The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-13
CHICAGO BEARS VOTED PLACES
 ON 'ALL' TEAM
Dudley Rookie of the Year" Makes First AII=
 League Team

Chicago, Jan. 13-(Special)-The National Football league today an- nounced its 1942 All-League team, the 18th such selection officially recognized since 1881. Like nine of it's predecessors, the team is dom- mated by western division players.
 Five places went to Chicago's once invlncible Bears, while Green Bay, for the second successive year, is represented by its peerless passing combination of Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson. Tackle Wee Willie Wilkin, also first string selection in 1941, and End Bob MaSterson, a new conner to the All-League team, were the only members of the champion Washington Redskins voted first string berths. Guard Bill Edwards of New York, and Half Back Bill Dudley of Pittsburgh, the rookie of the year, complete the eleven.
 All For HutsOn
 Fifty-six players received votes in the ballot in which a committee of newspapermen participated before the championship playoff. Only one, Hutson, Green Bays veteran end and chronic record breaker, was a unanimous choice. He was first team choice on each of the nine ballots. It was the fifth consecutive year Hutson has been named on the first string and the sixth time in eight seasons that he has stopped the vote among ends.
 The Bear contingent included three men-Guard Danny Fortmann, Center Slyde Turner and Quarter Back Sid Luckman-who were first team selections in 1941. It was the fifth successive time for Fortmann. And for the second consecutive year, the young surgery interne missed a unanimous choice by one first place vote.
 Other Bears selected were Tackle Lee Artoe and Full Back Gary Famiglietti. Both are newcomers in All.League circles. It marked the first time since 1884. when New York won the championship and placed five men on the All-League team, that one club has supplied SO many first team selections.
 Famiglietti, 230 pounds of crushing line plunger, who took over the Bears full-backing when Bill Os- manski was injured on the sixth play of the opening game, polled four first place votes to beat out Andy Farkas of the champion ReG- skins, by a margin of two points.
 Almost UnamiOus
 Dudley, the leagues ground gain- ing champion, is the first rookie to be chosen since Davey O,Brien was named quarter back in 1889. Like Fortman, he missed being un- animouS choice by one vote, although he also appeared on all nine ballots.
 Luckman's only opposition for quarter back came from Sammy Baugh, the Redskins field general and passing paragon. Baugh missed first team selection when the com- mittee split its ballot, some of the selectors placing him at half back. Luckman received six first place votes.
 The committee evinced definite preference for Isbell over Baugh at half back, principally because he is & better ball carrier, and because of his greater pass productivity. He has delivered at least one touchdown pass in his last twenty-three con- secutive league games.
 Injuries and lack of reserves which kept him in the game many times when he should have been resting mitigated against Frank (BruSier) Kinard of Brooklyn, who had been first team tackle choice the two preceding years. As result Kinard wound up on the second team with Chet Adams of Cleve- land.
 Failure of Washington guard to make either the first or second team came as something of a surprise after the superb performances of Steve Slivinski, Disk Farman and Clyde Shugart in the championship game. Outside of Fortmann, how ever, the race for guard positions was wide open with seven men re- ceiving first team votes.
 Mel Got Two
 There seemed to be little question about whom the committee con- sidered the leagues best centers. Chuck Cherundolo, who played twentye-f1ve consecutive quarters for Pittsburgh, and Turner received all the votes, except two for the second team, which went to Mel Hein, re- tiring star of the New York Giants.
 At end, Masterson took a com- manding lead over George Wilson of the Bears, and Perry Schwartz of Brooklyn, a first string choice in 1940 and 1941, largely because of a better rounded performance, which combined Wilson's rugged play with SchwartZ's pass receiving.
 The committee making the selec- ton was composed of Joe King, New York World Telegram; Harold Par. rott, Brooklyn Eagle: Merrill Whit tlesey, Washington Post; Jack Sell, Pittsburgh Post Gazette; Ross Kauf- mann, Philadelphia Bulletin: John Sabo, Detroit Free Press; Ray Pa gel, Green Bay Press Gazette; Isi NS T |