given time, place and distance.
This means that, with only twelve
pQaitions on three aII-An1erican
teams to be distributed. many a
deserving youth must run for the
end book. The writer has named
Grange. Wilson. OberIandze and
Nevers for his first team backfield;
Friedman, Hubert, SIagle and
Eiournoy are found in the second
team combination and Kaer, rryon.
McCarty and Wyckoff in the third.
One could reverse the order. and
the first team might suffer little
Or not at all
However. few win take Issue
with the statement that Grange
Rnd Oberlander belong, In spite
o. the fact that one local critic
dc 70 so far - TO place Grange
On ms third team. This Is . good
TICK. whether you do e or not.
The fact that Grange PLAYED
quarterback for at least half OF
the campaign eliminates Friedr1a.
from first team consideration al
though the University of Michfxan
probably Will want the writer shot
long before sunrise Hubert Also
~ plausible candidate and The.
south thinks he is the greatest
fnlng that ever happened: yet it
doesn't seem logical to remove men
Ike Wilson and Nevers even for 4
49, u ia A4uBEIl y 4b3IUS.
Neither does # seem logical to
overlook such as Hagerty and
Plansky, OF Georgetown; Keefer, OF
Brown; Rhoades. OF Nebraska;
Whitman, OF Missouri: INLAY and
Griffin, Of California Kreuz. of
: Pennsylyania: Britton, of Illinois.
Carr. OF Syracuse; Cory, of Ames:
Aolenda, Of Michigan; Hewitt and
Wtlsons Of the Army: Kirkleslri. OF
4zafayette; Borrell. CT Muhlenbero.
ana dozen others. Yet 1t has TO
Oddly enough, there are few out.
standing figures among the for
wards, Barring Weir, of Nebraska.
and Brown, Of Michigan. Both win
come pretty close to being unani-
nous choices for the team this
season, although some have cues
TONED the consistency OF Browns
passing at Centre. Weir, however.
IS fool-proof.
Brown has two great rivals in
Hutchinson, Of Nebraska. and
Mcmillan, Of Princeton, and Low.
cry, OF Northwestern, Is q third.
Hutchinson and Weir are the
men who stopped Grange for two
straight seasons, while McMiIlan's
play against Yale and Harvard
was beautiful 10 behold. II seems
almost Z nlisden 'eanOr TO put him
ON the third team.
Weir Is the great tackle of the
year, the others being merely good.
Lindenmeyer, of Missouri, probably
was the most consistent, and the
writer places him on the first team,
although Chace, of Pittsburgh, is
a most highly esteemed individual.
Sprague, of the Army; Parker, of
Dartmouth: Erickson, OF Washing
ton; Wilcox. OF Oklahoma; Hender-
son. OF Chicago; Nelson, of Wiscon-
sin; Lyons, OF Amherst; Kearney,
of Cornell. and Sieracli, of Penn
sylvania. We're among the leaders
At the position. but the quality Of
tackle play was not high this year,
on the whole.
+. The ends, however, were good
and Oosterbaan, OF Michigan, and
FULLY. of Dartmouth, are believed
10 be the best. They were gre 81:
receivers of the pass and the
of their work on attack and defense
was above reproach. Sloan, of
Drake, was an excellent man. So
3 was Born. Of the Army, particular
e.