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Tech's Famous Football Coach Fails to Select a Single Yellow Jacket for His Team
HEISMAN’S ALL-SOUTHERN ELEVEN
Player Position eight College
Morgan Center 214 . .Vanderbilt
Tbigp en Right Guard 185 Au burn
Barker Le t Guard 191 . . . M ississippi
T. Brown Right Tackle 181 Vanderbilt
Meadows. .Left I ackle 176... Auburn
E. Brown Right End 160. . Vanderbilt
GUI ent Left End 160. . .Sewanee
Sikes Quarterback 162 \ anderbilt
Mc W h orter Right Half 174 Georgia
Ha rd age Left Half. 167 V anderbilt
Reulle Fullback .192 MissA-M
By J. W. HEISMAN
'■"TA HE Southern Intfrcollepial ■ Athletic us-uciation embraces '
I the following month r~: Alabama, Kilburn. ibnvaril. (ieor
gin. Mere r. Tech. Tulane, L S I . I niversity Mississippi.
M,ss. A. ’>l.. Mississippi collet' . .Milsaps Collide. Trinity, Clem
son. Wofford. The< ’ia<lel. I Diversity ot Florida. Vanderbilt.. Sewa
nee. I ■ tiiie-.se. . Collette ot ' havleston. I e\as \ ,v \| and three
colleges in Kentucky
Exehidinii the Kentucky and
Texas colleges on the ground of
geographical remoteness my see
lections will he confined to teams
representing the above colleges |
Center Again Goes
To Vanderbilt.
,pHE first-class center of th* .ear,
' have not been as nunnTou- is here j
tofore, and I am going to eriously j
consider but four of their. These arc,
Adams. of Mississippi: Dmton, of I. S. •
U.: Loeb, of Tech, and Morgan, of
Vanderbilt.
Adams and Dutton are much alike in
size, general ability and styli of play.
They an excellent snappers. know the
possibilities of their position, and are
grand football players, Either of them
would prove entirely acceptable in the
position on any'team in the S nth
land. They arc experienced linesmen,
and play with great vigor. It would be
a bard task to decide which is the bet
ter ’of the two
Loeb, of Tech, is al! this lacking one
thing, and that is weight. \t ftr.-.t
"Tfrr.iighl It would .-s-ein ,bsi d to dis
cuss for this position n man who weighs
but 155 pounds. Yet Loeb is possessed
of such tremendous energy, such abso
lutely indomitable fighting spirit, and
;such splendid vitality that he com
pels consideration; he overcomes a ban
s dicap of from ten to twenty pounds In
an opponent by these factors with ease. |
Thus, while differing from the othei ;
two it> general style, he ranks on a pat
with them, and a selection from one of
the three would be lust as difficult
land just as easy! to make as one from
th* first two, I will say for Loeb that
when it comes to pure grit he i ■ situ
the highest possible ranking.
Morgan Good
Heavy Man.
Morgan, of the Commodores, is the
man who helps me out of my diffi
culties, for he puts it a shade on the
others. Tills is In largi part due to
the fact that he is many pounds heav
ier than any of the other three, weigh
ing. as he docs, about 220 pounds. A
good big num I* surely better than a
good little man. and that’s all there is
to It. If Morgan couldn’t do any of
the things that th* other trio do, it
would be a different case. But you can
certainly find no fault with Morgan's
mapping, nor his charging and block -
ing. nor yet his tackling and generally
fine spirit 1i» the game And when you
add his high-grade experience to the
list of his other good points, there Is
left nothing to discuss. Morgan wot
w thh>'.. make any tea" it th. 'untcy
at center
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Guards a Puzzle
To Coach Heisman
THE selection of tin most suitable
pair of guards for our team-Is a
profound puzzle Hardly a Southern
team Is without at leari one man who
has somt claim on thii position
Probably’ the best of the lot Is Thig
| pen, of Auburn. Thit chap is well
' qualified in every respect to hold down
| the job, and if Auburn were not so well
fortified with tackles I daresay we
would sec him playing this position on
the Orange ano Blue lineup, ijin.hl''
have little opportunity to show off or
pull brilliant stuntr Steadiness and
good, consistent a*d work are the
ilYfegs that are r • < bed In a man if he 1
to play the position to the satisfacti on
of his coaches. These qualities Thig
per possesses to an ernhu nt dogre.
along with lots of weight. stt ex
perlent and knowledge of • iivw''
tine points of tin position 1 ’*w. I
'think. will be disposed to difl. wit i
this estimate of the tan. his g i
l to a position
I The man forth" other flank of our
’ center Is indeed a problem, t'onslder
-1 Ing merely tin ■' win- liavt played
'tat the guard position all -eason I
would has. litto t .übl< in m lei ting
of Mis-i-slppj A and M.
