Evening star., 1930-12-02
Red Grange Hailed as Most Sensational
Of AUAmerica Choices of Past Decade
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.
Nh 11-ramn,s Last Team.

NOs 1A-NhAupS AoSS 1S~AAA'
Wv WHERE foot ball in early days
XAI had to contend with the OBJ
" " vious objections to slugging
and brutal mass play, it ex-
perienced the first tw!nges of over
emphasis, the effects of the ''ballyhoo," ="
at the outset of the boom decade" now
drawing to q close.
Faculties viewed with alarm the i'm
portance placed upon gridiron success
by the alumni, If not the undergraduates.
College presidents began to decry the
hippodromes and spectacles, reformers
cast about for ways and means to check
quite natural growth in and enthu-
siasm for the greatest of American col
lege sports.
One of the first targets fired at was
the "All-America team" It overempha-
sized the individual to the detriment Of
the team and himself, critics asserted.
Moreover, they added, 1t had become
impossible for any man, even Walter
Camp, to pass qualified judgment on
thousands of star players and IN all
fairness to name the IL best"
HOWEVER, even the death of Camp
i in the Spring of 1925 failed to
prevent or discourage the annual
All-America epidemic. In 1922 Spal-
ding's Guide, edited by Camp, yielded to
pressure to the extent Of no longer pub
fishing the all-star selections.
Instead, an innocuous list of "merito-
rious performers" was given. and still Is:
In the 1922 book IA pages were devoted
to the list Of foot ball boys who had
made good In after life, the inference
being that 1t was more Of an achieve
nent for foot ball player TO make good
than for the holder Of q Phi Beta Kappa
key or a crewn1an or an acrobat.
Seeking the reasons for the tremen-
douS popular growth of foot ball, Camp
In 1922 attributed 1t, first, to the more
attractive style Of play; second, to the
newspapers giving far greater space to
the game than ever before.
Camp saw the Yale Bowl, seating
$4,000. completed, but he did not live
to witness q crowd of $4,000 filling
Chicago'S Soldier Field or know Of ar
rangements to accommodate 105, 900 In
the Los Angeles Coliseum.
TUsT as Babe Ruth built" bigger
y base ball parks. such foot bali sensa-
tions as Red Grange, the -Four Horse
men" or NotTe Dame and Red eagle
were factors In drawing record-break-
ing foot ball gates"
Gridiron heroicS and drama caught
the fancy Of the sports public as well
as the "old grads" and the colleges
built bigger and better stadia to accom-
modate the cash customers.
Grange has by all odds been the most
sensational Of the All-AmericaS Of the
past decade. The ace Of the nlini Is
the only three-time selection Of the
past eight years. He was on Camps
last team, 1924, and selected again the
next year by the mass Of experts ear
rying on the All-America task with
vigorous ambition.
Camp, as It turned ont, made his
last all-star list epociaAl by failing TO
name q single representative Of the an
cient Eastern Zig Three" which had
in early days monopolized the selec-
tions. :
His first eleven represented as many
different colleges.
The father Of foot ball" passed on
with o final tribute 10 the tremendous
national growth Of the sport he helped
develop when he was coach, captain
and star at "Old Yale" q half century
earlier.
Tomorrow National Polls Begin.