The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-01
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O'Brien to Pass, Hall to Run, Goldberg, Blocking
 and TiptOn to Kick
By HARRY FERGUSON
 United Press Sports EritOr) Copyright. 1898, by United Pressl

Copyright, 1888, by United Press)
 New York, Dec. 1-'(UP) = The United Press presents today its 1888 All-America football team-the best players in their positions chosen out of the thousands who have made this season one of. the greatest in the history of the college sport.
 The team was chosen by men who have spent the autumn sitting in press boxes, by coaches who have taken their teams from one end of the country to the other, by scouts whose business it is to spot the strength and weaknesses of indivi- dual players.
 The personnel of the team was decided after a lengthy and compli- cated process that attempted to search out the best players, whether they come from & small, obscure school or one of the nations great universities. Toward the end of the season sports writers on newspapers, coaches, scouts and United Press football writers across the country were asked to send in nominations for the all-America team.
 Hundreds of names rolled in, some known to fame, some who had never been heard of outside of their own sections. Coaches and scouts sent with their nominations and reasons for making them with speci- fic games and players in which players had proved their greatness.
 Then the nominations were com- piled, ballots were prepared and a list of the nominations attached to them. These ballots went back to coaches, scouts, newspaper sports writers and United Press football writers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Each man was requested to choose a first, second and third team and 8 point system was per- fected for compiling the votes.
 Out of those ballots came the all- American team, II men that any coach would welcome. To assure an unbiased vote and to avoid em- barrassment for any coach who might want to leave one of his own star players of the team, the Unit ed Press promised to keep the iden- tity of the coaches secret if they so desired.
 Two great teams-Texas Christian and PittSburgh-layed two men each on the first team. Other schools represented on the first team were Notre Dame, Michigan, Tennessee, Santa Clara, Villanova, Duke and Mississippi.
 Under the point system, perfect score would be 360.
 The players with their qualifica- tions and the number of points they received:
 Louis Daddio, Pittsburg, PIT points. He is a crashing end on a crashing team that experts con- slider one of the best in the country despite two defeats. This year he scored one touchdown, made 18 conversions after touchdown and kicked two field goals. Stout on de- fenSe and streak on offenSe, he kicked off for Pittsburgh with Mar shall Goldberg holding the ball.
 John Wysocki. Villanova, 189 points. An end on last years Unit ed Press All-America, he was both- cred by injuries in some of this seasons games, but he remained a cat-like, smart player who crowded opposing kickers all the time and specialized in blocking puntS. He is fine pass receiver and is 8 big part of the Villanova offense on end-around plays. His closest com- petitors for the first team were Holland of Cornell with 178 points and Wyatt of Tennessee with 168 points.
 TACKLES
 Joseph Beinor, Notre Dame, 268 points. Everybody who voted for Beinor at all placed him on the first team except three men. Two of them put him on the second team and one on the third. He has been an outstanding player in the Notre Dame line for the last two years. In the Army game, when Notre Dame was hard pressed, it was his great defensive play that halted the rush of the Cadets and enabled the Irish to come up to the final game unbeaten and united.
 Alvin Wolff, Santa Clara, 187 points. Standing six feet, two inch- es tall and weighing 220 pounds, he is completing three years of outstanding football on the Pacific Coast where football is tough. With all his weight, Wolff is a demon at covering punts and gets down the field even with or ahead of his own ends. Persons who have seen him say they have never known a time when he has been "Suckered" on 8 play.
 GUARDS
 Ralph Heikkinen, Michigan, 226 points. He dominated the voting for guard on ballots from East, West, South and North. He has a trick on defense of jamming the opposition line and making hole for. 8 team-mate to go through and get the ball carrier. On offense he. excels in swinging out to lead the interference and often gets in two blocks on play. Motion pictures of the Ohio State Michigan game | show Heikkinen jamming opposing linesmen back from one to three yards on almost every play. He is so good that four professional teams have approached him, but he wants | to study law.
 Bob Lee Suffridge, Tennessee, 140 | points. To him goes the unusual | distinction of being an All-America player in his sophomore year. Mai. Bob Neyiand, Tennessee coach, said Che $ one of the greatest open l field blockers and tacklers have ever seen" Great at diagnosing |