The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . ss. Of ends, and quarters, and backs, particularly of backs,there was an embarrassment of riches. Veeder, Linn, Greene, Folwell,Spencer, Douglass, Morse. Mount Pleasant, Harlan. Roome. Foster,Smith, Hubbard—plenty of good material in that list, while Ingramdeserves an especial word for getting over West Points line entirelyunaided. Yale was the only team to give adequate protection to theman receiving a forward pass. Of quarter-backs Norton (Annapolis)certainly stan
The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . ss. Of ends, and quarters, and backs, particularly of backs,there was an embarrassment of riches. Veeder, Linn, Greene, Folwell,Spencer, Douglass, Morse. Mount Pleasant, Harlan. Roome. Foster,Smith, Hubbard—plenty of good material in that list, while Ingramdeserves an especial word for getting over West Points line entirelyunaided. Yale was the only team to give adequate protection to theman receiving a forward pass. Of quarter-backs Norton (Annapolis)certainly stands next to the leading two, but both Libby (Carlisle)and Lawrence (Pennsylvania), should be mentioned. At end Hoag- land (Princeton) only gives place to Alcott. because of the lattersopportunity, of which he took such skillful advantage, and there areseveral others that deserve high credit—Scarlett (Pennsylvania), I Dague (Navy), Starr (Harvard), Van Orman (Cornell). Exendine(Carlisle). Other men who earned the right to special mentionwere: Cooney (Princeton), Kersberg (Harvard), McAvoy (Lafayette), ! Dillon (Carlisle).. SPALDINGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 21 Ranking of 1906 Teams. 1. Yale. 5. Carlisle. 9. West Point. 2. Princeton. 6. Pennsylvania. 10. Swarthmore. 3. Harvard. 7. Cornell. 11. Minnesota. 4. Annapolis. 8. Brown. 12. Chicago. This ranking is not based only on comparative scores, but onstyle of play, conditions under which games were contested, relativeimportance of games on the schedule—especially with regard to eachteams big game, for which it was particularly trained—as wellas the seasons all-round record of the elevens under discussion. Myinterest in the study is its object lesson on comparative Foot Balldevelopment throughout the country. EASTERN NEWSPAPER SELECTIONS. New York Sun. New Yo7-k Evening Snn. Ends Forbes, Yale; Wister, Prin. Wister, Prin.; Levene, Penn. Tackles Biglow, Yale; Draper, Penn. Osborne, Har.; Biglow, Yale. Guards Thompson, Cornell
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