Evening star., 1928-11-28
REPEATERS PROVE
ARARE EXCEPTION
Player May Gain LimeIight
One Year and Be Victim
of Hurts in Next.
BY ALAN j. GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, November $3.50
N uncertain are foot balls shifts,
VI so likely are miShaps or in
4 jurieS to beset the path of any
gridiron star that it's rare
when any performer can weather the
storm with a consistently brilliant
record.
Now and then an Oosterbaan. a
eagle, Strong, Pfann or Dutch" Clark
comes along to do the iron man stunt,
keeping up the pace right down to the
finish, but they do not come very
often. They are the exceptions to the
rule that usually finds even the great
est of stars having their of days or
jinkes.
Go back few years and recall how
Red Grange was stopped in his tracks
by Nebraska one Saturday, only to
break loose on another against Pensyl-
vania for one Of the most rampant
afternoons of his career. In the mud
that day Red lugged the ball some
thing like So times for an average gain
of IL yardS-a first down with some
thing to spare every time he started.
After that Grange couldn't have been
pried from an all-American post.
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more fresh in the popular mind, Bruce
Caldwell of Yale came down to the eve
of the last two big games, those against
Princeton and Harvard, with every pros
pect of being a unanimous choice for
the all-American team. But old man
eligibility dealt Bruce Knockout and
he passed abruptly from the picture.
This year bad breaks have affected
the all-American prospects OF at least
a half dozen outstanding players. Red
man Hume of Southern Methodist
looked like one of the best backs in
the land when he came North to play
the Army early in october. He out
shone eagle that day and it's pretty
well known what eagle has been doing
since then. But Hume was put out
of action in the battle with Texas a
month later and hasn't been able to do
much of anything since, although the
points he rang up earlier were sufficient
to keep him in the Southwest scoring
lead.
Two of the greatest tackles, Capt.
Sprague of Army and Capt. HibbS OF
Southern California, also have been
handicapped by injuries. Sprague was
knocked out of three or four of West
Points games, although he has been a
tower of strength whenever IN the
game, whether groggy or not. He has
worn a special nose guard most OF the
season.
Hibbs saw little action throughout
the early stages because Of back and
knee ailments, but he has come strong
at the close of the campaign to help
Southern California lift the Pacific
Coast Conference crown. Don Williams,
the Trojan quarterback, also has en-
countered handicaps In an effort to
carry on the all-American glamour OF
Kaer and Drury.
AL Lassman, giant New York Univer-
sity captain and tackle, who broke his
leg in action over year ago, was
carried off again in the great game
with Carnegie, this time with a con-
cussion, but not before he saw his
team well on the way to victory in its
next to last game.
Dud Charlesworth, badly hurt in
Yale's 1927 game with Harvard, has
failed to recover his brilliant form at
center this year, being replaced at the
finish. Johnny Garvey is another Eli
victim of injuries.
AL Marsters of Dartmouth had his
spectacular dasheS checked by injuries
and did not return to form until time
to make it unpleasant for Cornell again.
There wasn't a fleeter back in the
country in 1927 than Galloping al, but
he has another year in which to try
to scale the all-American heights II.