Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one considers the recent post-season football games on the Pacific coast and then pages back in the papers, magazines and journals of every kind and description and looks at the prevailing "All-American" selections picked by each football critic and his able understudy one realizes the utter folly of trying to pick eleven men who supposedly rank above all other American football players in their respective positions. In the New Year's Day clash for instance Pittsburgh had four men, Uansa and Parkinson, backs, Donchess, end, and Montgomery, guard, who had been prominently named for All-American berths...
...futility of trying to pick a national championship team is also shown by the announcement of the recent Erskine Award. Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Purdue were the only teams that figured in the final balloting with the three of them finishing in the order named. Here the combined opinions of several hundred sports writers were taken into consideration and even then both Stanford and Southern California failed to figure in the final rating. Southern California the day before the award was made known gave Pittsburgh the worst heating an Eastern team was taken in the Rose Bowl since the Annual...