Sport: ALL-AMERICA, 1957

This year, as usual, the sideline critics who pick All-America football teams looked back over the season, squabbled over local favorites, but in the end agreed on enough names to field an unusually fine team. The consensus, notable for its light list of West and East Coasters:

Height Weight

(E) Jim Phillips 6 ft. 2 in. 205 Auburn

(T) Alex Karras 6 ft. 2 in. 233 Iowa

(G) Bill Krisher 6 ft. l in. 216 Oklahoma

(C) Dan Currie 6 ft. 3 in. 225 Michigan State

(G) Al Ecuyer 5 ft. 10 in. 195 Notre Dame

(T) Lou Michaels 6 ft. 2 in. 236 Kentucky

(E)...

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