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Show FOOTBALL MEN OF OTHER DAYS All-Americaa Team of '89 U Corker, Was as Heavy One, Perhaps, as Could Be Put Out. Team of 1903 Was n Powerful One, and Stood Out Conspicuously. Recent agitation for changes in tho playing rules of football has laid stress on, among other things, the great demand for weight on present-day elevens alleging alleg-ing that skill anil agility suffer at tho ox- pens., of Weight. Glittering generalities are not conclusive conclu-sive Arguments. There ;, great deal of weight on and sought for h present-day present-day teams, but the some holds equally true of football teams from ten to nftestl years ago. before It was the fashion to cry for a change of rjules annually t If there was any more open play llftoen years ago than now II was not because there were nun of less avoirdupois playing play-ing the amc. If men are less skillful and alert now than then, which is doubtful It g not the fault of tho rult-s or the mine of tho men. Tho giants of a decade ago were Just as prollelent in thep- Individual positions as any of their lighter contemporaries, and th. same is tine today, says an Eastern oraele. The AJI-Amoriran team of lln was. perhaps, as heavy a loam as could lie put on th. freld Shevlln, Yale, ami Bowdlu li Harvard ends; Hogan Yale and Klnnej Yale tackles; Dewltt, Princeton and Glast Yale, guards, Holt, Yale, center: jMokwvii Yale, quarterback; Chadwlck Yale, and Bunker, w.-r Point, halfbacks; Oraydon, Hat vard, fullback It would be pretty close between the i" In weight, and If rn.iv 1.. doubts. I whether tho team of l'i would have any advantage over the team of iryj in speed and activity For skill spool and individual indi-vidual fool hall Intelligence the 1898 All-American All-American eleven stands out conspicuously conspicuous-ly it was mndo up ,,( Hlnkey, Yale, and Tri in hard. Frlnoton. ends, l-.i Princeton, Prince-ton, and Newell, Harvard. tack let wheeler, Princeton, and niekok Yale a , ' ' '"nirr: King. rrincoton, quarterhaek , Hrowor. Harvard and More Princeton, halfbacks: Butter-Worth, Butter-Worth, Yale, fullback. Was Wide-Awake Eleven. A faster RId more wide-awaKS eleven It would h" hard to flnd Wo are told that modern football h.i degenerated Into a mere contest of beef and push and pull The 1S93 team Is one of the lightest of these fanciful football aggregations- hut take ti,, ,, (..,,, .,,,, Ih. ,lWorful ,- team give them the same amount ..f loam and other practice under the prosmt rules and does anybody think men weight would win for the kitt.r" It WOUld take a good deal of nklll and Speed fOI any team to hent a team of the caliber of ih ma combination, no matter how much the weight of tho former, and tith the rules Just as thev are toda-. There were giants In those davs. On All-Amorlcan teams from lt-n? on are found the names ,,f sin h big men as Dou- ette. Uordon Brown. Hare Mc Yaeken Blopmer. Cutts. Warner, Holt, Bunker Sheviin Hogan, He Yitt Bdwarda uiass Kinney, Hooper, A. Marshall. Heaton' Roarhaek and Plekarskl; hut m teams previous to thai time woe audi BtraDDlna men a i Cowan, Hi ff Ifinger, Wheeler, Mcl rea, Hlckok P. Btlllman Wharton. Woodruff, porbln, Aotr.i m ,, k.-y. Lea. Galley, ChUrch ami San ford Old Rules Best. "The int)L' football rules." said an export ex-port the other day. wore the bot we cvei had Thej admitted ,,f .t wide, range "t play than any of the otherp 'iho chief differences between the 1902 rules and th.- 1004 rules were these-The these-The !ij code admitted of one -,r . attacking side being in motion toward I his own goal without coming to a stop he-fore he-fore the hall was put to play. The 190! code also renulreU only lite men to be on the In,. .,1 s. rimma. stead 01 six as now under certain restrictions re-strictions for the grouping of the iv m.-n behind the line This,- g ,,IK, ,., . mitted of a wide varetj ,,r attack 1 h rough the opposing line. |