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Show White Unanimous Choice For All-America Honors ByTTTARTTAMTRON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Dec. 1 California and Fordham, two of the strongest strong-est teams in the nation, dominated the annual all-American football team named today by the United States. tested. Greatest day was against Manhattan, when scored 19 points. Second Stringer Rises Sweeney, end: Emerged from second sec-ond stringer in first game to all-America. all-America. An opportunist who made own breaks by hard charging and brilliant speed. Was winning factor in Navy, Northwestern and Minnesota Minne-sota games by blocking kicks or picking up blocked kicks for scores. Kinard. tackle: One of the speediest speed-iest tackles in the country. Runs the 100 in 10.4 seconds, which accounted ac-counted for his tremendous charging. charg-ing. Handled kickoffs and points after touchdowns. Was the "iron man" of the Southeastern conference. confer-ence. Franco, tackle: Known as the Devil Doll." Good blocker on offense of-fense and a demon on defense. North Carolina put four blockers on him and couldn't stop him. Stockton, guard: One of the fast-et fast-et line chargers on the coast. Was constantly in opposition backfirld. Excelled as a blocker on a team where blocking was brought to a superlative degree. Routt, guard: Outstanding aggressive aggres-sive player. Fine blocker and great on defense. All opposition- assigned three or four men to block him out, but Mill had difficulty stopping him. A 60-minute player. Wojciechowics, center: Never played a bad game in his football career. The bulwark of one of the strongest lines in football. His ability abil-ity to open holes in the opposition line accounted for more victories than the entire Fordham backfield Always one of the first men down the field on covering kicks. In Purdue Pur-due game he recovered the ball on the opposition five-yard line vwien it hit a Purdue player's leg. Two players from each of those schools were on the mythical eleven selected by United Press sports writers, aided by 12 of the nation's foremost coaches. Byron White, known as the "Whiiier" from roast to coast, vcaa the only unanimous choice of the writers and for that reason was made captain of the mythical mythi-cal eleven. Kxperta in every aee-tion aee-tion east votes for the great Colorado bark who waa the nation's na-tion's leading aeorer. Henry McLemore, the only eastern east-ern writer in the country who saw White play, aaid, "White ia the beat football player I saw all season." sea-son." Harold Nikkei, who while a player at Yale opposed and teamed with such barks as Buckler, Stancork, Levan and Booth, said: "I rate White above all of them. Dutch Clark is the only back I ever saw who matches White in almost perfect per-fect balance of ability in every department." de-partment." Most bitterly contested position was center. Voting was so close that the issue was decided by opinions of the coaches. Their votes pushed Wojciechowics, member of the United Unit-ed Press third team in 1936. to the varsity post and dropped Bob Herwig Her-wig of California from the first spot of a year ago into the third team. No Alabama Stars A striking development was the failure of any Alabama player to win a starting position. LeRoy Mon-sky, Mon-sky, captain of the undefeated and untied Albama Crimson Tide, is on the second team. For the first tune in years, no Big Ten conference player was selected. se-lected. The following summary gives the first team's claims to fame: White, nuarterback: Oreatent back in his school's history. Scored 16 touchdowns In eight games, made 23 conversions and kicked one field goal for a total of 122 points. Averaged over eight yards every time he carried the ball and has punting average of better than 45 yards. An aatute field general and aignal caller. Frank, left halfback: Hard blocker, block-er, deadly passer. Yale men describe de-scribe him as another Ted Coy the greatest praise an Eli could give to one of his men. His leadership declared one of Yale's greatest. Chapman, right halfback: Key man in the great California back-field. back-field. Great punter especially when the pressure was on him. A proficient profi-cient blocker and strong runner on weak side plays. Goldberg, fullback: Great runner of ends and the middle of the line. Developed into a good passer and 'quirk kicker this season. An escel-tlcnt escel-tlcnt open field runner. Wysocki, end: Great defensive end. Carries ball well. Great kicker. ! Personally responsible for several victories that kept Villanova unde- |