Sport: All-Americans

Smiling faces, brawny forms in dinner coats were seen in the Della Robbia room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, Manhattan, where an All-American team met for the first time in the history of football. The team was picked, the players invited, the dinner given, by the New York Sun. Sports writers of other papers were surly; they did not like to mention the Sun's dinner for the Sun had stolen a march on them. The dinner and the Sun's choice of players may become a football tradition, they knew, and moaned their vanished opportunity. Meanwhile...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!