. 'Mil is big ■ o,». an . hi «-v ery
' Il
lft»u. • b- 1 ■ ' t g>> •• all
> t
is . .
former -d -m- is fi<au\ tuid a flei.■
play et . itt ■ )as b., n play ing u
■
Daves I t-limin ct* on ili< ground of j
light ne - ■ In 1•. • . ■ .
while the i;tti« r i or l In dr<»| p» d <»n the .
gr- mu .»f -ptt'd and
| j-•, noed.y a tilth limit •• ironing,
j Huth have put up a. splendid game and :
special cofimu-ndation.
Hut to be perfeutlA frank about it, I |
i do not cons!d< r any of tlmsv thro, quite >
ready for plao'-s on an all Soothei n. and
| my team woui<l wallx be too fai b» I >\\ '
standard al that spot wei* w- to use i
’ one of these men this yeai.
Switches Tackle
To Guard.
The difficulty is rounded by selecting :
one <d the numerous exceptionally good
tackles and putting him in the post- I
tlon. This may not ‘ .-ni quite fair to j
strictly guard candidates, not would \
do it In years when I considered tile
regular guards of the year able to hold
their own and maintain a standard of
play reasonably up to that of the rest
of our team
It Is particularly advisable that tie
this yeai switch • a tackle Into iht .
guard'.- place, on account of the fact '
that this all-S I A. A. represents, in
general, the best rounded-out eleven
players of the y ear, and to exclude any
one of at least thl'e. tackle- that can be I
| named wouldn ot only work a great ■
hardship on that one man, but would I
make our team look like a chain with j
one weak link when wn had plenty ot i
good, strong links lying around idle I
that we could insert at the weak spot j
' with the greatest ease
Now. 1 do uot say that this subfftl
,itution would be possible or advisable
ai every ot any old position. Thus it
would be a wild guess to say that a
good guard would make an equally good
fullback, or that a fine halfback would
do equally well at snapper. Rut guard
land tackle are ntlrely alike In their
work, the only difference being that
1 tackle Is a harder place to play su< -
. ceßsfully than guard, requires more ex
perience and agility and, generally’
. speaking, takes a better man to play it.
, But. this admitted, It follows clearly
that if a man can play tackle success
fully he can certainly play an entirely
satisfactory guard.
Barker it Left Guard.
For thosi tea sins I have decna .1 to
> put Barket. of Mississippi, at left
guard. This man weighs 11'0 pounds,
has pbived exceptionally well at tackle
i 1 ■
for three y ears, and is able to run ton
yards in 10 1-2 seconds. He is one of
the fiercest tacklers to be found any
where. and hacks up a line tn faultless
I
fashion Now, how can such a player
be kept oft my team merely because
there are two other men who play the
' tackle position about us well as he |
does" And when there is no satis
factory regular guard to nominate for
jour second guard position?
And the reason 1 want the other two
men to whom 1 refer for regular tackles '
r> on both often*? ind defense I* that they
i do their best w>>rk In the line, while
1 Barker is a star of the first magnitude
’ ’ when It comes to backing up the line
ihi secondary defense. Playing the
j guard’s position on offense, he could
1| be drawn back wl en it camo to de
i tense and play in that secondary de
i j fensiv< line. He a . Reulle. of Mls
. . sl.ssippi A. w M.. would make the best
ba . rs-u of an; nen of ibe year.
T .- wouh eat M ■ ind Thigpen
r to hold things steady In th. middle of
j I tl’.e line, and would a capita! ar
..' rangenien'.. I let it go at that.
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Tackles Also
Give Trouble.
