Show of Released by Western Newspaper Un on onD DEBATE D concerning the select on of any all time lime football team is isa isa a never ending aITa afTa r It IS extreme extremely extremely ly unlikely that any two followers of the game would choose the same eleven men as their favorItes In the backfield alone It s almost Impossible to pick out any four men from the following group group-Bronko ld Red Grange Jim Thorpe Cliff ClIft Battles Dutch Clark Sammy Baugh Ernie ErDle Nevers and Ace Park Parker Parker er And there are others that de- de deerve deserve serve erve mentIon The list of great linemen IS Just as endless Most fans would pick on any all t me team Thorpe IS an another another other play er that immediately springs to mind Both Bothof of them r- r ri r y i Bronko pros pro ed the r fitness to occupy a niche rn in football shall s hall hallof of fame The r records are well kno There are others who ho are for one reason or another less w duly dely known to today s sports folio follo vcrs vers Ken Strong is one Pudge ger IS another Both have had con considerable city especially the latter but neither gets as much space rn in the record books About Lien Ken Strong B g Steve Ste O 0 en i en of the New York Giants bet bel eves that no all t me team is 15 complete WIthout Ken Strong As a at New NewYork NewYork York ty under Chick Mee Meehan Meehan han Strong was one of the best block ng backs of all t me He we pounds and was as speed speedier ler ier than most pound backs Later on he was swItched to a ball carrier carner and passer According to Owen he was one of the best ball earners carriers I ever er saw college and pro He was one of the best college or pro passers m in the game lIe was one of oC the three best kickers pro Coot football ball ever knew There was no pO position in ID the backfield where bere he wasp wasn t an outstanding star I don t mean good I mean great When NY N Y U defeated a strong Carneg e a Tech team which team uch already had wh h a po erful Notre Dame squad Judge Walter Steffens Tech coach saId saidI I would auld never have believed that one man could wreck reck the team I had on the field today lie Strong trong ran oer o'er them and around them He hit pound Karcis so hard I was afraid he had killed hIm lIe he is the best tall ball carrier carner I 1 ever saw one of the best passers I ever saw saw-as ocd a blocker as I ever saw and certainly the best kicker I ever saw including Jim Thorpe Strong lacked only one the thing color which causes athletes to grab and the keep But he had everything else Pudge is better known to the older generation and wIth good tea rea reason teason son Pudge v I a named An All AmerIca guard on Walter Camp s first team teamon on 1889 The fact that a large smattering of present day grid ron fol followers followers lowers are familIar with hIs record IS eVIdence of hIs greatness s present comeback re recalls recalls calls tales of s ng durability and stamIna At the age of 44 he went back to see how Yale was getting along He came clo close e eto to ru fling the Yale line Ime whIch was one of the best I Nine years ears later when he be WMS w-s 83 3 Fudge Pudge played 58 minutes In a pro game at Columbus Do Bo Mc- Mc McMillin Millin 1 then 22 years old was his As remarkable a thing of Its kind cs the sports world has see l was Fudge Pudge s activity at tile the age of 65 He played through a 15 minute perIOd in another pro game for chan charity and the men who played against rum him de declared dared he was st at U II a good football player So s comeback ian t so miraculous even though he had been out of football for the past SIX years SPORTS SHORTS I 1 Georg a Tech once offered a foot football football ball scholarship to Mart n Mar on rangy shortstop of the St Louis Car Cardinal dinal q I JImmy Thomson golf s long long hit hitter hitter ter has lost 18 pounds since joining the coast gua guard rd Q I Jockey Ted Atkinson rode m in 1 races in 1942 q I Fred Kelly elly w of the h gh hurdle champ p on m the OlympIc games of 1912 has logged 17 flight hours as an army transport pilot I |