Picking any sort of "all" team is in a good many ways a foolish way to waste time, because everybody knows that just because so and so says one player is better than another it doesn't make him actually so. But just the same every one is entitled to his own opinion and in most cases it, is just as liable to be right as the next fellow's all of which means that picking mythical football teams at least isn't an injurious way to waste time.

And so Time Out introduces his all-Stadium team for the current season. The choices include Yale on the basis of that team's play in the Yale-Dartmouth contest; otherwise Florida players are the only ones whose work in the Stadium has not actually been seen.

First team: ends, Yudicky of Dartmouth and Barres of Yale; tackles, Perry of Army and Barrett of Harvard; guards, Bromberg of Dartmouth and Steele of Florida: center, Ben Ticknor of Harvard; quarterback, Marsters of Dartmouth; halfbacks, Booth of Yale and Cagle of Army; fullback, Murrel of Army.

Second team: ends, Hickok of Yale and O'Connell of Harvard; tackles, Himmelberg of Holy Cross and Barber of Dartmouth; guards, Greene of Yale and Bianchi of New Hampshire; center, Andres of Dartmouth; quarterback, Wood of Harvard halfbacks, Mays of Harvard and Ellis of Yale; fullback, Harper of Harvard.

A check-up reveals that six Harvard men, five from each Yale and Dartmouth, three from Army, and one apiece from Florida, Holy Cross, and New Hampshire are included. Probably this means that there's something wrong, but it also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases as the second team fullback berth, few would argue that the team would be a great deal weaker with Holy Cross's stalwart leader Stewart Clancy filling the job.

What a first team backfield that would be! Among them there's not a thing in the game of football that Booth, Marsters, Cagle and Murrel can't do and do it well. You couldn't do a great deal better if you had the whole country as a field to choose from.

As for the linemen there are only about two like Ticknor and Perry whose work in the Stadium has stamped them as distinctly better than their rivals. The others named, and a good many unnamed, performed well and the choice is really a toss up.

You can bet that whether these two elevens meet with universal approval or not, at least the coach who had such material would have very very little to find fault with!

Harvard's Anonymous "Swimmery"

Harvard's new indoor athletic plant continues to rise apace, yet no one knows whose munificent generosity has made possible the construction of this latest addition to the University's ever-increasing athletic facilities. Not even Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletics who has launched and conducted the campaign for the new plant, knows the whole source of the necessary funds.

The historical background of the rising University indoor athletic plant is interesting to say the least. It was back in 1914 that the Harvard undergraduates first brought to light the necessity of a gymnasium more modern than Hemenway. At that time they launched a drive for funds for a new building. Some $8,000 were collected, but the University authorities soon put a stop to such activities with the declaration that Harvard had a greater need for academic building development. The question was virtually dropped for more than a decade, but then Harvard's crying need once again broke into top-column print. It would require the services of a veritable Philo Vance to disclose the identity of those who have not only brought the problem of a new athletic building to the fore once again, but also cinched the completion of such a structure at Harvard.

Some time in 1927, a certain individual who preferred to be known to the world at large as "Anonymous Alumnus" (it is rumored that Mr. Bingham and a certain select group really do know who this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot was thickening; Mr. Bingham could not well afford to loose such generous gifts to the University and immediately asked the original "anonymous alumnus" for permission to finish $700,000 worth of the proposed plant. The request was granted. It soon became obvious, however, that it would be impractical to carry on the work only this far, owing to certain engineering difficulties. To fall down at this point would mean Harvard's loss of this much-needed building. Negotiations between the H. A. A. and the College authorities followed; it was decided to draw upon the reserve coffers of the A. A. for the construction of the plant up to the top floor. The impracticability of such action was once again brought forward and this time the Corporation voted the B. A. A. freedom to draw on its surplus for the building's completion. The total cost of construction is estimated at $1,200,000.

Ground for Harvard's indoor, athletic plant was broken on the required day and the bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters signed by these two "anonyml", however, has lead the Director of Athletics to believe that they are one and the same. Further than that, he has not been able to probe.

At any rate, Harvard's new "swimmery" will be ready for use in March, long before the specified date. The entire plant will be completed in June, according to present estimates.

Yay-ull Nnnu-thingg

You can prove anything on a basis of comparative scores. What is probably the weakest college team in the whole country, Delaware, was taken as a starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively.

Delaware is 78 points better than Yale this way; Delaware 0, Ursinus 0; Ursinus 0, Haverford 0; Haverford 28, Hamilton 0; Hamilton 6, Rochester 0; Rochester 7, Springfield 7; Springfield 7, Brown 6; Brown 13, Princeton 12; Princeton 13, Navy 13; Navy 0, Georgetown 0; Georgetown 14, N. Y. U. 0; N. Y. U. 26, Georgia 19; Georgia 15, Yale 0. And then, of course, Yale beat Army and the army won the war, so you can draw your own conclusions. BY TIME OUT