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COACH HEISMAN PICKS ALL-SOUTHERN ELEVEN
All-Star Eleven Strongest Selected in Many
Years, Expert Declares—lLeadin g Players Are
Bigger, Faster and Better Coached Than in the
Old Days—Strupper Called the Bast Halfback
Ever Seen in the South.
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HE above team represents the
T very best the writer can do in
the way of attempting the se
lection of an All-Southern football
team for the season of 1916. Tt does
mot Include consideration of players
on teams not in the association, such
a 8 North Carolina, Washington and
Tee, Virginia, V. P. 1, V. M. I, Da
widson and other prominent Southern
teams, but as the association ineludes
a membership ot colleges it will be
ween that tha job covers plenty of
territory,
For elght positions the selection of
the seeming best players offers little
difficulty, but for one guard, one half
and one end 1 have had a world of
trouble, and probably other critics and
choosers will encounter the same
stumbliing blocks. '
“Pup”™ Phillips Gets Center.
Suppose we tackle this team at cen
ter, the keystone position.
There is no dearth of good centers
tn the South this year, and probably
the time has gone by whan there ever
will he again. The dest of the Yot are
Phillipe, of Tech; Robinson, of An
burn; Garmany, of Georgia; Maynor,
of Alabama: Hamilton, of Vanderbilt,
and Spurfock, of Mississippi A. and M.
Among these T have small hesita
tion In selooting Phillips as the best
of the bunch, all things considered.
Robinson is a tip-top center, but he
has not the weight and physical pow
er of Phillips. Then, too, he has been
hampered this season somewhat by‘
attacks of malaria, which must lnc]ine‘
us away from him as our I'ne pivot.
J wicsh T had room to say here the
many good things I think of Robinson’s ‘
play.
Garmany has the weight and
strength, but not the experiencs at the
position, nor yet the speed of Phillips.
But Garmany also has had the mis
fortune to have his prospects cut into
by things quite beyond his control—an
mnfortunate accident which has kept
him out of half the season’s play. For
this reason alone he would have to be
sot aslde, good player though he is.
Garmany has a fine fighting spirit and
is a good sportsman in the bargain.
He Adeserves as much general credit
for his season’s efforts as any player
of the year ,anl it gives me more gen
uine regret to have to leave him out—
and solely on account of his Injuries—
than any other that I have felt com
pelled to set aside.
Those who have seen Phillips play
in any one game this season proba
bly need not be told why he is chosen,
but for the benefit of those who have
not had that pleasure—or displeasure,
as the case may be—l will state that
he weighs 190 stripped, that he is over
6 feet tall, that he is as accurate and
dependable a snapper of all kinds of
passes as I ever saw, that he backs un!
a line on defense In almost faultless
fashion, being one of the very best
and hardest tacklers to be found any
where, that he never gets signals
messed up, that he opens up splendid.
1y on offense, and that he is very fast
for a big man and gets all over the
fleM. In addition to these, he adds
the virtue of heing one of the best
catchers of passes of any line player
in the South, and he has a cool, evan
temperament that helps to steady a
team, |
Phillips has this season gone up
Agalnst such extra fine ocenters as
Captain Tandy, of North Caroline, and
Perottl, of Washington and Lee, and 1t
was the consensus of opinion that he
rather outplayed those two cracks. ‘
¢« BSpuriock, of the Mississippl Aggies,
has played in much better form at'
center than heretofore, and as cap
tain bis work has been an inspiration
10 Ms team the whole season. He has
all the good qualities that go to the
making of an A No. 1 football player.
With the axception of Phillips, proba.
bly no center of the year surpasses
him in all-rgund play.
Tech and Vandy Get a Guard.
