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Backfield Men Likely so Do Most of the Starring This Season
FLYNN, OF YALE, PROMISES TO BE ANOTHER COY
By Monty.
T £W YORK, Oct. 12. —This is a
\! -back field year” in football.
<• ' Practically every new man of
,n\ real promise whatever devel
ped this far, in the East at least,
. member of the ball carrying
' or ps. It seems certain that when
,p curtain shall have ruttg down
v the chd of November, the fellow
a/ the season s greatest,
gridiron warrior will be one of the
: artet behind the line. Yale. Har
vard. Princeton and Pennsylvania
—the Biff sour —all have their one
particular crack who has jumped
nt ‘ the fore at the outset.
Durin-; the last decade the bright
special lights of the several seasons
aw hailed from almost every po
sition.
I.ast year he was an end—the
only and peerless Sam White.
<.f Princeton, who picked up fum
bled balls and galloped over half
ilu field length in scoring victo
ries over Yale. Harvard and Dart
mouth.
The preceding- season he was a
, )U arter back —Earl Sprackling, of
Brown, who, practically unsupport
ed by a mediocre team, tore off
open held runs of dazzling brillian
cy, his greatest achievement being
en almost single handed defeat of
Yale.
In 1909 Jack Kilpatrick, a typical
Yale style of 200-pound end. was
the sensation, his wing of the team
being totally impregnable all the
vear. and his work in getting down
under kicks put him among the
greatest ends in history.
Coy Greatest of All.
The season of 1908 brought forth
rite man considered by many the
greatest that ever played. He was
a full back, the tremendous Ted
Coy. of Yale, the best all around
kicker of his year, and the most
powerful line pulverizer within
memory.
That this year of 1912 will offer a
nan even closely comparable with
Ted Coy is not to be expected.
Another full back was the star of
1907 in Sam Kennard, of Harvard,
who made a field goal that beat
Yale.
Walter Eckersall, Chicago’s mar
velous quarter back of 1906, was in
a class by himself as a drop kicker,
was an untouchable specter in an
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•
: Big Football Men ;
: Os Past 10 Years:
• 1902—Harold Weeks. Columbia. •
• half back. «
• 1903 —Willie Heston, Michigan. •
• half back. •
• 1904—John DeWitt. Princeton, •
• guard. •
• 1905—Tom Shevlin. Yale. end. •
• 1906—Walter Eckersall. Chica- •
• go, quarter back. •
• 1907 —Sam Kennard. Harvard. •
• full back •
• 1908 —Ted Coy. Yale, full back. •
• 1909—John Kilpatrick. Vale, end. •
• 1910—Earl Sprackling. Brown. •
» quarter back. •
• 1911—Sam White. Princeton, end. •
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
open field, a sturdy interferer for
his backs and an unfailing general
in directing the attack.
Tom Shevlin, a human combina
tion of a battering ram, stone wall
and bullet, who featured every Yale
game in 1905, was a greater end
even than Kilpatrick, because of
the fearful speed with which he
hurled his 200 pounds down the
field.
In 1904 the guard position had its
day. John DeWitt, certainly the
most sensational and one of the
most capable linemen in the annals of
the game, held the center of the
stage. His long run, a la Sam
White, followed by a 45-yard goal
after a fair catch, humbled Yale
and won the Tigers the battle.
Then There Was Heston.
Willie Heston, a half back of the
irresistible, keep-on-going, tear
them-apart sort, won the 1903 hon
ors for Michigan. Now. coming to
the first year of the decade, we
find Columbia possessing the top
rung man. He was Harold Weeks,
the wonderful half back and hur
dler, whose fame has lived in New
York’s big university these ten
years, though the game he helped
make great has been under faculty
ban.
Surveying the entire ten years,
we find three ends, two quarter
backs, one guard, two full backs
and two half backs in the conspic
uous class. In other words, there
are four linemen and six backs. The
line seems t<> stand little chance
of catching up any of the difference
this year.
Flynn Is a Wonder.
The quartet who have bounded to
the fore are Flynn of Yale, Hard
wick of Harvard. Fred Trenkman
of Princeton, and Harrington of
Pennsylvania. Os the bunch Hard
wick and Flynn look the best, with
an edge in favor of Flynn. The
latter played his first varsity game
for Yale against Syracuse a week
ago, and was two-thirds of the at
tack, as well as a star on de
fense. Among other things, he
scored two of Yale’s three touch
downs and still another, which was
disallowed because the officials
considered that he hurdled one
tackler. All of them were on runs
of betw-een 20 and 50 yards. At
Yale they are booming "Lefty”
Flynn, a second Ted Coy. That, to
be sure, Is going a little too far.
but. after seeing his groat perform
ance of last week, we can not do
otherwise than declare him to ap
pear at least the equal of any man
since the great Ted.
