All-Americans

Smiling faces, brawny forms in dinner coats were seen in the Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, Manhattan, where an All-American team met for the first time in the history of football. The team was picked, the players invited, the dinner given, by the New York Sun. Sports writers of other papers were surly; they did not like to mention the Sun's dinner for the Sun had stolen a march on them. The dinner and the Sun's choice of players may become a football tradition, they knew, and moaned their vanished opportunity. Meanwhile Oberlander, Tully and Diehl of Dartmouth eleven; Oosterbaan and Friedman of Michigan; Sturhahn and Joss of Yale; Weir of Nebraska, McMillan of Princeton, Tryon of Colgate, Grange of Illinois, ate and drank and were entertained by the antics of those procured to amuse them--certain talented ladies from Broadway night clubs and W. H. Edwards (large Peter Pan of Princeton), who acted as toastmaster.