Here ls one of the worst places in
my road-—the selection of two guards
whose names will give satisfaction to
& majority of football fans
The more prominent ones have been
Campbell, of Auburn: Rosenthal, of
Tulane: Lang and Alexander, of Teeh;
14pscomb and Williams, of Vanderbilt,
and Lowe, of Tennessece,
You can ponder them all, shake
them up and mhm again, con
wider and reco , and when vou
have done 1 believe J“ will agree
with me thet Lang, Tech, s por-
By J. W. Heisman,
Coach of Tech Team.
haps first choice tn the crop. There
is nothing brilllant about Lang, but
he's fust the steadiest, most depend
able, plodding, old day-in-and-day
out war horse I know of anywhere, He
never ge*s hurt, never misses a prac
tice £ {immage—to say nothing of a
matca game—always charges like an
eight-cylindered automobile, gets out
in end interference a bit better than
any guard I have seen this year, goes
dewn under punts not infrequently as
though he were playing end, and he's
always “r'arin’” to go. He trains con
scientiously and is tractable and
teachable. He has played four years
on the Tech varsity and he has never
played anything but guard, and how
he does know that position! He is 6
feet tall and he weighs 190 stripped.
Let’s let him have it—what say?
Last year Williams, of Vanderbilt,
played a wonderful game at center.
This year he has been shifted out to
the guard's position, and there he has
bogn putting up an equally fine brand
of football as he 4id In 1915, Wil
liams is ideally built for a guard, be
ing tall, very heavy, very strong, very
willing, a ferocious tackler and a
shifty man for his size. He reminds
me a lot of Phillips, of Tech, and isal
together a worthy man to satnd in
our rush line.
Lowe, of Tennessee, considering
his very light weight, which is only
172 pounds, is the most remarkable
guard of the year. How he In.nuges
to hold his own with men much
heavier than he is is a mystery. He
is a veteran of some years’' standing
and that accounts for his heady work
in some degree. Both on offense and
defense he plays the position in jam
up style and must be accounted one
of the best of the year. Land's
greater weight, experienc® and charg
ing ability, and about the same quali
ties for Willlams are all that keep
Lowe from place.
Lipscomb, of Vanderbilt, and Klock,
of ITouisiana, are also excellent
guards.
Fincher, of Tech, is the best fresh
man guard developed this year. He
will be ripe for better things and a
better place next year.
Cody and Carpenter at Tackles,
We shall hear some hollering about
this pair. And yet how can there be?
Cody may have been a bit off in
his Tennessee game, but so, appar
ently, was the whole Vanderbilt team.
And what player does not have an off
day once in a while? Take him day
in and day out and Cody Is better
than any othor Southern tackle that
can be named, unless it is Carpenter,
of Tech, and I name the latter for
the other tackle berth. Cody Is a
giant, a most willing and experienced
player, strong as the mischief on de
fense and on going down fleld under
punts. Also he runs with the ball.
Ile has the temperament for a great
ununsn; 1 chose him for a berth last
year and I see no reason in his gen
eral play this season to take it away
from him.
~ Carpenter is very much the same
)typl' of player as Cody. He I 8 an
other young giant and has all the real
muscular strength that his _appear
ance indicates. He is faster this year
than ever before, and he has /been in
splendid condition all season, playing
the entire distance in nearly every
game. He also gets down the fleld
under punts llke an end rush; and
the way he chokes up all attempts to
plerce his side of the line stamps
him as an ideal running mate to
Cody. Carpenter has been acting.
captain of the Tech team this season
whenever Johnston was not in the
game, and a better captain no team
ever had. An absolutely fearless
player himself he inspires his team
mates with all sorts of confidence,
and he gets the work out of them.
ter is also a very good forward
m He weighs 105 stripped, and
Cody welghs about the same. One
would hunt far and wide for two
better men to take care of the main
positions on either side of a line,
Time and again Carpenter has gone
through his side this year and then,
finding the runner was golng away
from glm. bas taken after .ng pulled
him down from behind before he
could reach the line of scrimmage. If
that isn't tackle play, what is?
Cooper, of L. 8 U, i» one of the
very best tackles of the year. He has
the ideal bulld for a tackle, and is
playing in his fourth year, It is very
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From left to right the players,are: Top row, ‘‘Pup’’ Phillips, center; ‘““Tommy’’ Spence, fullback. Below them is Everett Strupper, half back, while under him, to the left, is ‘‘Big Six**
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hard to fool him on a play and he
gets into the thing from start to fin
ish. With any lesser competition for
the tackie's berth than that given by
such extra good men as Carpente
and Cody he would make a place for
himself sure.
