Show Linemen Outnumber Others on Roster of 1917 Grid CrAd Captains Ends Most Popular Choices Tackles and Guards Conic Come Next Few Backfield Men Named Centers Absent Entirely From the List YORK Dec 30 The iio T-he T like business methods which NEW NE have been adopted in fn the handling handling- of or the big college football teams are arc shown by hy the rapid manner In which the managers ard and others connected with the elevens are arc pro- pro paring for tor the season of In 1017 7 still nine months away Hardly had the tho sound und of the thc referees referee's whistle Istle died away in the final game of or tho tito year ear before the election o of captains and the announcements of ot the playing schedules for fall Call were made public tho the next In this connection It is interesting leaders elected for tor next season the preference to note that of oC close to tiit fifty football players at ratio runs to mer over backfield a of ot about two to one In the It will be seen that thirty have been accompanying list of ot 1017 iiii captains cap cap- from Cram among backfield men Ends appear to selected bo lie the from N m the lino line and sixteen eap a close second and guards g third while there is popular choice with tackles I. s leader utter Among the backfield field players the Ule halfbacks yet to be a center cortor named ns I rs PhI and fullbacks rd h about evenly e 11 divided have first call with quarters v anu captaIns their positions on orT the 1516 Teams teams T i is as follows s 7 vu to U date date with Football leum Captain for 1017 Team Team- Name Army J Position Ul Jones Navy r- r ra acIle a Fisher F Ish cr New Nc York University Cann End ehigh h Halfback University of or Chicago Halfback Pershing Northwestern Quarterback u University of ot Rochester Halfback Ogden B Rutgers I Kendall endall End Stevens Tackle Marshall Tackle yell an Agricultural ral End BOO College Vandervoort Clifford Guard C Colb omy olby Perry Guard II Rensselaer Poly Robertson End Ed E Dartmouth th l P Pennsylvania Pen n s y 1 van I a Miller I III t I End Ind nd cr S Syracuse J End n fount Mount St. St Marys Mary's College Collese Drury End Pittsburgh I Halfback Carlson Carson Boston loston r College Fitzgerald End 1 Tufts tilts 1 Quarterback Doane Michigan Smith l Fullback YaJo aio Gates Fullback I Indiana Tackle Hathaway I University of or Virginia Ward ard Fullback Notre N t reD Dame a e v I Phelan he I an Tackle le I Harvard lal Wheeler heeler Qua Quarterback r t e r hac k Amherst I lo I Washington ton and Jefferson End L I P Princeton r In c e ton T. T Wilson Vilson Halfback Colgate 4 West t 0 n r r. r f End n I Brown u Farnum I Lafayette 1 Guard r Halfback A. A Lebanon I L banon Morrison Guard I Holy Cross CraSH Lynch End inu abash Guard e er 4 l Columbia Tackle ackle le Cochran Cochlan Cornell Halfback 1 Gro e. e r Qu Quarterback Tai Tai-kio Illinois College o k I l Un University VCrs l Kraft r Guard Muskingum Gibson v End a Penn I End State gins West Vest lr End Virginia lnla Tennessee Lc VC Leivo Halfback wc Guard Hamilton Schwartz Fullback Georgetown Wall Wail rall JL Fullback l L J IV |