All-American

Over the round, bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows:

Guards: Henry Wisniewski (Fordham) Bert Metzger (Notre Dame)

Ends: Frank Baker (Northwestern) Gerald Dalrymple (Tulane)

Tackles: Fred Sington (Alabama) John Price (Army)

Centre: Ben Ticknor (Harvard)

Quarterback: Frank Carideo (Notre Dame)

Halfbacks: Marchmont Schwartz (Notre Dame) Ernest Pinckert (Southern California)

Fullback: Leonard Macaluso (Colgate)

Easteners were quick to observe that only one player of their Big Three-- Yale, Princeton, Harvard--made the sportswriters' 1930 All-American. Remembering great years in the past, when Walter Camp's All-American consisted almost wholly of Big Three players, the East was interested in a reverie issued to the press last week by Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's famed coach for ten years who three years ago retired to his New Haven coal business. Tad Jones remembers 26 years of Big Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself in 1907. He was a hard-working but colorless coach; he originated few plays though he had the reputation of having invented some which he borrowed from his smart brother Howard J., who coaches University of Southern California. "Get rid of Jones-- he's a boy scout leader," said Yale's Old Guard when the team was losing, annoyed because Jones regarded as unethical the deceptions practiced in other colleges to produce winning teams. With William Roper, equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other's teams. In 1925 and 1926 when he had bad teams, Jones refused to quit. He held on till 1927, when his team beat Brown, Army, Dartmouth, Maryland, Princeton, Harvard. Yale football graduates remember with a smile one of his characteristic dressing room before-the-game orations: "You stand by me. and I'll stand by you. If we win we win, if we lose we lose."

Last week he named an All-Big-Three team based on 26 years football experience. He chose Tom Shevlin (Y) and Tack Hardwick (H), ends; Ham (Congressman) Fish (H) and Century Milstead (Y), tackles; Stan Pennock (H) and Fiske Brown (H), guards; Winslow Lovejoy (Y), centre; Lyle Richeson (Y). quarterback; Marvin Stevens (Y) and Eddie Mahan (H), halfbacks; Bill Mallory (Y), fullback.

"I played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others. . . ."

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