Both Whittlesey and Rogers come
in for hdnorable mention as promi
nent tackles of the year. They have
done excellent work for Alabama the
entire season. The same may be said
of Watson, of Ole Miss.
Captaln Tate, of Mississippi Col
leg, is a tackle who has loomed up
well above the average in his season’s
play.
Captain Thrash, of Georgia, has
gone through a most creditable sea
son at the tackle position and was
one of the mainstays of his team.
Mauck, of Tech, is far above the
average Southern tackle in his gen
eral play. Give him to me in sound
shape and I would about as soon
‘have him as any other tackle that
can be named down here. But the
trouble with Mauck Is his liability to
Injury. He can not be counted upon
‘to g 0 through an entire season with
out sustaining injuries that keep him
always out of a number of games,
and he has to put on S 0 many braces
that it slows him up In getting over
the fleld. Were he as immune to in-
Juries, now, as Bob Lang a place
would just have to be made for him
somewhere; for when it comes tq
stopping things on his side and open
ing up holes for his backs Mauck s
the real goods, and he's got the fight
ing qualities that count, no matter
that he isn’t losing his temper all the
time,
Alexander, of Tech, has played so
consistently good and spirited a game
at both guard and tackle the whole
season that it would be a gross in-
Justice and oversight not to take
cognizance of his play. He has be.
come & heady and most reliable line
man and would add strength to any
team. He is to be congratulated on
the way he has come out In his four
years at Tech.
Carpenter, of Miss, A. & M™is a
tackle whose work stamps him, nlon.‘
with Cooper, as a player deserving to
rank only below Cody and Tech's Car- |
penter. He ls a flery player, possess. ‘
ed of immense strength, splendidly
proportionad, and he wades In for
miore all the time, as an ideal phyvr}
should. It s with more than one.
sigh of regret that I look over the
eleven berths at our disposal and.
find I have none left for him. ‘
Wynne, of Auburn, Is another u\klm
who stood n good chance of coming
in for extended consideration when
the time should come around for this
All-Southern m-m* exercise. But he
met with A most unYortunate accident
which has kept him out of too many
of his team’'s ’l‘:rorum gamoes.
Wynne is undou ly & splendie
player.
Patten, of Missieslppl A. & M., i»
& line player of no menn pretensions,
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, DECEMBER S - 1916,
In 1914 and 1915 he played guard,
but this year he is working out at
tackle, and here he has put up a
game that has more than satisfled his
coaches and friends all season.
It's not an off-hand job to pick our
two best ends. Had Jim Senter not
been laid low early In the season I
do not doubt he would hava come In
for a repetition of his 1915 fame; but
his misfortune can not be permitted
to count against our All-Southern
make-up, and so he must be dls
missed from consideration.
It Ducote had been playeq at an
end on the Auburn team all fall it is
possible he would have to be ghosen
by now, for he was certainly playing
the position nicely early in the sea
son.
Reese, of the Miss. Aggles, is a real
good man; but he is a freshman, al
beit showing rather more than a
freshman's usual experience and abil
ity to size up plays. He gets into
them like a flash and diagnoses plays
with the head of a veteran.. And he
breaks up that Interference stuff “to
a fare-you-well.” Still, I think it best
to set him aside and let him ma
ture another year,
In taking over G. Vowell, captain
of Tennesseec, for one end we can
hardly make a mistake. This chap
is very big for an end, welghing 190
pounds, very fast and strong and
willing. He knows the game as few
‘ends get to know 1t In the South, and
‘he can do most everything the game
calls for and do it well. He gets
‘down the fleld llke an express traln,
\ho runs hard and well with the ball,
he dams things up on the defense all
the time, and he catches most any
thing In the shape of a forward pass.
