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I I Champs for All Time continued smart, and courageous. They could run, pass, block, punt, tackle, and handle the ball. With Zupke's team, deception was standard. At one time or another he used the "Flea-Flicker," "Blue Eagle," "Corkscrew," "Sidewinder," "Whirligig," "Razzle-Dazzle," "Whoa Back" and "FlyingTrapeze" as plays. None were ordi- nary, and Zupke gave them fancy names to make them easier for his players to remember. Zupke arrived at Illinois in 1913, and it took him only two years to develop an extraordinary team that some rated as the finest ever to come out of Champaign, superior even to the great 1923 squad featuring Red Grange. It was the first of seven Big Ten championships won by Zupke, and featured All-American Harold Pogue at halfback, ends Perry Graves and E.K. Squier, center Jack Watson, and quarterback George (Potsy) Clark. "The basic attack of the 1914 team was the balanced formation known as the "I" forma- tion," Zupke said. "It was the only team in all my career that had the necessary talent for that formation. Its decisive victories and the fact that it was my first great college team make me think it was the greatest of all my teams."

ery as ever was assembled, 11 wrote a sports- writer from the New York Journal. "Warner's pupils have time and time again been termed the greatest squad of interferers of the age. The long sweeping end runs in which Pittsburgh excels are nothing more nor less than a display ... of a thorough course of instruction in the rudiments of the game . . from one of the greatest masterminds of football." Of the five University of California "Won- der Teams" from 1920-24, Jed by former Penn player and coach Andy Smith, the first one in 1920 may have shined the brightest. "As long as football is played on the west coast," wrote L.H. Gregory, a well-known sportswriter of the day, "Andy Smith and his California 'Wonder Teams' will live in gridiron tradition ... All five of those teams were great aggregations, (but the) 1920 team had just a lit- tle more behind it, a little more inspiration, a little more dash than any of its successors." Andy Cranmer, a guard on several of the Wonder Teams, agreed. "What made the 1920 team sogreat," he said, "was the fire and inspiration of the youth, plus fine material and the most wonderful collective

1934's edition of the Alabama Crimson Tide rolled to an un- defeated season and a Rose Bowl victory over Stanford.

team spirit I believe ever existed on a football team ... We were one for all and all for one. 11 Three years later Yale fielded one of its greatest teams-perhaps its best. Coached by T.A.D. Jones, Yale was captained by "Memphis Bill" Mallory and defeated Army 31-10, Prince- ton 27-0, and, in a heavy downpour on a slimy field, topped Harvard 13-0 to climax an unbeat- en and untied campaign. Fullback Mal Stevens, tackle Century Milstead, and end Dick Luman joined Mallory on the All-America listings. "A gold and blue symphony in leather," is continued

Over the years Pitt has had many great teams, but one that stands apart from the rest was Pop Warner's unbeaten 1916 squad, which blistered its eight opponents by the combined scored of 255-25 and was crowned national champion. Nine of its starting 11 players were All-Americans during their careers, including five selected in 1916: center Bob Peck, quarter- back Jimmy DeHart, end Pat Herron, guard Jock Sutherland and halfback Andy Hastings. "The great Pittsburgh gridiron machine is probably as smooth a running piece of machin-