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-y Yyf All-Time Picker Teamhoseh PG Ml ARNIE HERBER JOHNNY BLOOD CLARKE HINKLE TONY CANADEO CHARLIE BROCK MIKE MICHALSRE LAVVIE DILWEG CAL HUBBARD CUB BUCK BUCKETS GOLDENBERG GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE Mdoy, Sept. 27, 1957 13 Versatility 'All' Team Stamp i Grid Fans Have Good Memories Reads IXCUU) UIIICUU chosen since he retired more ithan a decade ago. Like 'Who's Who' His place in football history fingered efforts an unusual number for a center. He was- respected, too, for his keen football mind, as indicated by the fact he finished out his career as captain of Curly Lambeau's last winning team in 1947. other tnn as the number one guard of all time.

Mike was comparatively small for a lineman, 6 foot and 210 pounds, but made up for that with explosive spirit, brains, speed and an almost inhuman ability to outguess the opposing teams. He did every was underscored only this By LEE REMMEL month, in fact, when Pro Foot-Versatility, in the fullest magazine named im as Ted Fritsch, Bo Molenda and Hurdis McCrary certainly were not forgotten in the balloting. sense of the term, is the trade, lsA glan(Te the mark of the swashbuckling all- which yield such names as Perhaps the most crucial By JACK TCENGER Football fani hav remarkable memories. Eleven yean ago, In 1946, the Press-Gazette held a search for what it termed 'The All Time Packer Team." Ballots CHARLES (BUCKETS) contest for any of the positions time Packer team chosen by the Ernie Nevers, Sammy Baugh, came in the nomination of thing a guard can do and did it a little better than all the fans of 1957 Sid Luckman and Bronko Na- halfbacks. Seldom have 11 men of their Plnts UP tne magnitude Early leads for nomination went to Johnny Blood and rest.

The Penn Slate alumnus, after two seasons with the ioi mis nonor. by the thousands came into the newspaper with the names many ana variea gridiron is safe t0 say that the Verne Lewellen, with mount' of former greats. talents been "assembled any-i mercurial blond from Pine New York Yankees, joined the! mg votes for such outstanding Packers as Bobby Monnett, where under one banner. now an auto deal- That All Time Team proved that football fans take polls as a lerious business. There fact, the lineup reads like in Racine, was the most fear-j Joe Laws, and Tony Canadeo, The surge continued for were few sentimental votes GOLDENBERG, guard: The tank-like Goldenberg came to the Packers out of Wisconsin in 1933 and stayed around to help them win three world championships.

A hardnosed competitor who gave everything he had on every play, the squat (5-10, 220) Buckets went through three distinct phases during his Packer career. He started out at fullback as an understudy to Clarke Hinkle, then later was shifted to quarterback in the Packers' Notre Dame box to capitalize upon his blocking ability. He gained his greatest fame Blood, while choices for the cast, with the resounding ma other halfback slot varied: "Who's Who" nearly half jed man the game has known, of them are listed on Football Every NFL team set up a spe-Encyclopedia's all-time all-pro cial "Hutson Defense," a realis-team and the others were all- tic tribute to his greatness, but pro selections during theirlnone was particularly effective, playing careers. I Possessed of blazing speed, among numerous candidates. jority of voters naming top flight candidates for every po lition.

Now, In 1957, the Press-Ga Then, in the final days of bal The heroes who cataDultedimateniess coordination ana Packers in 1929 and starred for Green Bay's NFL representa-j tives through 1937, winning! all-league honors in 1931 andi '35 in an era when truly great guards were a dime a dozen. CHARLIE BROCK, Brock, a Nebraska product, 'was another of the Michalske jmould. Small for a center at :210 pounds, he offset this handicap with brains, uncom-con speed and competitive (fire. Though an excellent block-jer and fine mechanical center, loting, the Pride of Gonzaga, Canadeo, began becoming more and more of a popular choice. rette wanted to see how.

the choices of 1946 stood the test Green Bay into the international spotlight, they represent an He passed Monnett, Laws, of time and whether any "new attacking force that would rank er faces" would be fit into the Hank Bruder and Cecil Isbell with two days of balloting remaining. In a final flurry of votes, the Grey Ghost caught picture of all time greatness. Tha, recent two week still later, however, when he search for an All Time DON HUTSON sure pair of hands to go with a deceptive change of pace that often left frustrated defenders sprawling in his wake, Hutson amassed a record 825 points during his 11-year career. Not satisfied with driving the enemy to distraction with his pass-receiving and ranking as one of the league's finest pass defenders himself, Hutson also became one of the NFL's most reliable extra-point kickers and an accurate short-range field Green Bay Packer Team fnd Pasd Jerne Lewellen to with Blood moved to guard during the war years and was a key figure in the Packers' offense as they claimed their last world title in 1944. matched the 1946 version reign as a starter on the greatest Packer team almost to a man.

of all time. Ail-Time Packer Team Hera again were ands Don HOWARD (CUB) BUCK, Hutson and La vie Dllwig, these assets were almost obscured by his ballhawking ability. One of the most accomplished ball-stealers the NFL has seen, he scored four touchdowns through his light- ALL-TIME PACKER TEAM Pos. Ht. Wt.

