| Show ERNIE NEVERS IS A BASEBALL STAR one of few gridiron players to shine on diamond ernie nevers pitcher on the staff of the st louis browns Is the only all american football player in the major leagues As a plunging running kicking and passing back at stanford he be won the highest honor the ganic can bestow in 1025 nevers kevers was a better football fullback b ack than he Is baseball pitcher but he Is improving and may grow to bo be a star great football players in recent years have not been sensational successes in baseball two star pitchers of earlier days daya christy hewson and chief bender were good football players at bucknell and dickinson jim thorpe rated by followers of the game as footballs greatest player did not start a it conflagration in major league baseball lie he was never on very ery good terms with curve balls bails and big league hooks finally anally proved hla his nemesis nemes ls lie ile was an outfielder of sorts sort gordon cordon cochrane of the athletics and boston un university hersIty was a great football player and should be classed perhaps not very far behind nevers nevera frankle frisch was the Ford fordham harn flash as a quarterback before he ha broke into major league baseball and eddie colllns collins played quarter for columbia several years before frisch entered Ford fordham bam vie vic hanson syracuse all american end and captain of the baseball team was invited to join the yankees and other clubs but declined mike alike gazella gacella Gac lla utility infielder lelder of the yankees did not have to sit on the bench when the lafayette football team was playing olenn glenn all american back at penn state was waa never able to make the all and the same fate befell howard berry the pennsylvania dynamo who made an unsuccessful bid for a place placa in the cast of the glante Glan nt tg |