Walter Camp. Jr., a Star.
It Is sincerely to be hoped that
the illness of Walter Camp, Jr., will
not prove so serious as to keep him
off the Yale eleven in the fall. If
in condition, he should prove, as he
did toward the close of last season,
one of the most valuable men on
the team, both as runner and kick
er. The younger Camp's path to
football fame has not been an easy
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1912.
one yet his development was steady
until shortly before the Princeton
game last year, when he came along
by leaps and bounds. Camp played
three great games against Brown.
Princeton and Harvard.
The most remarkable feature of
Camp's play was a use of the stiff
arm in running, which is peculiarly
his own. It is true that he has
had some special coaching at the
hands of his father, but it is great
ly to' his own credit' that he has
been able to develop a style of run
ning about as difficult to face as
any to be found on the football
field.
Generally speaking, the stiff arm
is not used so much by the bigger
backs. Wendell of Harvard relies
upon his terrific shoulder drive te
throw off the tackler, and Ted Coy
used to run with a high knee ac
tion that was as effective as the
stiff arm. Corbett of Harvard and
Brown of the Army were backs
who relied on what is known as
"flinging the feet."
CHICAGO BOY JUMPS
FROM SCHOOL TO RING
CHICAGO, Oct. 12. —From the
high school football field to
the prize ring; from the halls
t>f learning into the heat of fistic
fray; from moleskins into trunks
and boxing gloves—that's the jump
Ben Groutch, who captained a
championship Cook county high
school football team last fall, has
decided to take
Groutch w’as graduated from
Crane High school last June with
a diploma and the reputation of
being one of the best football play
ers who ever made a tackle for the
Crane colors. He played three years
on the team, the first two as a half
back and the last one, 1911, as a
fullback. In 1911 he was the cap
tain of the gridiron squad.
Groutch's 1911 team work won the
Cook county championship last
fall In the minor division of high
schools. That was as far as
Groutch could lead his team, for
the boys were not big enough to
compete in the major division.
During vacation last summer
Groutch watched (that is, he did
watch for awhile) some of the fa
mous ringmen sw-atting one an
other about the Nate Lewis gym
nasium in Madison street. Groutch
is a cousin of Nathan and haunted
his place because he loved the
thud of the padded fist, just as
much as he enjoyed the smack of a
sharp tackle on the field of high
school glory—the gridiron.
Groutch Boxes K. O. Brown.
One day when Groutch was pres
ent there sw-aggered into the gym
nasium as tough a looking party
as one would care to gaze on at
close quarters. The rough person
began to divest himself of his
clothes preparatory to a workout
1n the ring. As Groutch watched
the fellow's bulging muscles he
asked Lewis, "Who is that man?”
"That's Knockout Brown. the
coming champion of the middle
weights,” remarked Lewis, who
manages the Greek term-. “Do
you want to box with him? He is
shy of sparring partners* because
he hits them too hard.”
To Lewis’ surprise. Groutch real
ly consented He got into some
trunks, pulled on some big mitts
and went six rounds with the
knockout lad. who has fought all
the good 158-pounders in the game.
The gridiron hero and the ring
veteran went at it In slam-bang
fashion and the moleskin boy was
on his feet after eighteen minutes.
He took a lacing, but he smiled
back through the blood that smear-
LARRY M’LEAN MEETS
CHARLEY SCHMIDT AT
NEW YORK TUESDAY
NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—N0 bout that
has been arranged for this city, not
even excepting the bouts in which
champions, alleged champions and
near-champions have figured. has
caused more interest than that in which
"Larry" McLean, catcher extraordinary
of the Cincinnati National league base
ball club, and "Charlie" Schmidt, chief
of the catching bureau of the Provi
dence International league team, will
be the principals at the New Star Ath
letic club next Tuesday night.
At last these two exponents of the
padded mitt and mitts are to meet
within the confines of the squared ring.
They have been at loggerheads for
some time and have threatened more
than once to settle their differences
without obligating thmselves to adhere
to the well defined demands of the
Marquis of Queensberry code as modi
fied and regulated by the state athletic
commission.