One end Is universally conceded to
him, and he is ripe for it,
The other end lles between Captain
Edmunds, of Sewanee, Wolfe of Ten
nessee, Cohen of Vanderbilt and Steed
and Ducote of Auburn. Cohen is a
pretty good end, but he is rather be
low the standard of play that he set
for himself in 1916 and is this year
hardly up to requirements, though
that he is a fine player and a recelver
of forward passes par excellence no
ones will dfny.
Captain Morton, of Alabama, s an
end who ranks among the season's
first five. He has great speed and is
not afrald to turn it loose. Impres.
sive s no word for the way he gels
down flald under punts, while his
tackling is grand. His light welght
counts heavily against him.
Steed and Ducote | consider hetter
all-around football players than any
of the others now under digcussion.
Neither of them has played the end
position regularly all season, but both |
of them have piayed thers in some
gnmes, [ prefer Ducote. He has
great weight, fine speed, runs magnifi
cently with the ball, and is the best
long distance fleld goal kicker of the
year. He is & fine tackler, a hard
worker and has enough experience,
He is one of the very best all-around
players In the Bouth, and were he
kept at end steadily 1 believe he
would make about ax good an end as
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Quintet
of Tech
players, who
get All-
Southern
honors.
we have ever had down this way.
Tate, of Georgia, comes in for hon
orable mention.
Plenty of Good Quarterbacks.
Though there are lots of goo dquar -
etrbacks out this year, I do not sup
pose there will be much debate over
this question. The work of the Com
modore quarter has been s 0 very sen
sational the whole season that he
must again be placed on the All-
Southern. .
Curry is deservedly nicknamed
“Rabbit,” but he does much more in
a football game than run with the
ball. He has now played his fourth
season of Intercollegiate ball, and he
has learned the game from A to Iz
zard. He is a fair punter and a cork
ing good forward passer; his inter
ference is wonderful for so small a
man, and the same may truthfully be
sald of his defensive play. Time and
again, however, he has won his team'’s
game almost singlehanded by his
marvelous running and dodging, and
it Is mainly because of his consist
ently startling offensive work that
we have to have him,
Of the remaining quarters of the
year 1 belleve I had rather have Mor
rison, of Tech, than any other. He
has the weight, head, tackling ability,
passing ability, & a falr blocker and
a falr punter—an all-around valuable
football player. An Injury to his
ankle, sustained while playing base
‘ball the past summer, has at times
‘hampered his speed and general game
& bit this year, but he is an A No. 1
quarter for all that, and has been a
great help to his team,
Hairston, of Auburn, Is another
quarter of the Morrison type, and
‘he also has played very superior foot
ball. Neither of them is quite fast
enough on his feet to hold his own as
he should with the rest of the back
iflam. and that is my main reason for
‘wotting them aside.
A. Hatcher, of Tennesses, must be
‘accounted one of the best gulnau
of the year. He punts and drop
kicks with marked success, and be has
also shown plenty of ability to run.
a team in bang-up style, |
Green, of Alnbama, has played sen
sational ball at times for a freshman,
and is evidently destined for still bet
ter things in the future,
Bobo has done yeoman work for the
Mississippl Aggies, und the warmest
felicitations are extended him by all,
Faust, of Tulane, Is a quarterback
who has come out In remarkable
fashion. :u oco;c.hnu runs time and
n against t very wstrong de
& of the Tech team for repeaisd
long gains, and his hair-ralsing
stunts against the also strong defense
of the Alabama team, have brought
him most prominently and favorably
into public notice. He has great
speed and sufficient welght to give
him tiptop drive, which makes him a
deucedly hard man to bring down.
Wortham, of Sewanee, deserves not
only an Honorable Mention but a
Special Mention as well. A few years
ago Wortham, at his 1916 stride,
would have made the All-Southern;
but the class of play for each partic
ular position has again gone ahead
this year and the new higlievels
‘Wortham has not yet quite attained.
| Baird, of Louisiana, Is a quarter
whose work this season has fre
quently attracted highly favorable at
tention. His drop-kicking is espe
clally good.