» tT ER os< rv a ion
■ * rough t mightrul
( iinsirieration. I have come to the con-
, i lesion that Toni Brown, of Vander
bilt. Ab vlo.. s. of \tiburi. ami Barker,
of Mississippi. .U’e the three best tac
kles of the year.
It is with much reluctance that 1 re-
i Dobbins, of Scw;tne< ami Shipp, of
''[Vanderbilt, both of whom have done
K remarkably tin* work for men in their
E I first y..ir on .< college team; and 1 suf
'■•f. < .pial ■■. ntal spasms in setting
' . - I.' ... .1 ~, an.l Kelley and
■ Ha.'icy, of I'ennesse. Lamb has not
; ><n th. best of condition this year
and his game has. inconsequence, not
■ I be. n quite o goo. straight through as
-'ft wav la-t season. The Tennessee tm .
Ik • s ar, about tb< best men of that
• j tea a . They at'.- hat., v> ..rk'Ts, have th.
I. I li< S».iry ”lc t am. -i i.o ti fietitet s
t I - .v .uh gtvi on of h< ; guard po
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
| A BIT OF HEISMAN DEFENSE BY TECH!
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111.- 'i allow .lack.-ts liL’i't lor
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practically hurdle over them. 1 ... Tetdi-iieorgia game.
I
I> it i.m did I not have Barker on my I
; hands; while at tackle they an shunt- I
ed oft' because of Ihe .fact that they!
have not had the same experience as j .
the other men I have named, either l j
wit > or against high-grade tea os is
Tom Brown Great Player.
I am satisfied no one will argue with ■ 1
pue about Tom Brown's filmfor a|
j tackle’s commission, for lie has been | J
I one of the mainstays of the Vanderbilt ] j
line for several years. There seems no
limit to his ambition to improve ami . ]
to learn all the football there is to ,
know. His build for the position is ■
ideal, and he has a full and perfect ’ .
working use of his hands that faculty i
so rar> among Southern linemen. Su- |t
perb on making openings, he is an even J
better man when It comes to defensive ]'
work, and we must look upon him as a
well-nigh finished linesman.
Meadows, of Auburn, is not quite as !
heavy a tnan as 1 would like to have at
tackle, and it might be beter were he
shifted to guard, leaving Barker to !'
come out to the tackle’s place. Either I i
of them Is quite qnick' enough for the ; (
place. Meadows' forte is In accurate h
diagnosing of the play, coupled with .
simultaneous, m tion on the judgment 11
He has a tine knack of knifing through I,
ami nailing the runner in ills tracks ,
with a clean, low tackle. Altogether, ,
ht appears to be the best lineman Au- ,
burn has this Beason, and that Is say- ,
Ing much when we reflect what a high- (
grade lot of forwards these are Mead- ,
ows will do evry well. ,
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Sewanee and Vandy
Get the End Berths.
P't 'R the end positions there are quite 1
a number of men who stand out
well above the average. These include! 1
I Robinson, of Auburn; Conklin, of Geor-1 1
gla; Vandegraaf. of Alabama. Pounds. ]
of Florida; Glllem. of Sewanee, and KI
Brown, of Vanderbilt.
For defensive purposes I would not I
ask a better man than Robinson. He I
has weight ami strength and is excep- i
tionaliy clear-headed on sizing up a i
play. And he plants himself in such a
manne as to make it a mighty hard i
thing to got him off his feet This
makes it possible for him to handle a
heap of titerference and “till get the I
runmrhims. f
Conklin, of Georgia, is mucn the same
style of player, though lie comes In!
| faster to smash interference (probably:
1 only a difference (1 f detail in team sys-|
■item). But his judgment i.- almost i
equally Infallible, and In- is on. of the I
| surest tackle s to be found anywhere ]
Pounds, of Florida, is .is shifty, nifty |
ami altog< the: brilliant a player fo'
his inches am! ounces as could be I
, found. r; two downs do, - he play
his position the same, but uses his
judgment as to just where and how to
play each attack by Itself. He is ex-
1 eeedlngly clever tn handling forward
■ passes and lie can spill more ends go
' ing down field under punts than any
other man I have seen this season H
; is too light for consideration in the
I present connection, but deserves, none
the less, u world of praise
Glllem. ot Sewanee, is om of our
best players. He has th. necessary
■ weight, speed ami • xpciienc.. He has
the fo..tbalh s fighting instinct He is
a ■t ' n 11. forward passer, am’ om of
■ im.st I- illiant punters ,n Dixie. He
>- a tim -ang? b.iil.i ami is able to
>,.u! town optH.nent-' '.invar. passe
AND NEWS.SATURDAY. N()\ EMBER 30.
