19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

SILVER ANNIVERSARY: LOST AND FOUND
Sirs:
Your Silver Anniversary All-America idea (SI, Dec. 24) is a pip. I don't see how anybody, looking over that list of 25 men, could question the value of college football as a builder of men.

Jack Tibby did a splendid job on his Men of the Quarter Century, catching the color and spirit of 1931 very accurately. Being one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Lost Generation, I know.

In New York on vacation in 1931 I witnessed that famous 33-33 Yale-Dartmouth tie. In 28 years of writing sports I've seen many thrilling football games. But that one still rates among the alltime tops.
WILTON GARRISON
Sports Editor
Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, N.C.

SILVER ANNIVERSARY: SHINIEST
Sirs:
Silver Anniversary All-America is the shiniest idea in football since the invention of the forward pass.
HOWARD TEALE RHETT
Indianapolis

SILVER ANNIVERSARY: TALENT SCOUT
Sirs:
Jack Tibby did a splendid service to you and to football with his penetrating yet nostalgic article on the footballers of 25 years ago. I urge you to add Mr. Tibby to your staff.
B. F. TELLER
New York

•Thanks. See masthead.—ED.

SILVER ANNIVERSARY: ALLONS, ENFANTS..
Sirs:
Napoleon exhorted his troops by telling them that every corporal carried a marshal's baton in his knapsack. It seems that from now on a coach should tell his boys that every bench warmer carries a Cadillac in his poncho.
BILL WHITE
Montreal

SILVER ANNIVERSARY: SPECIAL ATTRACTION
Sirs:
Jack Tibby's Men of the Quarter Century is a masterpiece especially attractive to us graduates of the early 1930s.

Speaking of Ralph Dougherty of Pittsburgh, he writes, "Dougherty outcharged Notre Dame's All-America center, Tommy Yarr, that day and spilled enough other Notre Dames on the field to be elected to their all-opponents team, win All-America mentions himself." Both Dougherty and Yarr won all kinds of mention in 1931; but Grantland Rice, usually considered official after the passing of Walter Camp, named Maynard Morrison of Michigan as All-America center.

This leads to an endorsement of the suggestion by a HOTBOX interviewee (SI, Dec. 3) that All-America teams should be 33-man squads.
DANIEL W. LITSCHER
Grand Rapids