Strupper South's Premier Half.
We don’t have any difficulty what
ever about one of our halves, but the
other is a nasty problem. Let's get
rid of ‘the ecasy Jjob first, while we
ponder a little longer over the other
one.
This fellow Strupper—of course,
you all knew [ was going to u? him
~-ig Just about THE class of South
ern football this year. If there is
anything in the game he doesn't do
well his coaches haven't found it out,
after watching him on the varsity for
two season, Yes, he's slender, weigh
ing only 164 pounds and -undln‘!
about 6 feet 9 inches In helght; but,
dear man, the QUALITY of his mus-l
cles! He is the fastest man in the
entire State of Georgla on a 100-yard
dash, and he has the endurance of a
truck horse. As for grit—well, you
ought to see him run the qumor|
once In a relay and come up from 50
or more feet behind, The South has
never had a better dodger and
broken-field runner, and when It is
sheer running that is called for his
speed is well-night bilnding.
And do you Imagine he can't do
anything but run with the ball? Then
Bo to A game some time and watch
him tackle, If he gets an opportunity;
watch him block for the other haif
back; watch him punt, forward puss,
catch punts—and all the rest. He
looks to me now as the equal of the
best half the 8. L A. A, may yet have
produced, and In a couple of more
years he should be the best. He Is
still but & lad-—-a frolicsome, Ingenu
ous, unspoiled zounnur; but he has
the heart and brains of a MAN, Ie
is the Crown Prince of halfbacks.
It's the toughest K:n of this job
this year to pick t best running
mate for Strupper. There are quite
& number of other first-rate half
backs. but which of these is the best
is the point on which the writer has
his doubts, and plenty of them. One
of the hest is undoubtedly Floyd, of
Vanderblit. He has both weight and
speed, and he brings the ball on with
a terrible rush. Floyd is a good, all
round football player and there is
no discounting him in most any de
partment of the game.
Flannagan, of L. 8. U, is but a
freshman, but he is one of the most
sensational halves of the years, being
possessed of rare speed and immense
drive, despite the fact that he weighs
but 145 pounds. He Is an excellent
blocker and a good punter, and plays
about as good A game at quarter as
at half. His light welght and youth
are against him this year yet.
Anderson, of Misslssippi College,
must be highly commended for his
great ability as a broken-flield run
ner.
Reynolds, of Georgia, has won his
spurs this season, and has done much
more than usually falls to the share
of a first-year player. He has groeat
‘wpeed and is absolutely fearless. Much
deserved praised can be given his for
ward passing, and, altogether, there
can be no doubting that he is a player
who will be heard from.
Captain Johnston, of Tech, when In
sound condition, is one of the very
best halfbacks to be found anywhere,
iHo has been fearfully hampered by a
knee injury received a year ago. and
has been unable to get into as much
As one-half of the season's play, which
is the main reason for rejection furth
lor consideration of him. But no half of
the year can go harder than he, none
i equals him as & blocker, few are in his
|class as a tackler, while his fighting
l""w and spirit are beyond all ques
tion,
HIIL, of Tech, is also a decidedly val
uable man -.ng a born halfback. He
has speed, dodging ability, ramming
force and great dash; besides, he can
block and tackle well, and both pass
and drop-kick. Altogether he ix one
of the best of the season,
But still we have not pleked No, 2
for the A.-8. team. 8o far as | can
son, it llen between Prendergast,
FMoyd, and Rodes, ‘of Kentucky State
Prendergast is large and fast; also
he is a good punter and an experi
enced player, Still, he does not look
to me to have been quite up to his
form of 1915; and against Tech he did
#0 very little, even by way of punting,
that T must gravely doubt his right to
a place.