HEISMANS 1911 TEAM
Player Position "College
Morgan Center Vanderbilt
Peacockßight Guard Georgia
MetzgerLeft Guard Vanderbilt
Lambßight Tackle. .... Auburn
Freeland Left Tackle V anderbilt
V alton Right End Mississippi
G orceLeft End Tech
Hardageßight Half Vanderbilt
McWhorterLeft Half Georgia
Davis Fullback Auburn
Morrison Quarterback Vanderbilt
in quantities. There can be little doubt
of Gillem's right to a place. On de
fense i would play him at side-back.
"Nuek" Brown, of Vanderbilt, has
been toiling away now for several years
at that end position, and has always
put out ,i jam-up good game. Last
year he was almost ripe enough, and
this year he is so beyond all doubt.
Brown is not a big man. yet he is big
enough, and he is as tough as wire
nails. He can smash any old kind of
interference, can get down field like an
aeroplane, and then tackle for keeps.
He handles with acctit.icy and dispatch
all kinds of forward passes, and he is
almost immune to injuries Then, too.
Brown has been playing with a high
grade team against other classy teams
for years now, and he knows the game
las few Southern players ever get to do.
, Then are few surer men for places on
lour team than Brown.
Quarterback Job
Is a Conundrum.
J.N attempting the solution of the
' quarto -back problem, h difficulty of
| an entirely different nature from that
I of picking out star players confronts
Ins. i refer to th. different systems of
i play and tin different ways that teams
> use their qaurters nowadays. Formerly
| the question of how the quarter handled
I his ball from snapper to runner entered
! very largely in the determination of his
! fitness sot premier honors. Bui more
and i:or. each year we see teams dis
i pensing w ith the intermediate handling
iof ip. ball by the quarter, and on .some
i teams Tech and Auburn, for instance
the quarterback scare. ',y ever relays
the snap.
On such Gams there is little or no
real distinction between the quarter
and the fullback, or any other of the
backs. To be sure, they have to be
ailed something in the official lineup,
and so tlte coach of such a team picks
out some one man and calls him tlte
quarterback; sometimes, perhaps, be
cause he is the man who gives the
signals, or because h- plays rear guard
on the defense, or because another back
does most of the line bucking (for
which reason the other man is denomi
nated fullback). which necessarily
leave- the title of qua o r for the first
man.
I I vaiiteu mor. niei. om. aingi
t-vngtn in ' e ""-kti..-Id, t gethei with
heavy interfering, I would probably
choose Major, of Auburn, for my quar
ter. If I wanted a man who could run
the ends, punt th.- ball and return punts.
1 would not overlook McDonald, of
Tech. If I wanted a .-killful handler of
the ball from snapper io runner, and
om* who was a good field general, no
doubt I would choose Fletcher, of Mis
sissippi, or Cameron, of Tennessee. And
so it goes.
I’heii there i; Tolley, of S -wane. , who
certainly handles the center's -naps
nicely, and who runs himself with the
ball tn good form and with tin. drive.
Still he is not a very fast man, else
Loeb, of Tech, would never have tun
him down and caught him from behind.
Neither is he a sure man on catching
punts,,notwithstanding lie caught them
all in the Tech game; in other games
ihe missed a number of them. But Tol
ley makes a very satis,factory - quarter
i back and one who stands out from the
i general field on his season’s work. I
i find it hard to turn him down—very
' i hard.
Curlin Best Drop Kicker.
Vanderbilt’s quarters are all pretty
1 fair men. but none of them s, er.i to
have given entile satisfaction to th.-ir
coaches, Curlin is th. best drop kick
er of tile year among tlte quarterbacks,
although he seems to be somewhat be
hind his last year’s form.
