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...high-grade football was limited to a few large Eastern colleges and it was possible to see all the leading teams is action. Now it is impossible for one man to see half of them. It is unfair to pick a man for an All-American team when the picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even if you expert does see a man play once, he may get a wrong impression...
...Chicago Tribune as a picker of statesmen...
...pickers of St. Louis have formed an association, one of the avowed objects of which is "to prove to the world that a rag-picker can be a gentleman...