New Britain herald., 1930-12-02
W alter Camps l
 First Team
No. 1l-CamD's Last Team
 By ALAN GOULD { cSoriated Press Shorts E,ditorl

Where football in early days had 10 contend with the obvious objec- tions 10 sluggng and brutal mass play. ii experienced the first tWinges of oyer-emphasis, inc effects of the "ballyhoo." at tho outset of the boom decade" now drawing to a close.
 Faculties viewed with alarm the importance placed upon gridiron success-by the al mnt, if not the undergraduate College presidents he gan 10 decry the hippodromes and spectacles, reformars cast about for ways and means 10 check q quite natural growth in and enthusiasm for the greatest of American college sports.
 one of the first targets fired at was the "All-America team.' It ovcr-cmphasized the individual to the detriment If tho team and him. self, critics ass ertod. Moreover, they added, it had become impos- siblc for any one man, even Walter Camp, to pass qualified judgment on thousands of star players and in all fairness to name the eleven best"
 However, even the death of Camp in the spring Of 1925 failed 10 pre- vent or discourage the annual AL America. epidemic. In 1922, Spald- ing's Guide, edited by Camp. yield cd to pressure 10 the extent Of no longer publishing the all-star selec- uons.
 Instead, an innocuous list Of 'meritorious performers was given and still is. In the 1922 book, 14 pages were devoted 10 the list of football boys who had made good in after-litc, the inference being that it was more Of an achievement for d. football player 10 make good than for the holder Of q Phi Beta Kappa key or a crcnnan or a0 acrobat.
 Seeking tho reasons for the tre- mendous popular growth of foot ball, Camp in 1422 attributed it. first, to the more attractive style Of play; second, Q the ncn spapcra. giv- ing far greater space to the game than ever before,
 Camp saw the Yale bowl. seating 75, 900, completed but he did not live to witness a crowd Of 193.0G0 filling Chicago's Soldier Field or know of arrangements 10 accommodate 105,- 000 in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
 Just as Babe Ruth built" bigger baseball parks, such football sensa = tions as Red Grange. the -Four Horsemen' of Notrc Dame and Red cagle, were factors in drawing rec ord breaking football gates"
 Gridiroh heroics and drama caught the fancy of the sports pub lie as well as the old grads and the colleges built bigger and better stadia 10 accommodate the cash customers.
 Grange has by all odds been the most sensational of the An-Amerj- cas of the past decade. The ace of the Illini is the only three-time se- lection Of the past eight years. He was on Camps last team, 1924, and selected again the next year by the mass of experts carrying on the All America task with vigorous ambi- ton.
 Camp. as if turned out. made his last all-star list cpochal by failing to name single representative of the ancient eastern Big Three, '' which had in early days monopo- lized the selections.
 His first eleven represented as many different colleges.
 The father of football" passed on with q final tribute to the tre- mendous national growth of the sport he helped develop when he was coach, captain and star at "Old Yale" a half century earlier.
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