('ameron, of Tennessee, and McDon
ald, of Tech, ate brilliant for first-year
men ('ameron has hml but one drop
ped punt the entile season He is a
cool and self-sontld.-nt player, liamlle
tlw ball in Jam-up style, ami runs 'ike
: an antelope. He is only nineteen, and
is sure to make ids mark. Next year
' he will bear watching for ull-Southeru
honors.
' McDonald, of Tech, is one of the sttr
‘ prises of the year. Along with .Major.
Reulle and Glllem, he helps to eompos.
the South's best quartet of punters: in
' my opinion, he is quite as good here as
any of the others. He weighs but 150.
and how he can make the ground he
does around the end and through the
line when that line is the hast idt
broken iff. Is and has been one of the
mysteri-s of the season. H< can catch
almost anything evei let out of the
cage in the shape of i forward pass,
and his blocking is pa- t xcellem e. His
i tackling is not clean, confident and
aggressive as it will oe a yeai from
! now. Also, he has some tendency to
I drop th> ball, which be will doubtless
i overcome.
Homing back to those first, mentioned:
I Fletcher is beyond all cavil th« very
I best quarterback of the y ear. His play
deserves half a column. But right at
the tail end of tile season Fletcher was
disqualified; so what’s the use in say
ing a word about it'.’ If he is ineligi
ble to play on his own varsity team,
lie is equally ineligible for my all-S. L
I Os the remainder who have figured in
the various coaches’ line-ups as quar
terbacks the next best man is probably
Majors, of Auburn, and he is a tip-top
player. But is he really any more of a
. quarterback in his team’s system of
play than any other man in the back
field? He is not called upon to relay
ihe snap and he does not play rear
guard In receiving opponents’ punts.
In only om* usual respect is he a quar
; terback for his team, and that is In
'■ailing the signals. But I can not give
Majors much when it comes to his sig
naling ability, and so I can not select
him for an all-Southern quarter on the
i strength of this point.
Sikes Is Heisman's Quarter.
t But after eliminating Fletcher and
. Majors there are no quarters left that
! 1 consider quite worthy to uphold the
> standard of the rest of the team, so
what are we to do? It happens that
I there is playing this year one man of
superlative backfield excellence who
, would make an ideal quarterback—one
, almost as good as Kay Morrison. That
3 man is Sikes, of Vanderbilt, He has
| been playing fullback and halfback all
season, and he plays one of these as
( well as the other. It is idle to say he
could not play as good a quarter as
, Majors, for, as I have pointed out, Ma
jljors. in fact, plays no more quarter
back under Auburn's system of play
than does Sikes in Vanderbilt’s system.
What can Sikes do? He is one of
the very fastest runners of the year.
He is the best blocker I have ever seen
lin the South. His tackling Is the
I fiercest, keenest and surest of any man
[South this season. Next to Reulle and
along with Ressijac, he is the beat
* bucket - dow n here. He can run the ends
' almost as well as Hardage, and cer
r tainly quite as well as any other man
-of th-. \ *a His weight of 162 pounds
i, won d b. lust the thing for a quarter-
- back, wiille his spirit would keep any
team In the world going at top sj.eed
- all the time. His general play reminds
r me more of Morrison’s than any man I
- Imv. seen this year, and he is certainly
a the best rounded football player that
s has shown this campaign.
e And that's why I put Sikes at quar
,i terback. And If he couldn’t call signals
r satisfactorily (though I believe h<
i, could), I have no doubt that Hardage
could, so what’s the difference'.’
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Fullback Goes
r , To Miss. A. & M.
s ZAI'TSIDE of Auburn no college tn thr
' Soutli seems to have the luck or
e the ability, whichever it takes, to turn
’ out fullbacks. True Vanderbilt put out
i in Mani. : tile very best the South has
e developed, but he ami Edgerton let the
It ('ominodoivs out.
■ Auburn lias recorded the names ot
‘ Shafer Lay Lacy, I'oy, Ridding, tv.e
s i’entons. Stakes. Streit and Davis. And
J now they come along with still another
> who is worthy to minfle ills boaea with
I
Honorably
Mentioned
By Heisman
~F~
On account of lack of space, Mt.
