Show ey I 1 HE room was lull full of smoke as usual this happened to be a gathering of football old timers that could take you back 40 or 50 years and bring you up to the present hour the argument or the debate start ed as to who should be listed as the real greats of foot ball since 1889 when walter camp and casper whit ney had only har vard yale and princeton to call on in the course of a long evening where hundreds of names were men tinned I 1 can give you the selected survivors born n m 1 A stage bated through the years in the college game centers germany michi michl gan robert peck pittsburgh stein of 0 pitt mel hein reached bis his great ness bess as a pro guards pudge tale yale outstanding laff tackles fat henry VV and J outstanding slater iowa ends stags stagg blinkey shevlin kil patrick yale michigan hewitt michigan hutson alabama backs gipp notre dame damet grange illinois thorpe carlisle minnesota eckersall chicago heston michigan davis army we could add coy yale mahan harvard nevers stanford baugh T C U luckman columbia but the latter two reached top star dom with the pros it was a smoke filled evening rife with the innumerable blend of many voices here was one of the final agreements reached concerning the top stars of many universities the stars who belonged notre dame george gipp illinois red grange minnesota bronko yale pudge michigan germany schultz wil lie heston stanford ernie nevers carlisle jim thorpe N Y U ken strong harvard eddie mahan army glenn davis W and J fat I 1 henry chicago walter eckersall these are the ones that got most of the votes all time all america some years ago john sims ship wreck kelly of kentucky wrote to 52 coaches asking each to name the greatest player he had ever seen or coached only one man got two votes his name was jim thorpe in this conclave it was generally agreed that bronko was the top all around star tackle end or back and pudge the most amazing football player who at the age of 53 was still the best guard in the country ask bo me mc mallm in naming an all time college all america team there are only a few men who stand out one Is germany of michigan 6 feet 4 weight pounds faster than most of his backs at center another is pudge ilef delfinger fel finger of yale a star guard in 1889 and even better guard in 1921 or 1922 more than 30 years later fat henry of W and J is rated by lou little and other veterans as the greatest tackle the college game has ever known the ends are a problem tar far be yond our limited range hinkey and shevlin of yale were two of the greatest defensive ends football has ever known hutson and of alabama and michigan were two of the best offensive ends don hut son was undoubtedly the most able end that ever walked on a foot ball field you must start with hutson ill let you pick the other end when it comes to the backs we 11 give you three quick names bronko jim thorpe and red grange for the fourth college spot we can give you walter ecker sail sall glenn davis ernie nevers dutch clarke george gipp and ken strong notre dame supporters are per cent back of george gipp the far west rolls with ernie nevers of stanford we 11 string along with ken strong one of the b best est block ers of all time a great ball car ner rier the best kicker we have ever see seen and one of the best also glenn davis the tle super backfield if we bad had to pick an a all 11 time col lege backfield it would be grange at quarter th thorpe orpe and strong at the halves at fullback davist davis yes wed we d wan want t davis our ends under the modern modem game would be hutson and hewitt out side of there has been no outstanding college guard and outside of henry there has been no outstanding college tackle the two best passers have been baugh and luckman exceptionally good in college but far better game in the pro ga game me in the college game friedman and governali were just as good speaking of guards reminds me |