The football season is ended, more or less, except for Saturday's war games at Philadelphia, and it is all over but the "alls." The Associated Press and similar august bodies, with their usual looks at the press releases and little more, are busy compiling imaginary super-teams on levels from the Ivy League all the way up to the nation as a whole. The CRIMSON, never one to shun exercises in futility, hereby presents its version of the littlest of the Little All-Americans, the All-Ivy football team.
Charlie Loftus down in New Haven has called for the deification of Yale's starting eleven, but placing seven of the immortals on the first two all-Ivy teams seems enough reward for what we all know was Yale's first unbeaten season since 1923. If Loftus wants to erect solid gold statues of all eleven starters in the Gothie wastes of Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, that is his business.
To dispose of the Yalies first, tackle Mike Pyie, guard Ben Balme, and full-back Bob Blanchard make the CRIME's first eleven. A case can, and no doubt will, be made for Tom Singleton as first-string quarterback, but he started slowly and can't be picked over Dartmouth's Jack Kinderdine, who set a new Ivy passing record. Anyway, three Yalies are enough for any team, so Singleton goes to the second eleven, along with teammates Hardy Will (center), John Hutcherson (end), and Ken Wolfe (halfback).
Kinderdine is joined on the first team by fellow Indians Ken DeHaven (center) and Al Rozycki (halfback), Princeton's Hugh Scott rounds out the first backfield, while his twin Jack Sullivan joins Singleton, Wolfe, and Brown's fullback Ray Barry in the second unit.
That leaves some line slots, and here at last Harvard comes in. Not at the ends, where Bob Federspiel of Columbia and Dick Laine of Brown make the first pair, with Hutcherson and Jon Greenwalt of Penn the second team. But the Crimson's Bob Pillsbury is a first-string tackle, with Eric Nelson on the second team, and Terry Lenzner and Bill Swinford are the second-string guards.
Rounding out the squad are guard Warren Sundstrom of Cornell (first team), and tackle Bruce Cummings of Penn (second team).
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