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Show GREAT TRIO OF FOOTBALL STA$S (By Lombard Law.) Brickley. Thorpe and Flynn. If you are selecting the most brilliant bril-liant performer on the gridiron today, pause here and pick And If you can satisfactorily singlo out one of this sterling trio and discard the other two then you're some picker Judges of tho All-American team this year will be fortunate In not having to break iyj the trio. Thev can perform their ufflco satisfactorily by placing all three in the backfield. Most seasous have an individual star of the Ted Cov tvpe who stands out from the rest like a green vest nt a wadding. In 1911 picking the Winner Win-ner from the pack was a pipe, for there was Sam White. But look who thero is in 1912! Cast your eyo again upon that line-Brickley, line-Brickley, Thorpe and Fbnn I They certainly look good to the lovers lov-ers of football. Oi pny one of them It can be said that he Is one of the greatest phners that over donned the moleskins fo- h's college yes, that lie Is one of the grandest performers in all gridiron h'story Monooollzed the Spotlight. Players that in some Rpasons would be called sensations, who were, In fact, called sensations lait year and the year before, have failed to draw any tiling more than passing notice this fall, interest beliif centered on Bilckley, Thorpe and Flynn. Tliescr three have monopolized the spotlight , to the utter exclusion of manv re-llv. great pla.Vora. The pre-sear.on dope! was principally devoted lo a string o' I all-Aineriean vetoran VemeH. Ha-- vard halfback, Bopielsler. Yale end; ' Devoro. Army tackle Meicei, Penit- yiv.imn muiiacK: iioie, Dartmouth halfback, and Pendleton, Princeton halfback. HJverv ouo of these men Is now pla.viun ; rrmnd f),Y1" - that which won him his all-Amorlcan honors, but thev have don little basking bask-ing fn the limelight since Bricklev. i horpo and Flynn began indulging in their wild sroring proclivities. World's Greatest Athlete. Jim Thome of the Carlisle Indian cho0i is the woild's greatest llv'.ns athlete. He won his title with ca3e at the Olympic games. And il looked ! as if it was going to be easier still I foi him to gain the title of world's I greatest lootball pta.xcr. after ho began be-gan kicking goalu and striding over tacklers early last month. He showed at the start that he had lost nona of those almost uncannv qualities of speed, couiage and strength which I have made him a veritable world-beater world-beater in every line of sport which he has taken up. , It took "Lefty" Flynn to divert at- i tentlon from Thorpe. This happened., when Yale played tho ArmjTCarllslu having an unimportant gamo that dav In the Army gaino Flynn made it clear that the big Indian was going to be 1 up against competition for the season's sea-son's individual laumls, .vorld beater I or no world beater. There were now two sensational I gridiron lunilnarlph. each with that I terrific lunge that piercer, am- line, that shiftiness of foot that bewilders I all tacklers, that nowerful drive that ' lasts until the iast possible inch of ! ground is gathered in and each hav- j ing above all a phenomenal ability , to boot the ball. 1 Piled on Agony for Football Bugs , Football fame, alas, is a thing of evaneBcence. Xo sooner did Thorpe and Flynn la off one Saturdav than Charley Bricklev. another Olvmpic performer, one of the greatest of the Ameiican hoD-step jumpers, suddenly ' burBt ovor the football horizon and no has nevor been out of sight since. It was against Williams that Bricklev really found himself He drop-kicked over tho tandardr. as easllv from one side of the 30-vard line as from the other. Two touchdowns and two field ffoals he registered in this game, increasing in-creasing to four touchdowns and two field goals against Amhorst on the following Saturdav. Three field goals vas his contribution in the Brown gamo. and when he got three more ngainst Princeton It simply piled on the agonv for the vorrlpl hnrc wiin have to tell who is the football heio of 1912. Bricklev kicksx equally well on the dron or from placement. Most of his goals this season hov-p been on droo kicks, but soar of the motdjfficult "nancesthat drive fromihoTyard ' line in Mio Princoton gamefoT'inV stance have been booted from placement. place-ment. Eoots Ball to China. Flynn drives tlm ball an unoarthl distance when he's bootlnc up to top form, and running with the ball he Is one of tlm hardest men in the world 'o down Both are stone walls of do fensive strength. Thorpe Is one of the most daneer-ons daneer-ons men to opponents that over plav-ed plav-ed in a backfield Fast an 1 powerful 'm all klndF of attack nd defense he -"an bo classed with the iost illus- -rious of the immortals s'ho livo in -h'story as gods of t"r gridiron. Look for Thriller. It ! un to some one of this triumphant trium-phant triumvirate to spring nm kind i of a thriller todav nr next Saturdav-j -orr.ntbin'r H,n( ,-jj establish him "as I THE GREATEST. |