Evening star., 1931-12-06
TROJANS AND IRISH EACH
FURNISH TWO OF ELEVEN
Schwartz Rated Greatest BackfeId Player in Foo
Ball To-day by Eminent Authority on Amateur
Sports and College Athletics.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

ali America lOOJ pail
n eleven merely is a matter
1 \ of opinion. And the opin-
ion OF any one man, or any
group Of men, is open to debate.
1t is obvious. in view of the fact
that foot ball now is played up to
the hilt in every section of the
country, that no all-eleven which
by any possibility could be Sc
lzcted would in every respect meet
with general approval.
The fact also is clear, and generally
is recognized, that conditions through
out the country vary game after game
ana that the character of opponents
and the style of game that one player
or another is called upon to meet Satur-
day after Saturday will differ radically
from men and methods that some other
outstanding player has to face Then,
too, there are those who play unknown
on minor teams. p ayers who might well
be the most gifted performers in their
various positions that the Nation could
produce.
Ihe writer has upon his desk names
ana records OF a score Of minor college
Iuminarles who, it may well be, are
qualified TO find places upon any ma
tionsl All-America eleven, but the
fact that they have not played on teams
which stand among the gridiron elect
and hence have not attracted the at
tentlon of national critics, outlaws them
and the reasons why they must be
ignored are too obvious to require
argument.
Hard TO Do Justice to All.
AS a matter Of fact, there are so
many major eleyens these Gays that the
problem Of dong justice to all who
are worthy OF a place upon the AL
America Is almost impossible of Solu-
tlon. And so the best that a critic
Sucn as the Writer-can do is to apply
such knowledge of foot ball-gained
through many years Of following the
game-as he possesses to see as many
teams as POSSIBLE in action and to
supplement information personally OBJ
tanned by the op Mons of men whose
judgment he has long trusted and for
whose technical opinions he has high
respect.
In weighing the relative ability of
various candidates he should consider
not only their individual merits. but
their value to the teams upon which
they have played.
Without design but just because It
worked out that way, The writer's team
Is widely representative of thu Nation
Players are named from The Far west,
the South, the MidlandS. the Midole
Atlantic and the New England sections
AL Of them, so national has become he
game Of intercollegiate foot ball. are
players whose names will be famillar 10
foot ball followers in every Cection of
the country and they ara set down as
members Of the 1881 galaxy with the
conviction tlat it forms a group worthy
ct place among the all-America teams
OF the past Two decades
DalSymple Delights Heart
Jerry Dalrymple is one Of those ends
VINO delights the heart of 4 coach Fast
as the wind, unerring as a tackler i,een
as oiagnoSsician. ScGrnful of inter-
terence, he played alWeys an important |
p2rS in the success CT his eleven this
year and last. One sess him ranging
over the field and at times his play
has been criticized Is unorthodoX. At |
any rate he seldom has guessed wrong. |
As a pass receiver he has few equals.
Smith of Georgia is one of the best |
competitors the writer ever saw. In the |
New York University and Tulane Eames |
he was ganged repeatedly by three men, |
but it was rare, indeed, that he did not |
bring his man to earth He was con-
stantly tonic to his eleven, was fast
downfeld, good pass receiver and an
unerring goal kicker There were many
times when Georgia looked, simply
through Smiths energy end activity. rs
though she had IS defenders on the
field.
Ira Hardy is one of those big, driving.
brawny young giants who did as much
damage in rival backfelds as the writer
has seen a tackle do this year. In the
Yalo game Harvard had him play n
floating tackle quite a lot and he did
this as well as any tackle ever did it.
For three periods in the Yale game he
served more than any two Of his fellows
or any three, to hold the Els without q
touchdown.
Kurth of Notre Dame is as fine n
tackle as ever played the game. He had
TO be to shine as he did in the NOtre
Dame-Southern California contest. Dev-
sstating in defensive play. he opened
hole after hole on defense against what
ever line, and in every detail Of play IN
his position he stands as a model and
an exemplar.
All Guard ShOld Be.
Clarence Mum Of Minnesota exem-
plifles all that the modern guard should
be. AS a man ahead Of the ball he
blocks in a manner beyond denial. A
superb punter. a splendid pasSer, an in
oomitable charger on defense and an
unerring tackler, Mum hardly will fail
TO appear upon an all-America outfit
by whomever selected.
John Baker is guard Of similar type,
with the added asset Of sharp-ShOot-
ing ability in placement kicking AS
he plavnI TgFnr7Ca
much Cfense, so lethal was his charg-
ing, 50 flaWless his ability to find the
man with the ball and to dump him.
on offenSe his blocking out was the
last word in precision and general ef-
fectiveness
Daugherty f. a center developed
through play the fullback position.
Weighing about lS5 p-unds he had
rare ability to diagnose plays and his
voice, telling his team what was hap
penlng, what was going to happen. was
one Of the features Of Pittsburgh's play
this season. He had that highly de-
6irab.c faculty Of putting the ball into
play and then converting himself int,
q veritabIe interfering machine.
Shaver, in addition to his great abil
ity as a ball carrier, has revealed an
undCubted genius in field generalShiD
and it was his fire and ability to pick
spots which cerved materially in that
amazing uprising by which the Troians
scored Is points in the final period Of
cAe Notre Dame game. A great passer
string blocker. Shaver plays fullback
as well as quarter. He goes in at quar-
ter because Of a curious lack Of high
class quarters this years
S2hwar.- the Greatest.
No one Will Withhold from March
Cpi al duo