The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-20
Pennsylvania and Cornell Are First to
Give Big Three Strong Competition
Slugging at One Time So Com
mon That It Didn't A.
tract Notice
BY ALAN GOULD

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer)
BY the time the Mauve Decade was
in full swing Leland Stanford and
California had begun to develop foot
ball teams under eastern coaching,
mass-momentum plays were being
restricted by new gridiron legisla-
ton and Pennsylvania had entered
the charmed eastern circle, making 1t
a Big Four"
Football unquestionably was de-
veloping. Caspar Whitney, the orig
inator of the All-America idea. in
making his 1894 selections. included
three Pennsylyanians in his list,
where in five previous years only two
wearers Of the Red and Blue had
been so honored.
Cornell also had become a factor
to be reckoned with, producing teams
that gave a good account of them
selves against the Old Guard. Mich
igan led in the west.
Faced With Attacks.
At the time, football had to combat
attacks against its alleged brutality
and roughness. Whitney wrote:
II have had ample and amusing
illustrations (of e~xaggeration) In the
last few weeks, while the hue and cry
against smuggling In football has been
rampant.
THE good old days to which peo-
pie refer, instead Of being gentler,
were in fact productive Of more slug
cling in n season than VIZ have
in two or three. Slugging vas once
SO commonplace a feature Of football
games that it attracted no particular
notice either from the umpire or
spectators"
There was more criticism of the
roughness of the Harvard-Yale game
at Springfield, Whitney noted. than
In all the rest Of the games of the
year. Relations between the Crimson
and Blue we're broken off. as a result
Of differences, and not patched up
until 1897.
whitney Recognized Blockers
Noteworthy in Whitney's basis for
making All America selections was
his recognition Of the backfield
DlOChC1 VIC 1JIdll VIII C1ColCu VIC
way for the flasher ~ball-carrier.
This contrasts with the more mod
ern notion of paying chief attention
to the youth who scores the touch
down, rather than to the boys who
cleared his path.
Thus Whitney selected Knipe for
his backfield in preference to the
more sensational Win Osgood OF
Pennsylvania. Osgood vas the Red
Grange Of his day, but his brilliant
runs Of so, IS and As yards for touch
downs against Harvard, Whitney
noted, were mainly due to Knipe,s
fine interference.
Knipe, Brooke and Osgood were
factors in PENIS clean-cut victories
over both Harvard and Princeton in
1894. Another Red and Blue star was
Charles S. Colbert, selected three
times as All-Anerica end and the
father of Charley Colbert, sensational
shortstop Of the st. Louis Cardinals
1880 National League champions.
Hinkey, Butterworth Heroes
Two Yale heroes whose names have
come down through the years, Frank
Hinkey and Frank ~Butterworth, were
members Of the 1894 All-Americs
combination: Hinkey for the fourth
successive year, Butterworth at full.
back for the second time.
When all-time ends are named
Hinkey invariably heads the list. slim
but wiry and aggressive, Hinkey hae
a gift for anticipating opposing play.
and spilling them. Butterworth, thu
line buster, possessed "a remarkable
knack Of getting his men together
and working up their enthusiasm"
George Adee Of Yale and Boil
Wrenn of Harvard, powers In thu
tennis world, were quarterback rivals
with the Eli star carrying off maj1
honors. Wrenn was national singles
tennis champion while In college an<
won the title four times altogether.
Tomorrow-Walter Camp arrives.