, Heisman was unable to discuss a num
ber of players. Following are those
i that he also wishes to boost for their
» good playing:
Player College
CENTER
StoneySewanee
GUARDS
Hicks Alabama
Black Tulane
L-/ucas Georgia
Nleans T ech
TACKLES
Woodward’Tulane
NlyersMississippi
Lamb Auburn
KelieyTennessee
ENDS
BowdenGeorgia
Long Alabama
QUARTERS
Marks Tulane
RobinsX anderbilt
Martin Citadel
Paddock Georgia
HALFBACKS
Newell Auburn
Arnold Auburn
HaxtonMississippi
Evans iulane
FolgerCitadel
his illustrious predecessors. Ressijac
is a very fine plunger, Indeed. He gets
started quickly and with great snap;
he plunges in as though sure the op-
I posing line is nothing but a feathe; bed.
J and he keeps on ramming till something
igives ev. ry time. Ressijae’s defense is
also excellent. Really, though, he ought
! to weigh a little more for an all-teouth
ern fullback.
Webb, of Clemson, is a splendid full
' back. He weighs only- 165, but Is tall
t and rangy, and slashes in with great
> abandon. He is undoubtedly one of the
- best players Clemson has ever devel-
- oped. As yet I would not say that be
, ; had had sufficient experience to be put
. | on the all-S. I. A. A.
Probably the best man for the place
, is Reulle. of Mississippi A. &- VI. This
. man weighs 192 and ie very fast, in-
• deed, for his weight. He has the ideal
, build for a fullback. In addition to
i these natural advantages, he is a tip
s top forward passer, and as good a kick
er as either (lillem. Majors or McDon-
f aid. And if It’s bucking you demand of
r a fullback, why, here’s the man eau
give it to you. There is little doubt
that with bis weight and speed com
-1 bined he gets up more momentum than
„ any other man playing the game down
here this fall.
t So 1 give the place to Reulle, with a
„ regret that 1 haven’t another one for
Ressijac as well.
Norman, of Mercer, deserves a very
j honorable mention.
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t
3 I Halfbacks a
> Hard Job.
1 i I HAVE reserved my nardest task fc
f * the last, and i know this chapt.
5 of my mirthless monogram is going to
e trace even more wrinkles in my brow
f than any of the others.
c Ot superior halfbacks this year tlier.
1 is no end. Let’s see: Hardage, Sikes
8 and Collins, of Vanderbilt; Sheldon, of
e Sewanee; Fonde. of Tennessee; Wil
-8 Hams, of Mississippi A. & M.; Vande
' graaf, of Alabama; Evans, of L S. I’.;
" Haxton, of Mississippi; Newell, of Au
F burn; Cook, of Tech; Taylor, of Flor
1 Ida; McWhorter, ot Georgia, and Fol
ger, of Citadel. That’s a baker's dozen
'■ or more right there, and lots of folk.--
n are going to be mat' that I do not
e mention still others.
n Now, the only way I see to approach
tl this task is not to stop to put down
t every last little thing that every one of
s these men does well—no matter how
• much I should like to do this. Tin
n point is that 1 have to select two men,
s on each of whom, after selection. I
- may be able to spare ten words. But
y the rest I must eliminate quickly.
il Well, Sheldon is in his first yea; in
the S. I. A. A That’s no crime; but
1 it's a vi'.'l weakness when we retnem
y her so many of the other good ones
t that have been serving two or three or
four years. Some don’t think much of
. Sheldon, anyway; but I differ from
them radically. Sheldon Is a born foot
baller. ami a sure comer for All-South
ern honors Put a pin in this.
e Fonde is a fine-spirited player. He
has li.ol his chances spoiled by injuries.
Williams is great with the ball, but
too weak on defense.
Vandegraaf Finished Player.
Vandegraaf is a very finished football
play er and has the heart of a Hon. He
p is too nm as yet to th* position, hav
ing played end nearly all of his career.
T Hats off to this fellow, boys!
n Evans is a fairly satisfactory half
it back, but he has too many moments ot
s let-up in his play. He deserves, how
ever. more words of praise than 1 have
p room for.
<’ook is a very graceful and finished
it halfback. No one can •x< el him in
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