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Show I East No Longer Has Corner On All-Star Football Material I BY Dl an SNXDtER. Modern football has come Into full I blossom during the season of 1'j2U, jnow drawn to a close It has been the biggest year the game has ever known. Record crowds have filled the stadiums throughout the country. Increased enthusiasm I has been shown everywhere and many j great players have come to light by 'their spectacular and thrilling performances per-formances on the gridiron Picking an AU-Amerlcan eleven a mythical eleven that has never played ; together and perhaps never will is at best but a hazardous attempt to in- elude men representative ot what an ideal eleven should be composed of. All over America sporting writers are engaged In thl Fantastic and more 'or less i utile pastime. The practice of proclaiming that any one or two players are best In their respectlvo DO ilions is nearly as time-honored, j however, as the gridiron game Itself. And It seldom leads to anything more definite than promoting endless prgu- Imeni by football enthusiasts all1 over the country as to the superior merit of their favorites over those selected by the nervy pickers of A.ll-Amerlcan teams. In a season replcto with surprises end tntersei. tional i!a:;!i-s the football-loving football-loving public has had Its conception of tho great American collegiate sport broadened as never before Ail-American teams used to be picked for the most part from amonp: members of the Yale, Harvard and Princeton elevens. Gradually and tardily tard-ily smaller colleges In the east produced pro-duced football players who by sheer j power and individual brilliancy challenged chal-lenged recognition on this purely theoretical theo-retical eleven. War brought together almost all the star football players of high school and college and it was not unusual for high school stars to play alongside college heroes without discredit to tho former Service teams abounded and did much to promote morale for pla -ers and soldier spectators alike Thu-It Thu-It was possible for followers of the game to see by actual demonstration that a tackle like Tolbert of Oklahoma, was as good or better than the best I In the army from any of the big three j teams of the east In fact, it was the super-ability of Tolbert on the cham- plon service team In Franc; that led 1 to his abandonment of Oklahoma for) Harv ard, where ho has become an outstanding out-standing player on one "of tho most j powerful teams ever developed at that Institution vvnii tins aiscovery, maue auurciy i through army football during the war, I that the cream of football material of I ;the land was not confined to the big! three, came a liberalisation in the piek-1 piek-1 Ing of mythical All-Arm irlcan teams. It Is with a firm belief that the east I has no corner on the beat material and I that the middle and far west and thei south have every cause to bo proud, I of their individual gridiron heroes, WO I i present an All-American team that woj fpel is thoroughly represestatlve of the i I country as a whole and Is composed of! players who, as Individuals, possess the ability to play together and do all that an Ideal lootball team Is supposed to do. I.L-AMKKICAN 1020 rirst Team I.Muller. California, r.e 183 i Keck, Princeton, r.t 205 1 Tolbert, Harvard, r. g 208 I'Depler, Illinois, c -o . Griffiths. Fenn State. 1. g 190 1 Sonnenberg. Dartmouth, l.t 190 I Carney. Illinois, l.e 190 LMcMlllln, Centre, q.b ICS1 , White, Oklahoma, r.h 195, Gfpp, Notre Dame. 1. h ITS Horween, Harvard, f. b 194 Secund Team Weston. Wisconsin, r.e .165 Scott. Wisconsin, r.t 19a! Acosta, Yale, r.g 197! Ah under, Syracuse, c 19 1 I Woods. Harvard, Lg 220 1 Smoot. Oklahoma, l.t ...216, IE. Anderson. Notre Dame, l.e.,..lCt Turie. Princeton, q.b itu I Haines. I'eiin State, r. h 170 1 Stinchcomb. Ohio State. Lb 130 Crangle. Illinois, f h 197 livery man mentioned has ir-mend-!ou8 physical power, speed, finished: mechanicol ability to do the tusks allotted al-lotted to his retpertlve position and the kind of spirit which wills to victory against any oddB. GOOD l ndn i i ,. If any one position can b said toi have larked a generous crop of stars j H Is the wing department. The great-1 t-st ones have shown in tho west where! the forward pass has been more ouc-eesafully ouc-eesafully used. The Improvement in the defense against the aerial attack! is perhaps the cause of the dearth. Carney of Illinois and Mullcr of Cal- Ifornla arc a pair who hav shown exceptional