Rodes, of Kentucky State, on the
other hand, has not only performed |
brilllantly all season, but on his
team's last game of the season,
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against Tennessees, he gave /a better
exhibition of his powers than at any
previous time. Rodes is said by all
who have seen him to be a very ex
ceptional halfback. He is not only &
very fast and powerful runner, but &
splendid performer in a broken fleld
as well. Add to that the fact that he
is a cracking fine punter and an
equally good forward passer, with sat
isfactory tackling ability, and you
have a pretty nice combination of tal
ent for a halfback. Had he been play«
ing on a Vanderbllt or Tech team,
where he would have been given much
better interference and team support,
there can b} little doubt that he would
have been sensation. 1 guess he's
the best man for the place. Any team
that can hold both Sewanee and Ten
nessee to tie games and that can beat
Mississippl A. and M, 13-3, must have
at least ane or two staving good foot
ball playeys on its roster,
Smrk:\&-‘., of Florida, is a halfhack
whose work stands out in bold relief
in every game he enters, while
| Crudgington, of Sewanee, is another
whose abilities no one Is disposed to
consider lightly.
Tech Gets Fullback.
Settling on a man for fullback for
our mythical team isn't so dificult an
undertaking as might be supposed.
There are rgther few first-class fulls
'thl. season, and certainly no others
are to be {fmuped with Nevilie, of
Georgia, and Spencer, of Tech. This
sounds strong, but when you try to
name them [ think you will agree with
me.
Now, 1 had rather inclined toward
Neville before the Tech-Georgia game,
For one thing, Neville was taller I.lui
heavier than Spence; he looks more
rugged and seems to be stronger.
Then, too, Spence was out of sev:
games because of injuries sustal
early in the season, and #t did
look to me as though he would recover
In time to get back to form for his
team's big games. However, the one
big game that he missed was mnot
against an assoclation team, and when
an opportunity was presented on the
same day and field for a close com
parison of the work of Neville and
Spence for their respective teams the
contrast appeared too startling to per.
mit of much argument. In this judg
ment I feel sure the University of
Georgia will concur, though that is
not detracting one iota from n:mver
valuation of Neville's desserts, Spence
simply showed such unprecedented
rush and stamina, such speed and
smashing power, such ability to gain
all alone when necessary, and with
three or four hanging onto him, that
there was left no further discussion.
He is undoubtedly much faster tham
Neville, and, in addition, he is a fine
kick-off man and a splendid drop
kicker, besides being no mean punter
and passer. His tackling and blocking
are strictly all right. Altogether he is
one of the season's best rounded-out
players. He looked against Georgia
as good as Manler ever looked down
here. What more need be sald?
Other good fullbacks of the year
have been Revington and Scott, :
Auburn; Ray, of Vanderbiit; Ring,
Tennessee, and Schwill, of Miss!issippl
A and M.
| Summary,
Taking this team in its entirety, ¥
consider it the best All-Association
tenm the 8. I. A, A. has ever turned
out. It not only will run and welgh
up with any previous u:r-gm, but
it has the age, the average elght, the
years of playing experience, the phys«
seal lmnn}t. and it has even more
drive and more c.arging power thanm
any previous ecleven,
Another factor that necessarily en.
ters into A comparison of this sort s
that the men chosen have had, on the
average, more conching than W
All-SBoutherns. The science of conoh~
Ing has progressed in the South, as
woll as the skill of the players, and
the colleges .re far better squipped
‘with coaching stafls that, as a whole,
Are more competent to impart a thor.
ough knowledge of the modern game
and its most recent and up-to-date
Improvements, than has ever been the
case hefors. Players able to make the
All-Southern nowadays have reall
been taught more and better Mfln‘
than they aver have been befors, Kee
pecially are they mors proficlent in
the matter of individual and team in
terferefice, while, of course the
ment of forward pussing has Inm
Immeasurably over what It was, .
half dozen vears ago. Also a m
knowledge of ingide foothall and the
strategy of the “ame have been ineul.
cated, though the racl: rg;l:t not be la
sight of that the splen. progress
the game In preparmtory schools in the
South has done a lot !om
the players for tha mont
typa of football on entering college
circles,
It can safely ba sald that when the
Southern spectator now views one of
the first-rate Bouthern games he ean
feel assured that he is on
players who are
close to the very m of
either the East or the West the
great Q"Q‘ gaime, Wi lh v i