Evening star., 1940-11-26
EAGLES Fault for Having Play SteeIer Thursday Redskins Sunday

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AII-Americu Candidates
CuIIed From ID Teams
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (NAN,A0.- -
Midweek football notes: or. through
Sing Sings walls with pick and
shovel:
The au-America itch, the only
thing from which dogs are safe IN
this county, has settled upon the
land, but your correspondent will
resist it stoutly. It's my belief that
no living man is qualified to pick an
all-America team, even with the aid
of far-f1ung scouts and observers.
He can judge only by what he sees,
and the same applies to his scout
in section B, and 10 times out of 20
he has no way of telling whether
one scouts candidate is better than
another's.
Eschewing such folly, the best the
picker can do is make certain NOM
inations from his own experience.
Your agent saw IA college teams in
action this autumn. Of the players
on those teams, the following might
qualify for all-America considera-
ton:
Ends-Kelley, Cornell; Frutig,
Michigan, and Bartholomew, Yale.
Tackles-Kuzman, Fordham; Yard,
Pennsylvania.
Center-Snavely, Columbia.
Backs-Harmon, Michigan; ESh-
mont, Fordham, and Allerdice,
Princeton.
Harmon, SnoveIy Best
Of Nominations
Among these nominations, Harmon
and Snavely would be starred, and
Eshmont and Kelley would follow
close behind. That's all I can say.
I meant to have Texas A. and M.
secuted, but my scout, Hymie Caplin,
was In CUSTODY.
A team to watch in the future is
Florida, under new coaching. The
gators fired the warning signal this
year by licking Georgia and Georgia
Tech.
Lew jenkins, the lightweight
champion, and Samuel Baugh, the
singer, are fellow citizens of
Sweetwater, Tex, and Mr.. Jenkins
yields to no man in his admiration
of Mr.. Baugh-up to a point. But
you can't tell Lewis that Baugh is
a better passer than the champions
young brother, Ernest jenkins,
aged Is.
Ernest will outpass Baugh if he
goes to college" says Mr.. Jenkins.
"If he goes in for fighting, instead,
he will Outright me, though that
don't seem hardly possible"
Football World Awaits
Sniping at Schmidt
With bated breath, the football
world awaits the sound of the first
shot to be fired at Coach Francis
Schmidt of Ohio State by a down.
town quarterback in Columbus, Ohio.
It should happen any minute, for
the downtown quarterbacks are
afraid that if they don't start firing
quickly the university will beat them
to it by firing Schmidt.
There are many sure-shot kicking
specialists, or "one-play" men, in
football Harvard has the one-play
man with the best name, Henry G..
Wander Eb, who was roundly kissed
by Coach Richard Cresson Harlow
after leaving the Yale contest with
q record of three for three.
One lone rule change could make
college football 25 per cent more
exciting for the customer-viz,
adoption of the pro rule which says
that the runner is not down till the
whistle blows. The college ball
carrier is officially down the moment
either knee touches the ground. The
pros go on and on.
Leemons' Scoring Run
Kind Fans Like
Nothing intoxicates the spectator
like the sort of run Tuffy Leemans
made for the Giants against the
Washington Redskins Sunday-his
nose in the dirt, with two men on
him. then up again for another 10
yards, then down again and up
again, then brief pause for a
boxing contest in the coffin corner,
then over for the touchdown.
Texas sources still insist that if
Texas A. and M. fails to get a Rose
Bowl invitation she will patronize
local industry by appearing in the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas-which would
leave the Sugar Bowl available to
Boston College and Tennessee, and
a good game, too.