Finally they went to the manager of
the New Star and requested that they
be permitted to use the club's ring. The
manager's business instinct whispered
to him and he decided that they might,
provided the public be admitted to see
the contest, and McLean and Schmidt
agreed.
ed his sacs and looked ready’ for
more.
Lewis thought well of him from
that time, on, and so did Brown.
Groutch and the Greek are the best
of friends. Lewis has agreed to
handle Ben. and in a month or so
will start matching him up. He
calls him a middleweight "hope."
He Is Only a Kid.
Groutch has just turned twenty
years. He weighs about 152 pounds
stripped and is growing right along.
He'll be a real middleweight pretty
soon.
Lewis and Brown expect to make
a trip to the coast this winter and
they intend to take Groutch with
them. They want him to see the
best in action and to learn all he
can before they start him out aft
er the good one.
Groutch Is strong, well behaved
and is ambitious. Brown predicts
a bright future for him.
The former Crane gridiron star
was bo:n in Chicago. He is a Jew
and lives at 3348 Lexington street.
He says he’ll box any middleweight
who communicates with that num
ber.
SOX AND CUBS TIE: MAY
PLAYGAMES ALL WINTER
CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—With the score
tied 3 to 3. the second game of the
series between the Chicago American
and National league clubs was called
yesterday in the twelfth Inning because,
of darkness. The game was the sec
ond tie in the series, the opening con
test Tuesday ending without a score.
Lord and Weaver collided at full
speed in center field in the eighth in
ning, w-hen each was trying for Mil
ler’s hit. They were knocked uncon
scious, and both had to be carried from
the field. Lord quickly recovered, but
Weaver was in a dazed condition for
several hours.
Johnson, a recruit, who took Wea
ver’s place at short, enabled the White
Sox to tie up the game in the ninth
Inning, after the Cubs had taken the
lead in the eighth. With Borton on
first. Johnson tripled, scoring him. Eas
terly followed with a triple, his fourth
hit of the game, and brought Johnson
home with the tteing run.
WEAVER. THOUGH BADLY
HURT. IS OUT OF DANGER
CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—George "Buck"
Weaver, member of the White Sox
team, who was injured yesterday in the
second game of the city series when he
collided with Captain Harry Lord, was
declared out of danger today bv Dr. .1
H. Blair.
Weaver's injuries, at first thought t<>
be serious, were superficial, according
to the physician. He believes the short
stop can get back in the game by th"
middle of next w eek
John Tigers, Famous Vandy Player, Tells of the Greatest Play He Ever Saw
HOW JOHN EDOERTON WON GAME ALL BY HIMSELF
By John J. Tigers.
(Fullback of the Vanderbilt football
. team in 1901-02-03-04 and later
the first Rhodes scholar from
Tennessee to Oxford. England.)
rj'AHERE Is such a diversity of
| play in modern football and
such a difference in their na
ture that many kinds of plays are
practically Incomparable. It is dif
ficult to compare a wonderful kick
with a skillfully executed forward
pass, or an old-time smash through
the line with half trie team hiking
the man with the ball, with one of
these artful, dodging runs through
a broken field which so delights
spectators.
The most remarkable kick I ever
saw was in a game of Rugby, play
ed at Oxford. England, between the
all-South Africans and Oxford uni
versity. A South African, running
at top speed and surrounded by
several tacklers, dropped a goal
from the field at a distance of about
35 yards.
This is no effort at humor, nor
application for membership in the
Ananias club. It’s a fact.
It was truly a wonderful play,
and the ball sailed over the center
of the posts clear out of the park.
It looked as if it w-ould have gone
over from the center of the field.
Yea. 80, It Was Some Kick.
It very much resembled in this
respect a kick made by Kilpatrick,
of Sewanee, in 1900. which won a
game from Vanderbilt by an eye
lash, as It were.
Vanderbilt had made two touch
downs and had missed both goals.
Sewanee had made one touchdown
and kicked goal. There were only
a few minutes to play and Vandy
seemed to have the game stowed
away on ice. Sewanee heeled a
fair catch near the center of the
field. With the wind blowing a
hurricane behind his back, Kilpat
rick kicked the ball clear out of the
lot. He could not have kicked it
nearer the center of the bar if he
had measured it with a rule and
the ball landed in the top of a tree
standing behind the north goal on
Dudley- field. In those days a goal
from the field tallied five points, so
this phenomenal kick gave the Ti
gers the game by a score of 11
to 10.
