The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1904, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL — e v weaklings among the g th fifty who signed year at Stan- A sress. se who 75 and r to get werful game. universities during these be Hinkey of Yale, e for that place on ognized. T would be filled by Camobell of Harvard, who was the S SO S SRS OSSR SIS S S GINS IS 0NN ERICA’S GREATEST FOOTBALL TEAM--By Walter Camp 3 L .3 n to college, ESS05505%: All-America teams for Both of these men were at Yale when a freshman, and h he was by no means athletic ance nor of muscular bul e st ount of opponents to diagnose and ge d of interference that was sent end. In addition to that he essed that mo: valuable charac- ic of an end, intuition as to where the plays were going and ability to be ays on hand when the ball came down. His career was one of steady in his final cap- ta 23 team. Campbell of Harvard was the choice of the All-America team in 1899, 1900 and 1991. He was a man of muscular bui although not as heavy as some of the more modern ends which the recent changes in rules are developing, but he was very powerful and fast in getting down the fieid. His especial forte was in assisting his own runner in attack, and in . this he stood out above all other ends of his time. In fact, it is upon this quality that he would be given the place. There were few ends who might match him in 4 sive work or in getting down the fi and none of them were quite his equal in tackling, while his particular cTEEOGGNKN LEFZ7 THCHLE ForR. A Totrcr DO . his runner, ne or after the and his strength along, meant Newell of tar tackle tigurec I-America team: would be a captain and one ful men who ever He figured on the e first year of thi Hector place the previous been such selection made. Por guards the choice would be Heffelfinger of Yale, selected for the Ajl-America teams of 1388, 1839 and 1§90, and that phenomenal guard, Glass of Yale. Truxton Hare of the University of vania, in the All-America teams 1898, 1899 and 1900, under other conditions would undoubtedly have been an equal selection to these two, and would have been chosen as many as he played on any first-class eam, but he was not played as a guard, but in most of Pennsylvania's big games was called upon to do prac- tically all the running (all, at any rate, that was effective) with the ball, and on defense to -wn out from his position at guard and tackle men whe got around the end, and, finally, added to all this, he was called upon to do the punting. A man with such versatility, if he had ten good men with him, would have been able to pull out a good many victories for his team, but forced to do all the work himself. and wil game and put through ! werk. Fifteen minutes dally serve to loosen up for punts, 'd guards were started two at a time, af! , there was the < after the opening mateh games with teams begin, and the football swing. It is not, how about five weeks after raining has commenced that s to form into shape. e it is pretty weil sett 1l make the -team. al P support, it was meore than could be asked. Gordon Brown of Yale. also a selec- tion for four years om Ali-America teams, would be chosen without a doubt were it not for the phenomenal giants already noted. Heffelfinger of Yale has stoed out for years as the king of the guard po- sition. He was a most powerful man in bulld, without any superfiuous flesh, and was a remarkably fast runmer. So fast, indeed, that at one time. when Yale was in great difficulties as to the question of securing an end., the pro- ject was considered of playing Heffel- nger at the end of the line, and he as quite fast enough to perform the work, being even from his position in the line one of the first mem to xet down the fleld under kicks. He was not only a strong player, but a strat- egic one, and he had studled the possi- bilities of his pesition wntil he had made far more of it than had ever been made before. He was not used in running with the ball, because Yale's rstem has always been based upon he idea that the guard, if he perform his work properly, has so much to do, especially in defense, that it is hardly worth while to exhaust him unduly by giving him more running to do on the attack. Glass of Yale was on All-America teams the only vear he played and was the reliance of the Yale line ih that year, always being ready, fortunately for himself and the team, to perform a good deal more than the lion's share of the work. Like Heffelfinger, he carried no superfluous weight, but was a big, t en places at “There is nothing peculi th am strengthened and the chance of s ing increased. powerful man, with tremendous and willingness. In contests in w he playel he marked man attack and re difficuit positio of Amherst and America tea select, but Lew! vard and the A 1558 and 1399 has a shade the bet > it when g is considered the solemn was an ac attack an perfority antedated For quarterback Daly of Har and West Poin teams of 1893, 1399 skipping one year, for lowing prac e sole win the West Po gam his side, has phenomenal rec of any of quarters. Beecher of Yale, one best remembered quarterbacks. dated the selection of the All-Am teams. In the back field, McClung of Yale of the All-Ameniga teams « and 1391, was the best, all sidered, of a of the men in vosit! ng fuilback 1 would go to Butterworth of Yale and the All-America man on the teams of 1893 and 13884 {Couvrizht. 1904. The Indevendent.)