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Show SPORT CRITICS DRAW CRITICISM O O O O O O O OO o o o DIFFERENCES OF OPINION IS RULE1 BY AL WARDEN. Critics who select all -star football teams In any section of tho United States usually como in for a panning regardless of whether their criticism Is Just or unjust When nny critic picks an alUsomsthlng football mythical myth-ical aggregation he naturally selects the men he thinks best fitted for the positions. Difference of opinion during dur-ing tho present season has beon listed perhaps more In all sections of the country than at any other period In the history of the game. Only a few days ago The Stnndard-Ebtamlner Stnndard-Ebtamlner featured the cream of the "Rocky Mountain conference" playerH as picked by BHUe Evans, ports editor for N. E. A service at Cleveland, Evans' selection was based on selections selec-tions submitted by sports writers Ire Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, the man being chosen by vote. Yet, this self same gent Is being punned, razzed and criticized for not placing a slnglo University of Utah man on his first eleven. The only player from Utah who succeeded suc-ceeded in landing a place on Evans' selection was Knowles of the Utah Aggies. The remainder of the team was named from the Colorado schools In justice to Evans lot It be .i i 1 that th writer submitted an all-I all-I conference selection to Evans, naming three Ut;ih men and one Utah Aggie. It Is a known fact that at least one and possibly two other sports writers of Utah named other Utah players, but thi y were in all probability outvoted out-voted by the Colorado and Wyoming scribes. SCRIBES PANNED. Th pro and con discussions which follow finy mythical Ion are just as much a part of tho grid season as the pre-season training in the training camps Therefore. while 1 many do not agree with tho selection selec-tion as submitted as final by E LnS, due to the fact that the University of Utah won the conference title, it gives the fans food for thought for tht off season Just a few years ago the University of Colorado grabbed a conference title, yet tho Boulder aggregation failed to land a single lndMdual player on the mythical selection. This phase is a common occurrence in all parts of the United States. Only last Sunday Walter Eckersall, writing in the Chicago Tribune, selected se-lected his annual Big Ten teams, three In number, yet this gent failed to mention Johnny Thomas, the sensational sensa-tional halfback of the Chicago urilv r-l sity eleven during the past season. Thomas since that tlmo has been; mentioned for All-Amerlcan honorsJ which just tends to show the differ-1 ence of opinion However, few writers writ-ers In tho country who have selected J Big Ten t-ams have failed to glvei Thomas a place. This chap was con-, sldered the real wizard of the Maroon, backfield, being a star of the first order. He tallied three touchdowni against Princeton In that famous 21 to 18 battle yet he falls to get mentioned men-tioned by Eckersall. CHANGE NOTED HERE, in a poll taken by coaches of the Rocky Mountain conference, iiurrn of Utah and Knowles Gf tho Aggies I wero selected fur first team honors. Clem Crowley, the "Walter Camp" 1 of the Rocky Mountain conference In' ; his seVoctlon which appears In this section today, places Hancock on his first eleven with Knowles, Hurren receiving re-ceiving but honorable mention. This is another case of the vast difference of opinion that rulos. Tien Nelson Norgren was a student , at the University of Chicago he ww termed a wonderful backfield man. I After leaving the Maroon school and i accepting a position at the University ! of Utah as athletic coach, Norgren was named by Walter Camp for sec- ond All-Amerlcan honors. As a matter mat-ter of fact. Nelson Norgren was dlre-tlng the athletic team.- at Utah while his younger brother Hans was pluylng for Chicago. This error caused a reul laugh In all ports of the country coun-try but ls not an uncommon one In football. Mythical selections, honor rolls as they are, In many Instances are opinions of lone. Individuals Yet the;, are looked forward to annual! ly ty thousands nnd thousands of fan.-; and players It In a sort of n spicy finish to the grid season. Whether the .elections are Individ ual. by vote, whether they cause the pickers no end of panning they are features which If discarded would tend to take away a good portion of the interest listed annually. And While Fckersall and F.vans and Cores of othT.s have been panned, the are not alone In being subjected to orltlclsm It is merely one of those happenings in the sport world that tends to keep the m heel of Interest turning ocr. |