I (FOOTBALL TANS I J FORGET HEROES IJI'A s each succeeding football Reason 9 "- becomes a matter of history the 4j !j names of those old gladiators who did so much to bring the great college sport to the front rank In amateur ath- Jetlcs becomo less familiar to the prcs- ent generation of players and spectators. specta-tors. The manner In which these old -' stars, men who were looked upon as .. the greatest In their respective posl-f posl-f tlons In their time, are forgotten Is a phase of sportsmanship In which i American and English Ideas differ f preatly. In England a man who has won a j reputation In any branch of sport always al-ways Is remembered and his name Is Its familiar totho present generation as It was to those who saw some of i England's sterling athletes perform In ' their chosen lines. YIn this country the ' names of Amos Ruslo. Adrian (Cap.) Anson and others so well known to baseball when baseball was getting Its hold on tho public are known to but comparatively few persons who take an Interest In present day baseball. In the old days of football. About fifteen fif-teen years ago, It took a husky man to playi the game. Forty-five minuto halves were played, and players in the 1 lino could tussle with one another to ' their Jiearta content before the ball was put In play This pulling and hauling In the line was one of tho most tiresome features of the. struggle, both for the players and spectators. Most , plays, such as the deadly flying wedge, i tho bruising turtleback formations and III' many other crippling features were al-BJ al-BJ 1 lowed. So, taking the game as a whole, fj ;i football was hard work In those days jp and players had to be In tho best of jgj condition to last through an cntlro M contest. R ., Coaches of these elevens sought big .B i and powerful men. Take the giant Hoffolflnger, the Yale guard. Ho could I spread out those great arms of his and With Laurie Bliss or hie brother "Pop" Bliss, carrylns the oval, plow his way .! through any line. I' DoWltt, also a champion hammer 7, thrower, was a great ground gainer In -r football, and coaches and critics who J ought to know have stated as their i opinion that had Heffelflngcr and De-y De-y Witt played at the same period it k would have been an even thing bo-3 bo-3 i twen them. But one can Judge only I by actual comparison, and as the two j played at different times It always will i! remain a question as to which was su- pcrlor. i DcWItt was of different build and II if constructed more along the lines of 5 I Hlckok. the famous Yale guard of the fl, j early nineties. Tho famous Princeton W lineman was Invaluable to his team. 9 Besides possessing ability to advance R I the ball from tackle back formations ra ' or from tackle around plays, he vas an wM,' accomplished drop kicker, and many 1 times he turned seeming defeats into victories by well directed field goals. A great football player who was honored hon-ored by former President Roosevelt Bfl't was Bowdltch, who played end on the I I Harvard team of 1902. This man was i ald to have been the fastest end who Tw I ever played football In the east in get-H get-H , ting down the field under punts, and l experienced players have asserted he V even was faster than Frank Hlnkey. I i the famous Yale end. If he was. there tA his superiority, If there was any. stop-1VJ. stop-1VJ. A petL Hlnkey was a terrible man to S'f play against, and it was not unusual j for him to put three to five players out of every game. i Another grueling player of tho Hln- 0 key type was "Sport Donnelly, once .1 an end on the Princeton team. lie was 5 1 rated as being the best man In the col-2 col-2 leges in his day when it came to us-Jf us-Jf ( Ing his fists Had Donnelly and Hln-v Hln-v J key played at the same time It Is a question which would have left tho V game flist- Both were game to the apfr coro and had the fighting spirit. 41! A great Princeton player was Edgar dtfl Poe. a relative of the poet and one of ji the lightest men In the history of big Sf ' college football. "Peter" Poe. as he was J i called was a quarterback. Ho got his n ' chance during tho second half of a S - game between Princeton and Harvard rV ' when "Snake" Ames, another famous I Tiger plavor. was Injured With the score 15 to 10 against Princeton this Ifr - little player took charge of the Tigers 2 ' and ran the count up to U for his team S against IB for Harvard. Poo was 5 j known in after years as the greatest 1 of football generals until Phil King en-jg en-jg $ tercd the arena. Arthur Poe. a brother i member of the Princeton elevens of 8 if 1898 and 1S99. was another great p la-k la-k f er whose name Is placed high in the ? I Tiger hall of fame. A A great football man at the dodging J tamo was McClung of Tale, while J Chad wick, also a member of the Blue V. i eleven was considered one of tho best JE i off tackle driving backs ever seen in jg tho east- Of more recent years aro N Heston and Benbrook of MIcMgan. g $ Cochcms. Larsen and Curtis of V, ls- fS 1 consln. Hcrschbergcr. Clarke Kennedy $ I and Steffen of Chicago, Johnson of J i Northwestern. Williams of Iowa. Mc- 4 Govern. Johnson, Marshall. Rogers. S i Walker and Capron of Minnesota. H ' But to mention the names and deeds 9 of famous football players would bo M an endless task. Tho players named m j are some of those whose names should K ' be kept fresh In the minds of the prcs- f ent generation of football enthusiasts.