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...America team was originated in 1886 in an obscure magazine by the late Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney. In 1889 the feature was transferred to now-defunct Harper's Weekly under Mr. Camp's name, and in 1897 to Collier's. The fame of Camp maintained the standing of the feature. After his death in 1925 the selections were ably handled by Grantland Rice, but the basic idea was openly condemned by coaches and experts as too restrictive, bad for football. Partly as a protest against the notion of Collier's omniscience, partly...
Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...