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Show OLD GRIDIRON STARS WOULD SHINE TODAY Open Game Made to Order fop Such Men as Sharpe. Old-Timer Resents Intimation That Backs of His Day Would Find Present-Day Game More Difficult Diffi-cult in Carrying Ball. It must be with varying emotions that the old-timer in football hears it intimated that the halfbacks of his day would find in the present-day increased in-creased and more difficult duties in Dr. Al Sharpe. hall carrying, says an Eastern writer. It may be that later-day football has Increased the scope and burden of the backs, but such splendid players of the past as Benn Dibblee, Vincent Stevenson, Malcolm McBride, Frank Butterworlh, Bum McClung, Everett Lake, Jim McCormick, Ted Coy, Brink Thorne, Snake Ames, Johnny Baird. Bill Heston, Osgood, Walter Eckersall, Pan Hurley, Harold Weekes, Cayou of Carlisle and others could not readily adapt themselves to the requirements of the present and become just as bright stars as they were in the old game will strike as absurd and preposterous pre-posterous everybody who followed football in those days. Al Sharpe and Paul Veeder $ Yale Charles Daly, Douglas of the navy; Eckersall, Balrd, Thorne, McCormick why, they could all run and kick and the present game was made to order for them. |