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Show J PICKS THROVE AS GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYElf '' ' " " " " " " " f WM cf if NO PCOt "BAI L ViCW-ITJ B3 H1I.1A 1 s Who is the greatest college football plS) er ef all time ' There Is .i question that will create endless argument. There Is sure to bo . i wide difference of opinion Recently Coach Howard Jones of Iowa f.t id that he never saw a better I all-around back field man than Arthur i Devine. Coach Williams of Minnesota. 1 made a like statement relative to the i Iowa star. Coach Jones said he would he willing will-ing to go back 20 years and place Dovlne on ony All-Amerlcnn team ever selected nnd feel that he was entitled to such a position of honor. The eensatiOnal play of Kllllnger of Penn State during the season Just I closed lias caused a lot e,f eastern experts to rale him as the greatest running back In the history' of the game. Now comes Glen Warner, tho fa- ' mnus coach of the University of Pitts- i burgi one of the greatest football mentors in the history of the game. ' , with his choice a the greatest football player cf all time. Who does Coach Warner pick " Neme other than Jim Thorpe, ho of j Carlisle school fame. Glen Warner CO ached the Cnrll-le' Indians for years anel developed s'.tiic .f the greatest players ihe game liaS I ever produceel. .iniemg them . Jim ' Thorpe Here is what Warner thinks I of Thorpe: "On the football field Jim Thorpe Was never equaled. He 1" the greatest player the game has ever produced. "I never knew a player who coulel penetrate the line like Thorpe. lie ; seemcel to sense the hole through! . which to break. "As for speed, no football player ; lever carrleel the ball down the field with the dazzling speeel of Thorpe. 1 "Kllllnger has been nient.oned n. the greatest running back in the his-' lory of the game. The I'enn star Is i n greut player. However, those who confer the hcuior on hlrn of lielng the greatest runAing back of all time certainly cer-tainly never saw Thorpe In action. i "He could go skidding through first I and second defense, knock off a tackier tack-ier or two. stop short, turn past another an-other and e-scape the enure pack When tackled he could go further with a man hanging on his legs than any player I ever saw. Jim Thorpe was a born football player. He knew everything that a I football player could be taught, and! then he could execute the plays hetter' than any couch evr ejreamed of." That is the oplnlon'of ijlen Warner. ; It is a certainty some tribute. Jim . Thorpe Is now around tV- 40 mark. I but as a professional player he Is still c brilliant performer. : i |