ability to do the work assigned as-signed to them. They arc rangy, fast, effective on defense as well as offense and blessed with the necessary dash for the position Weston of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, B Anderson of Notre Dame. I Beldlng of Iowa and Robertson of Dartmouth are other great wing mi n STAB T ACK Li s. Flashy tackles, who dominate their positions, aro Keck of Princeton and Sonnenberg of Dartmouth. Keck, who can also kick In a convincing manner, appears to be almost In a class by himself. while Dartmouth's chief BOU !" strength has been ,,i Soiinen- jberg. Smoot of Oklahoma is another luminarj who bas filled the shoes that Tolbert left vacant when he went to Cambridge Scott of W isconsin has performed his duties- brilliantly, while Huffman of Ohio state deserves laurels laur-els Qullck of Syracuse, Slater of towa and Qoets ot Michigan also rank among the best. GREAT (.1 RDS. The choice of the season's guards is jn Uoted to Tolbert of Harvard and I Griffiths .'i Penn State Tolbert, the giant Oklahomao, has paved the way .for the Crimson attack that has ex-i ex-i hausted opponents in nearly every game Griffiths has been a brilliant I team for Coach Bezdek. Acosta of V ale Woods of Harvard, Dickinson Of Princeton, Trolt of Ohio State and Bunge of Wisconsin ha also stood . out. PIVOT ii:n enter play has come into its own foi full recognition of Its Importance lie must pass Intricately and accurate accur-ate 1 3 to fasl moving back If his team Is l to go with due precision. He Is re-QUired re-QUired i diagnose the enemy's play and quickly do a lion's sharo of tho at- i tack. Captain Dopier of Illinois is, perhaps, per-haps, tho best big center In the country, coun-try, as Weavi r Is the choice light pivot man In the game. Depler has been ' I big factor In the Huskers success, be-1 sl.leg carrying the additional duty ofi i'. i m loader. Alexander IS next in line! as a big center He has revealed a style of play that is called the roving center His size should make him out-i rank the doughty Weaver. Havem -er of Harvard, Mike Callahan of Prim eton. .-mil Tim, his older brother :it Yah- ire powers to their teams Captain Stein m ritt has given s..nie great exhibitions of what a center should do. The great and heroic "Bo" McMllhn, of little Centre College, was a great player in H'l'J, but It an truthfully ho said after his showing at Harvard that he Is better than over. All that .m ideal ipiarterback should be McMU- m ilin seems to be able to do perfectly. lK If he could pass over and run through and around the Harvard eleven with a weak iine behind him, he would be littti short of marvelous In the bock-ground bock-ground of the mythical eleven. LOL KIE NKXT. Don IOurlo of Princeton has run ICcMlllln a i lose race for the honor of being the best quartejr. Perhaps only In experience does he fall short of McMUUn's level Boynton of Williams Wil-liams Is the greatest Individual quarter ,of the year. Aubrey Devlne of Iowa 'Is an excellent field general. "Hoge" Workman of Ohio Stule Is the star .passer of the year Hob Fletcher of 'Illinois Is one of the best kicking 1 quarters. BRILLIANT BACKS. Horween of Harvard and Gipp of JNotro Dame are two backs about wm .whom there should be little argument Ffl Powerful, experienced, fast and pos-jscssed pos-jscssed of unusual ability us Individual 'and team players, they aro entitled to 'their well-won honors on the A 1 1 -'American team. Gipp s drop kicking lability is always a throat to tho opposing oppos-ing team in addition to his other laccompltsmmcntS. Horween can hit (the line, tear through unj team on 'off tackle plays and clear the wu With certainty for end runs as well as lead n team inspirlnglj. SOONER KICKER. Phil White of Oklahoma, while he has never exhibited his stuff In tho east, is one of the 1920 super-pla ers. bite has plunged, run, kicked and passed the Sooner eleven Into a cham-jplonship cham-jplonship the first year It became a member of the Valley conf renre Xo eastern or western puntor has sur- p i -Med his record. Crangle of Illinois hos been the wonder won-der back of Zuppke's machine. Other backfteld brilliants are Haln-s end Way of Penn State. Stinchcomb of Ohl State, who Is hailed as pe.haps the smartest player of the day. Da vies of Pitt, Sprott of California. Cali-fornia. Templeton of Stanford, who is the greatest of all punters, Owen of Harvard. French of tho Army and Kl- llot of Wisconsin. Many all-star se- lections could be chosen from theso forthe backflold of any great team. |
