The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-27
FAVORITE SONS
BEING BOOSTED
FOR POSITIONS
Difficult Assignment in Store
For Choosers - Joesting
Again Is High Man
FLANAGAN is FAVORED
OOsterbaan, Drury, WEIGH, Gil
bert. Spears, Lane, Witt
ncr Also Touted
FLANAGAN is FAVORED
BY ALAN J. GOULD
Associated Press Sports Editor

New York, Oct. 27.-tP-The
race for all-American football hon
ors this year, particularly among
the backfield men, is under way
with the ballyhoo for various candi-
dates being sounded in all sectors
of the college gridiron front.
Before the touchdown harvest is
completed, it promises to develop
many a warm debate over sectional
favorites.
CALDER Is High
From a random survey Of the field
it seems that the number and cali
Der Of ball-carriers is the highest
it has been since 1925, when the ex-
perts staggered through the job Of
trying to find a backfield "big
FOUR out Of collection that only
included such satellites as Red
Grange, Ernie Nevers, George Will
son, Eddie Tryon, Bonnie Friedman
Peggy" Tourney, Jake Slagle
and Swede Oberlander.
Another month may shift the
prospect but it looks like another
difficult assignment in selecting
the all-American cast from an array
that now numbers such stars as
Bill Spears of Vanderbilt; Christy
Flanagan of Notre Dame; Herb joe
sting Of Minnesota. 1925 all-Amer-
lean; Myles Lane Of Dartmouth
eastern high scorer; Ed Wittner
Princeton's sophol..ore ace; Bill
Amos of Washington and jefferson;
Morley Drury of Southern Cali
fornia; Glenn Fresnell of Nebraska;
"Gibby' WEIGH Of Pittsburgh; Louis
Gilbert o. Michigan; Bruce Caldwell
Of Yale, "Tiny" Lewis Of Northwes-
tern. Frank Briant Of New York
univcrsity's SEQ. ing machine and
'"Stubby" Thomson of Georgia
Techs Golden Tornad-
These stars are enjoying the spot
light while most Of the linemen
heave anC pus in the obscurity that
accompanies mass action but al
ready such forwards as Bonnie Cos
terbaan, Michigan captain and end;
Sprague, giant Army tackle; Lang
dell, Dartmouth tackle, and Tim
Clark, giant Harvard tackle, have
been conspicuous.
The policy Of non-scouting, ar
experiement in football, among /;
number Of leading college; in the
east this season, may be less ir
vogue when another gridiron- cam.
paign rolls around, if present indi-
cations are gauge.
While it has been pronounced a
success" by several institutions
among which Vale is a leader, others
believe instead Of eliminating So
called "evils," it may lead to sub
terfuges less desirable than an
open-and- board policy Of
scouting.
Cornell Opposed
Cornell, for instance, has declined
to enter into any non-scouting
agreements this season and is def
nitely opposed to such a policy
Harvard, while trying it out, is I'M
derstood to oppose renewing any
non-scouting agreements next year
with the possible exception Of that
with Yale.
"Scouting'-to quote one promi-
ncnt official-''has been and still
is, generally speaking, part of the
game. 1t helps eliminate lot OF
the coaches guesswork. Perhaps il
was overdone in many instances, es-
pecially when motion pictures began
to be put into use but under ordi-
nary circumstances it seems fair
and desirable. It develops contacts
and associations of a friendly sort
in most cases, ra err than arousine
suspicion. The latter, it seems, is
more likely to be developed under
non-scouting agreements than other
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