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Show Wenfee Picks A 11- Western Team Among 1915 Stars Jioes Outside of Big Nine for Foui of His First-String First-String Men, Nebraska Gets Two on List l By FRANK G MEN KB I Internat onal News Service E "i ORK Nov 30 The west VI ne er produced a more wonderfu J assortment of gridiron stars than 1 th s season brought to the fore and those who ha e attempted all estern select ons have found themselves nfronted with a diff cu t task because r them It was not a case of weeding out e poor players and naming those "who ere left, but it was the job of mak ng st two or three selections from each dt sion from among a dozen wonders Herewith la presented our al western ections f rst second and hlrd teams do ng so it Is w th the explanation at we ha e seen none of the western ftrs in action The select ons were made a resu t of season ong peru a of spappr accounts of each p ayer in each the games coup ed w th op nlons that e come to us throughout the season rba or In letters from coaches or otball experts who ave seen the b g pstera e evens in action and whose op n ns are unb ased and we ghty FT he select ons fo ow F ALL-WESTERN SELECTIONS FIRST TEAM. P ayer Pos Age Ht Wt Bamberain (Neb ) T 22 6 1 190 Bck (V s ) . 1 22 6 0 185 bnnlgan (Minn G 1 5 11 193 latson (1 1 C '2 8 0 181 jtzgerald (Notre Dame) Or 3 6 0 ISo Su I (Ch cago) T '2 6 0 193 u er (1 ) E n o 9 163 Liseell (Ch cago) Q 3 6 8 lo3 btherford (Neb ) HB 22 5 11 1 8 e Prato (M ch Agr ) HB 9 5 11 17a ; lerman (I nn ) FB 21 5 10 174 j SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM Player Pos tion Payer i kston (M n e Stavrum Cia), lack ock t Carey (Neb ) ; (Mich Agg es ) ocker (Purd e) g Stewart (II ) j and son (Minn ) c Frimdlg ; (M ch Agg es rodle (Chicago) g Barron (Iowa 1 high on t Rundqulst (I 1 V 0 S U) fcard e Qufst (M nn (Notre Dam) ! ark (I ) qb Zxng (M nn ifall hb Inters fNot e Dame (O S Tj ) vers (W s ) hb Macomber (n al strom (II fb Mau sbetsch (M ch ) Our selections as you will no e go yond the B g ine and embrace thosp ur big co eges that are outs do t p Id Nebraska Notre Dam M ch gan id M ch gan Agrtcu ura And in three those four o eges -we ha e found men ho In the op n on of some coaches and Tispaper exper s are superior to any of e Big N ne men playing -aim! ar posi 3ns CHAMBERLAIN A WONDER Chamber a n of Nebraska and Squier of inois won the f ank, posit ons on the rst team because of t elr co sistently llliant work throughout the season hamberlain probably la the most wonder 1 end the wes I as ever known and idoubted y one of the greatest n e story of he game Tn the c ght Bame wh ch h par i pa ed he scored si en touchdowns an a erage of wo per ime for a total of n net six po nts record tha no o hor v. ng man can ejual even dls antl approach He s ands er 6 fee n e g t we ghs 90 pounds a 10 2 man on the track and can t a line w th the power ox a battering m But most of his touchdowns ta e en scored la e forwar pass ro e Buck of "Wis onsln and S of Ch cago e superb tackles B k s as fet ss a er a Hton wall on Iff s and a fine cker fhu 1 s one of th( b h hooters in e game and he has t e un anny powpr be ng on the ba a 1 e me He rel fa ed o open aloe when a ed ?on an he was a wonder n break ng ptas Dunn I gan of M nesota and FJ rgera d Not e fame apta n ank an he bet farris tha the vest p od pd th year Ime and aga n pa s were d cted at em and 1 f a of en thoso plays w re opp d F 7 a d desp te hl s unds of bu k fre uent j was the f an down t f d after hs team jnted and a pub a hslf dozen tlm g ) th ew h p n g abbe for a Iofr an almost In once! able stunt for a guard to accomp h Wa son of I no s and Hand so of M n nesota lad a batt e royal a I eason for the f st team center job and Watson in the op n on of the major ty wo$ by a s Ight margin CHICAGO S PIVOT MAN Pete llus e the quarterback ng won der of tw Chicago Maroons is g ven th job on the f rst team because of his all around ab 1 tj Pusse 1 is brain hes a f f ty sard punter a mar el at the drop kicking game as elus ve as an eel when running back punts and an a most irre slstlble power when he decides to hur himself at the ne The se ect on of the f rst team half backs was the most diff cu t job of al The bri htest stars in the west shone back of the I ne and w th near y a dozen men c a m ng and be ng worthy of the first team recogn tlon it was only after a lot of reperusal of letters and c ppings that Ruthe ford of Nebraska De Prato of tbe M ch gan Agg es and Bierman of Minne so a were se ected De Prato was the w dfre ha fback of the west He scored c ose to 10 po nts in the aW games In which he par c pated He scored a the points twenty four wh ch his team ro ed up against Yost s M chJgan ou f t IJs punts a er aged c ose to f ftj fve yards and he rare y fa ed wften cal ed upon for a f eld goal As a 1 ne smasher he had no super or B erman the M nnesota captain scored s xty points In the games against the three mopt powerfu riva s of M nnesota He is a plunger after the Ileston type and when he was given the bal and to d to go through the 1 ne he did and very often for huge gains Nebraska won al Us eight games this season and Chamberlain and Putherford are the ma n reasons Rutherford is sa d to be as speed as Edd e Mahan of Har ard just as tricky a s re ground gainer through the lne and a great defensive plaver The fl t team of our sele Ion seems to s ze up as a wonde f outf bu n sk and in power the th rty three men named above are so nearlv evenlv ma chd that it wo d be only abou an even bet on the f rst team s ohan ei f It ad ed the second or third e e ens 1 |