All American

Since the death of Walter Camp a traditional splash of football comment for the autumn flies no more. Walter Camp, Yale player and coach, often called "Father of American Football," picked each year an All-American eleven. These were presumed to be the best eleven players in the land and the honor of belonging to the group was limitless. The selections were printed in nearly every important journal in the land; the advertisng value of selecting the official All-American was vast. So vast was it that various publications have since attempted to usurp it. Grantland Rice, widely syndicated sports writer for the New York Herald-Tribune, picks an eleven for

Collier's magazine, where each season Mr. Camp's choices were published under copyright. Various newspapers hire a coach or groups of coaches to choose an All-American. Other papers make studious summaries of every All-American selection available and triumphantly weed out the winners. But it remained for the New York Sun to make the most determined effort. This fall the Sun scattered football writers everywhere: on the Pacific, in the Middle West, Southwest, South, Missouri Valley, and throughout the East; 129 elevens were examined.

From all this exploration, an All-American eleven was announced. Eleven All-American alternates were named. 118 players received honorable mention. Southern California and Yale place two each on the first eleven. Yale placed 12 men (every regular save one guard, plus two substitute backs) on the complete list. Princeton seven. No other college more than four. The team:

PLAYER COLLEGE POSITION

Oosterbaan Michigan L.E.

Hibbs So. California.. L.T.

Webster Yale L.G.

Bettencourt St. Mary's C.

Smith Notre Dame R.G.

Perry Army R.T.

Shiver Georgia R.E.

Drury So. California Q.

Caldwell Yale L.H.

Welch Pittsburgh R.H.

Joesting Minnesota F.