Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-11-21 | Page 12 | All-America Originated in 1889 'Big Three' Dominated Selections

All America All America Originated in 1889 Caspar W. W Whitney Started Pastime Big Three Dominated S Selections First America All Fo Football Teams 90 1889 1889 1890 Cumnock Harvard End Hallowell Hallowed Harvard Cowan Princeton Tackle Newell Harvard Cranston Harvard Guard Riggs Princeton George Princeton Center Cranston Harvard Yale Vale Guard Yale Vale Gill Yale Valo Tackle Rhodes Yale YIe Stagg Stag Yale Valc End Warren Princeton E. E A. A Price Princeton Q Q B. B Dean Doan Harvard Lee Harvard Harvard H. H B. B Corbett Harvard Channing Chinning Princeton H. H B. B McClung Yale Valo Amos Ames Prin Princeton eton F. F B. B Homans Princeton 1889 substitutes Janeway substitutes Janeway Princeton Stickney Harvard Donnelly Donnelly Donnelly Don Don- nelly Princeton and Rhodes Rhode Yale Vale in tho the line Dean and Trafford Harvard Black Princeton and McBride Yale VAl behind the line I s w i 1 I By Alan Gould This Is tho the first of oC a n serIes of ot 12 articles by Alan Man Gould Associated Press sports ports editor In which he gives the history of ot America all football teams earns Long Long- Longhair hair thickly padded canvas cnn jackets heavily lly ribbed Flying wEdges edges slugging matches the old BI Big Three dominating tho gridirons These were the outstanding characteristics characteristics char char- of ot American football as asIt asit ast It t was wag played and known two t score years ears a ago 0 Thc They are aro the tho first I t Impressions Impressions Im- Im to strike tho the observers observer's fancy seeking tho the origin of or that conspicuous morsel of at gridiron hal bal l the hoo the America all team It was originated not as lS may be supposed b by tho the late Walter Camp I but jut by Caspar W W. Whitney whose hobb lobby hobby was made mado a L national institution institution I b by the tho more mora enterprising son of ot Yale and father of ot football Whitneys Whitney's first selections selections' were published In Harpers Harper's Weekly after ho tho season of or 1889 It proved pro er very I interesting likewise very simple simpIe for or i Whitney to select the tho eleven cleven best men playing on tho the teams of ot Haryard Har Har- yard vard Yale and Princeton NO QUESTION No Xo one ono questioned that the Big DI Three produced bigger and better football players than any other In Institutions Institutions institutions In- In of or higher learning The label abel America all was accepted much as the tho populace accords tho designation of ot tho the annual American n baseball classic as the tho worlds wot Ids Id's When Whitneys Whitney's honor roll of 1889 Is called with Cowan StagS StagS' Poc Poe Ames and other stalwarts stat stal warts on tho the list modern thinks of or shaggy haired giants NOT LARGER MEN Yet physically tho the average n then was no bJ bigger ser than it ft Is now As Asfar Asfar far ar back as a Yale rush lino line averaging a pounds J per Cr mart man was wa considered astoundingly big big- The Tho midwest and ancI far Car west have o produced lines hInes averaging close to pounds per pel man In recent years ears Princeton was champion In 1889 and rind five of ot Its Hs eleven claimed all all- America ranking with three places each going golrig to Harvard and Yale The following year Harvard topped the list with five Princeton divided the tho other six places with Old Ell Eli The task was comparatively simple In contrast to tho the present- present day job of ot sifting sorting and ancI tabulating tabu lating the Associated Press returns return Ion on hundreds of or players scattered from coast const to coast from border to gulf suIt POE STAGG NAMED Rich memories cling to those first America all-America heroes Edgar Allan Poe Princeton's quarterback was tho the second of at four Maryland brothers broth broth- ers who made mado gridiron history for tor Old Nassau Amos mos Alonzo Stagg St. Yale end Is one ono of at tho surviving sur grand grond old men inen of ot tho the game coachIng coach- coach lag InS Chicago Pudge three time America nIl guard suard at Yale went west to help develop de tho the game ganio at California before be foro pursuing a brilliant brilliant bril bril- local legal career In n Minnesota