The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-21
OFFICIALS AND
COACHES NAME
TOPN0TCH PAIR
Warner Mizell and Stumpy
ThomassOn Are Great But
Not Good Enough
MANY STARS IN SOUTH
Billy Banker Does Everything
But Buy Railroad Tickets
for Tulane
Nv BOB MATHERNE

Five fellows, all Of them close
students Of southern football, were
sitting in a south-bound Pullman
after the recent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
football game and they were talking
southern football. Mostly, one should
say, players.
One of them was Wallace Wade,
| Alabama coach, and two were his
assistants, Henry Crisp and Shorty
Propst. Another was Everett Strup-
per, one Of the best backs Georgia
Tech ever has had and now one of
the best officials in the south, and
the fifth was another southern Off
cial, DR.. Lambert, who learned his
football at Ohio State.
Every important southern team
had been seen by at least one of this
group this season. And most of the
fellows whom you've been hearing
about this fall were seen last year
several times.
Two Are Outstanding
From their talk, one gathered this:
The two outstanding backs in the
south this year are Billy Banker of
Tulane and Jimmy Armistead Of
Vanderbilt.
Did someone rise and ask about
Warner Mizell and Stumpy Thomas
son Of Georgia Tech? Yes, they
mentioned their names quite often
but somehow or other one got the
idea listening in that Banker and
Armistead were just bit better as
individuals than Mizell and Thomas
son are.
One fellow said this:
There are so many good backs at
Georgia Tech and Tech has such q
powerful line that one back more or
less doesn't matter. They have
too many good backs. Thomasson
hasn't been carrying the ball much
this season, but his presence in the
backfield worries a team to death.
On defense, he can't be beaten.
Mizell does everything, but this
Banker and Armistead-"
j. Has Many Backs
j And that is how it went for an
hour or so. There are q number of
excellent backs in the south this
year, including some sophomores who
will be heard of plenty in the future,
. but Banker and Armistead, despite
, the fact that they were stopped when
J their teams played Georgia Tech,
seem to have the call over the rest.
Bill Munday, an Atlanta sports
. writer, couldn't write enough nice
things about Banker after he saw
the blond blizzard in action.
, Hes the greatest halfback I've
ever seen," Munday wrote for hi,
, newspaper. "He does everythins
, for Tulane but buy the railroad tick
3 cts. He plays sixty minutes ever,
t game, kicks off, punts, passes
!, catches passes, and plays safety 4.
: few men can. And he does all hi,
4 work behind woefully weak interfer
ence."
\ Perhaps it is that thought tina
reigned in the talk of the five gentle
5 men mentioned above. Banker ism
Y getting much assistance from a yer,
: powerful line this year, nor is h
i aided by a crew Of hard-blockin,
!: backs, but he's getting there jus
), the same. Seems he is right aroun
/. the top in scoring points, isn't he?
n Armistead vs.. Spears
t. You heard nothing except Bill
Spears at Vanderbilt last year. tn
e greatest ever in the south and s
Y forth. He was a splendid footbal
h player, everyone will admit, bu
: they're saying Armistead is Just a
e good this year and that is hig
il praise.
It Some say Armistead is the bes
n all-round back in the south this yea,
y even better than Banker. He
= running at quarterback instead {
'e fullback for Col. McGugin this ia
10 and, although he was stopped b
ID Georgia Tech, as Banker was, va
e can't hold that against him. Geo.
'e gia Tech can stop just any of then
W Armistead does all the things "a
Vanderbilt that Banker does for T,
lane.
. And you have to give these fellow
who were talking on that footba
= train that night credit for KNOWN
their football in Dixie. No one ca
deny that. And when you get read
to pick your all-this or all-that, va
might remember that Banker an
Armistead are pretty good, eve
though their teams are not und
feated ones.