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Show BRONKO NAGURSKI - MISSES CALLING Coach Spears of Minnesota Lauds Ability of Gopher. Dr. Clarence Spears of the Minnesota Minne-sota football team rates Bronko Na-gurskl Na-gurskl as the best tackle In the Western West-ern conference when he's playing that position and the best full back If be happens to be stationed at that Important Im-portant post "But you ought to see him piny end," said the Minnesota coach Hie other duy In a fanning bee when he was about ready to admit to bis listeners lis-teners that his all around star probably prob-ably Is the best football pluyer he ever had. "I've bud to move this 200 pounder around to suit our needs last year and this year," the couch started In. "1 have known all along that no matter mat-ter where I put biro he will do all 1 ask him, and more than that. If 1 kept li lin where he's at his best he would play end all of the time. He can and has run the hundred In 10.1. Last year and again thla year he's running any ot my backs any time they challenge him. "As s pass grabber he's the last word. At running Interference or breaking up opposing plays and smearing smear-ing the runner, well, as an end be does these things Just a little bit better bet-ter than be does as a tackle or a full back." The All-American Is a good newspaper news-paper or magazine gag; It also stimulates stimu-lates and encourages some players, but as far as doing what It pretends to do Is concerned. It Is a Joke and always will be. Ninety per cent of the ma- terlul on which the selection is based Is pure hearsay, no one mun being uble to see more tbun a dozen or so teams In action, and often this hearsay Is all hooey. Occasionally a man will look good because of weak opposition, while a far better mun Is barely able to keep his head above water tn the toughest kind of going. The All-American la like the distinguished dis-tinguished service awards to soldiers. Some fellows who deserve them get them, but thousands who hnve s better bet-ter right to them don't get them. Rutgers university celebrated the sixtieth annlversnry of the first Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate football game, at special chapel. Ex Senator George H. Large ot Flemlngton, N. J., aud several other members of the Itutgers football team which defeoted Princeton by the score of 6 to 4 In the first Intercollegiate contest on November 6, 180!, were guests of honor. Dr. John M. Thomas, president of Rutgers, and Col. John T. Axton, university chaplain, were the principal speakers, and the entire varsity and freshmen football squads will be present. World's featherweight pugilistic title stock lilt a new high on the big board of the New York sock exchange In Madison Square Garden the other day. Mutohniaker Tom McArdle bid 84 per cent of the gate receipts for the services of Battling Bnttallno In a title bout with Kid Chocolate the latter part of January, but Pete Rcllly. the Bat's private broker, asked a flat guarantee guar-antee of $.(M00. There was no sale. Outfielder Kotherglll has been recognized rec-ognized for the last few years as the most formidable pinch hatter In the league. He Is to Detroit what "Moose" McTormlck used to be to the New York Giants. According to Fotherglll his lifetime pinch hatting average Is better than -II HI. If this is the case, and Mr. Fotherglll Foth-erglll is a gentleman who exercises extreme cure In keeping bis hatting records straight, then Fotherglll slumped In l!)'J!t when he batted only ..'ft) In the pinches Still, II was better than anyone else did. The punting of dipt. Jim Mooney of Georgetown has been an ' Important factor in the team s success this sen-son sen-son tn keeping the enemy ' out of Georgetown territory. In early season games Mooney repeatedly outdistanced rival kickers by from 10 to 21 1 yards His work this yen- bus surpassed that of last season, when he was considered consid-ered one of the best kicker In the fount ry. Klorhhi takes Its football seriously. When Florida met Georglu Tech tn Atlanta At-lanta It was accompanied by l.fUNI students stu-dents iirul S.'iiKl other fans. Including Gov. tNiyle R Carlton and ten state otllcials. A holiday was declared at the university. Ben l.oin. stellar hnlfhack of the University of California, ts probably the most nicknamed player In recent years at the Berkeley Institution. Every now and then In the course of football history a player crops up whose distinctive style of play earns him a name that sticks In early days at fiillfornlii, for Instance, there was "Locomotive" Smith. Another was "Kiinganio Pete" Kanrsberg. so named for bis commendable nullity In .rata-putting .rata-putting himself over the opposing line by stepping on a leamiiinie's back, using him as a human spring. So it Is with Ben I.0111. who Is listed in the students directory as plain Benjamin Ben-jamin l.oin of Sun Francisco. Unlike the above-mentioned gentlemen In the local football hall of fame. Lorn has many nicknames. , Night football guinea among schools and colleges of the United States hni reached such a titact that the national football -ules committee has Issued s special ruling to permit the use of white footbulls for these arcllght battles. bat-tles. Andrew Brown, a pioneer soccer fan and. former president of the United suites Koothnll association, will head the Bocc-sr leatrue that has Just been reorganized from nmnng the warring factions of the American, or outlaw league. Tli football squad of Princeton university uni-versity Is represented by students from eleven states in the Union Arizona. Ari-zona. Florida. Illinois Maryland, New Jersey New Tork. North Carolina, hlo. 1 klnhoma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. |