I have seen Phil Connell dash
down the field bowling over a whole
team with his arm, one after an
other, as fast as they came to him.
I have seen "Huldy" Davis make
touchdowns from the kickoff, side
stepping man after man. I have
seen Bob Blake catch punts and run
through a whole team for a touch
down. I have seen Frank Kyle
shoot along like a rabbit, chang
ing his direction every' second and
never slacking his speed But I be
lieve the greatest play I ever saw*
was executed by John Edgerton.
Edgerton ' and Oscar Jenkins
were the greatest line plungers I
ever saw "Jenks" was faster than
“Edge," and could, with ridiculous
ease, carry as many men as could
climb on; but "Edge" had more
power and'was harder to tackle
than any man I have seen in action
in his time or since.
Edgerton's Big Play.
The play I refer to might not
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have been so spectacular to the
crowd, but it stupefied the men in
the game. If. wis in that memora
ble game between Vanderbilt and
the University of Nashville, when
Nashville had gathered a team
which averaged more than 200
pounds from tackle to tackle.
This team had overwhelmed ev
erything in the South. We hear
much of "Sewanee pluck." and de
servedly so, but this team made
Sewanee quit and ran through them
for a touchdown on a kickoff. At
the time the play I have in mind
was made neither side had scored.
Vanderbilt had held Nashville for
downs, several times within the
shadow of her own goal. and. after
three plays, a recovered punt, a
45-yard run by McLean on a de
layed pass and a penalty for off
side, now held the ball for the first
time in Nashville's territory,
I will give Grantland Rice's de
scription of the play, w ritten in his
ow n inimitable manner, since I can
not hope to equal it:
"The ball was now on Nashville's
ten-yard line. The Vanderbilt con
tingent rose in a body. Sharp and
clear the signal for Vanderbilt's
great captain was called, and Edg
erton, with the force of a batter
ing ram, hurled his weight into the
line.
"It-wavered, then gave complete
ly away and the tawney-haired
plunger came through like a shot.
Two men tackled him on the five
yard line, but he swept them off
their feet and, with superhuman
strength, writhed and wiggled and
twisted and fought his way across
the' goal line with four men trying
to check his mad march for glory."
This is the greatest play I ever
saw. I would like to add that I
have always felt exceedingly guilty
in connection with this play. We
were all so stupefied when we saw
"Edge" topple over that line of
giants and saw him get up with
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Second Ward Mass Meeting
Time—Saturday, October 12, at 8 p. m.
Place—6l South Pryor Street.
Thoughtful voters who have the best interests of
the city at heart will find it both of value and interest
to come to this meeting and hear the PLAIN TRUTH
about the present campaign.
Nearly everybody is foot loose Saturday night,
and every one, regardless of his present views is urged
to be present.
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two Titans standing on his chest on
the five-yard line, that we stood
with eyes open and mouths gaping,
rendering no more assistance to
him than is given a runner in these
latter days, since "hiking” has been
prohibited.
ATHLETICS WIN SERIES
FROM FOGEL’S PHILLIES
PHIL AD E LPHIA, Oc?.‘ 12.—T he Phil -
adelphia American league baseball
team won the championship of the city
here yesterday by defeating the Phila
delphia Nationals in the fifth game of
the inter-league series by the score of
5 to 2. The American league team took
four of the five games played.
Carroll Brown pitched for the former
world's champions. Rixey. who start
ed for the Nationals, was replaced by
Chalmers in the fifth. "Runt” Walsh,
who started on the receiving for the
Phillies, was replaced by Moran in the
third inning, after two passed balls had
been charged against him.
TICKET SPECULATORS
ARRESTED AND FINED
NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—A dozen men.
charged with ticket speculation, ar
rested outside the Polo grounds yes
terday. were fined $lO apiece In police
court.
The operations of the men apparent
ly' were of a limited nature, as most of
the arrests were made comparatively
early in the day, and none of the pris
oners was found to have more than a.
half dozen tickets. The large number
of seats —30,000 in all —available at the
gates, had left the speculators little
opportunity to ply successful trade.
CLABBY MAKES HASH OF
J. SKELLY’S SUBSTITUTE
GARY, IND., Oct. 12. Jimmy c'labby
knocked out Tom Monahan, of Chicago,
here last night. The bout was stopped
in the fourth round by Chief of Police
Martin.
Monahan was so badly punished that
it was unwise to continue the one
sided affair longer, flabby was to have
met Jack Skelly, of Terre Haute, but
Jack failed to show.
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