Show II I F THE I SPORT I I ff w fp vrr I fl By D RICEL I I lUI NM New Nw York Tork Tribune Inc Ioe Trademark I Registered U P f O fie Ot-fie I ITHE I ITHE j THE GREATEST BACKI BACK BACKI Professor ProCessor r 1 H Yost or of o Michigan I takes lales more than mild exception to the belief belleC that thai Grange Mahan Thorpe ThorDe Coy or anyone any one else ele was wasas lie good a running b back bick ck as Willie Heston Grange Is Js no Heston says Yost Neither is an any one else rew modern commentators know ho Ilot good Heston was as Why Shy was ho he the tire greatest I II 11 tell you why 1 I He lie was the fastest starting thit c ever eter er Ih lived ed This goes for or Bowman or Craig 9 4 5 runners Heston could bet bert Hahn ev- ev every ev every ery cry time at fifty Cly yards ards ards and Hahn 5 as good for tor 9 4 5 then orld worlds s 2 Heston p was as the quickest I back for or a shift or a thrust or a sidestep I eH ever saw Heas Ho lie was as like I 1 I lightning 3 Heston HOlton was the most PO potter er erful fill ful runner of or them all Weighing pounds heI he I was ras as bUIlt bull l J and struck with such terrific force torce that few lew could stand up UV before hIm I 4 i Imagine pounds thrown Into action with ith greater grealer starting starling I I speed than tEan Paddock Murchison or II Scholz 5 He was never hurt 6 He was as equally great at rip ripping ping open oven a line or shooting till ugh a II broken field 7 He Ho made touchdowns In four vears ears This would be bo equal to points today He averaged over twenty live dye cs DS a season 1 against such teams leanis as ChIcago Wisconsin Minnesota Stanford II III Ohio State and the tho strong strong- est strongest opponents wo to e could meet lie He gained over yards lards aros from rom strong scrim im scrimmage scrimmage mage in an number of or single con contests contests tests S 8 lIe He was one ot or the greatest 0 backs one of at tho hard bard est eat surest tacklers that e ever eter er In ed CONTINUING THE CASE It was as e even een en harder to gala gain i ground then titan than it is now b bv the runnIng game continued lost J I You had bach ten men up to pile the via pla The defense was not scat scattered by any pass threat threat- It It f was as compact and a fet at t IlC ton made mado lOG tow tow-h ton tou h do downs dons ns in four vears ears W hat T hat other backfield star e ever etor er made se enty 11 fite e in the tho same time I am ann cant confident dent that Heston teston has hiis gained two a yards lards to one above an any other back eld star blar that ever pia played ed ions Jons are one thing but records are another When vou OU get a man who was as wasa a II bettor better open field runner ruener than tha Grange or Mahan and a II harder line breaker than Coy vou ou ha have hate e quite a combination to beat And that Is 1 what hat lle Heaton lon lonas was as Yost makes no attempt to rate late e MIlie as a kicker or passer vaser since there was as no passing and Heston did not kick But Dut as a It ground gaining backfield star Yost is will Ill ing log to uphold Heston's case against a alna an ani anton ten ton debaters that might be b named catch w weights tights standing c or running start CALIFORNIA'S RECORD As records come and go that fi e year bear car mark of or California's football team earn takes on an added glow Fh e ears against the best teams team of or the far lar west and against such mid a estern and eastern arra ta s as Ohio State Slate Wand W and J and Penn silvania form form a football epoch In Inthis this thi modern game that will not be equalled for tor many decades beI It is haid hald enough now to slip sill sll I through a season unbeaten Only Notre Dame California Yale and Dartmouth Managed to 10 retain tb their i scalps this last season To through Ih five fie e seasons against strong stron opposition without being bIng nicked Js Is flirting with Ith a miracle The answer Is fairly e eIdent Ident California has 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