The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-21
ms Hope for Slam Bang Battle as Petrolle and McLarnin Fight
Walter Camp Definitely Assumes
All America ArbiterShip in 1898
Herschberger, Chicago, First
Westerner to Gain Place
on Honor Eleven

ASSOCIATED Press :Sports Editor
The war year Of 1898 created almost
as big an upheaval in football as the
Spanish-American unpleasantness did
in Cuba.
! The All-America authorship passed
| definitely from the hands of Caspar
| Whitney to Walter Camp, although
for several years the selections of
each continued to attract national in
terest. Camps closer connection with
the development and legislation of the
game widened his prestige.
The year marked the inclusion of q
mid-western player. the famous G. b.
| Herschberger of Chicago, for the first
time. The old barriers of the east were
yielding, somewhat grudgingly, 1t must
be admitted, to the rapid advance of
the west in producing skillful and we'll
trained talent. Hitherto only Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell had been admitted
to the company of the old Big Three
in All-America honors.
Western Star Places
New factors and influences were be-
ing felt. Western colleges capitalized
the kicking game. Herschberger, Chi
Cages fullback, was an expert booter.
but Pat O'Dea Of Wisconsin was even
better. O'Dea dropkicked a 62-yard
goal against Northwestern that year.
The rules were in better shape,
more generally lived up to, after e
eral years of pickering. In 1895 two
sets of rules existed, one sponsored
by Princeton, Navy and Yale, the
other by Cornell, Harvard and Penn
sylvania.
This was due to the refusal of Har-
ward and Penn to accept the drastic
abolition Of momentum mass plays,
such IS the guards back" formation
made famous by the Quakers. The lat
ter carried their point, and the new
rules specified only five men must be
on the offensive line of scrimmage.
The present rule requires seven.
Two Critics Disagree
Whitney and Camp disagreed in
three positions when 1t came to max
ing up their 1898 All-America COM
binations. Whitney picked Cunning
ham Of Michigan for center. Mcbride
of Yale for q halfback, and Romeyn
Of West Point for fullback. Camp Sc
lected Overfield Of Pennsylvania, Out
land of Pennsylvania. and Hersch-
berger Of Chicago for these posts.
Charley DAILY Of Harvard, the quar-
terback choice, later distinguished
himself at West Point. He is the only
man to represent two institutions on
the All-America roster. Percy Haugh-
ton, later famous as Harvard's head
coach, was a tackle in the Crimson
line and second string All-America.
I~ntersectional Games Help
1ntersectional games helped bring
the east and midwest into closer re-
lationship and exploit the new stars
being developed beyond the Ale
ghenies. Chicago came east in 1893 to
play Pennsylvania.
On the Pacific coast California,
coached by Garrett Cochran of
Princeton. beat Stanford for the first
time in nine years by q score of 22-O.
Cochran was the 1897 Princeton cap
tain and one of the greatest ends Of
his time. He followed Heffelfinger as
tutor of the boys at Berkeley.
Pennsylvania and Cornell played
their annual Thanksgiving day game
at Philadelphia in a raging blizzard.
Torn0rrow-The RuleA Tirhten.