School Trj. with the greatest in football, history and a bruising defense that would yield ground to the enemy ever so grudgingly. Offensively, this dream team would have the following artillery to strike from anywhere on the field at any given moment: (1) The immortal Herber-to-Hutson aerial combine, perhaps the most potent scoring instrument football has known; (2) Clarke Hinkle, the human sledge hammer who also ranks as one of the finest field goal kickers in National Football League history; (3) Tony Canadeo, the ever reliable Gray Ghost of Gonza tackle: This burly giant, a symbol of the Packers' early days when they were struggling to establish themselves in the National Football His choice was the only variance from that of 1946, and, he was one of three "post-war" Packers named to the All Time team. The others being Hutson, who stopped in 1945, and Brock, who quit in 1947. goal specialist.

HUTSON, Don End (-1 178 Alabama 11 DILWEG, Lavvlo End -3 20? Marquettt HUBBARD, Cal Tackl 6-5 265 Geneva I BUCK, Cub Tackle 8-1 250 Wisconsin 4 MICHALSKE. Mike Guard 6-6 210 Penn Stat I GOLDENBERG, Buckets Guard 5-10 220 Wisconsin 13 guards Bucket! Goldenberg and Mike Michalske, and tackles Cal Hubbard and Cub Buck. Nebraska's Charlie Brock again dominated votes for center, while Arnie Her-ber was a 2-1 choice for the all time Quarterback. There League, was the first "name" plaver to join the Green Bay ranks. BROCK, cnarllr Center 6-2 310.

Nebraska 9 HERBER, Arnold Quarterback 5-11 205 Rffjis 10 BLOOD. Johnnv Halfback 6-1 190 St, John 7 A total of 59 former players, ROBERT (CAL) HUBBARD, tackle: An all-time all-pro choice, Hubbard was a tremendous man (6-5 and 265 pounds) but agile and mobile. He did everything right and his huge bulk made him a chronic including memDers oi aimosi CANADEO, Tony Halfback 6-0 19 Gomaea 11 Cub, who came to the Pack was little question about full Clarke Hinkle, although every team since 1919, received nominations. HINKLE, Clarke Fullback 5-11 198 Bucknell 10 Packer Playing Years: Hutson 1935-45; Dlltvej 1927-34; Hubbard 1929-36; Buck 1922-25; Michalske 1929-36; Goldenberg 1933-45; Brock 1939-47; Herber 19311-39; Blood 1929-33 and 1935-36; Canadeo 1941-44 and 1946-52; Hinkle 1932-41. In position balloting, men headache to opposing teams on both offense and defense.

ga who averaged 4.2 yards per carry during a brilliant 11-year ers in WZ2 after starring the Big Ten with Wisconsin, was a crunching blocker, clearing the way for such as Verne Lewellen, Curly Lam-beau and Charlie Mathys, and virtually immovable on receiving a high number of votes for the starting end as Cal, today as well known as career; signment included Milt Gan-tenbein, Tom Nash, Harry (4) Johnny Blood, the leg supervisor of American League kf hys ill if 3 endary Vagabond' Halfback umpires as he is for his foot Jacunski and Carl Mulle- who contributes the long threat ball career, was an All-League neaux. wter In addition to these contri Russ Letlow, the first draft and a spectacular pass re- choice when the selections ceiver; and started in 1931 and repeated in butions, the 6-1, 250-pound choice that the Packers ever made (1936), was a popular i (5) A big, mobile line bul- 1932 and 1933. warked by mountainous Call Hubbard broke in with the candidate for guard honors, Cub was the Packers' toe in that 1922-25 period, booting 24 extra points and 12 field goals. along with former Minnesota great Dick Wilduhg, TCU's Lon Evans and Jim Bowdoin LaVERN R. (LAVVIE) DIL It I i i WEG, end: An' all-league of Alabama, choice the first year that team Among the popular and vote-getting tackles were Buford if New York Giants in 1927, when his tackle partner was Steve Owen, later head coach of the Giants.

Cal joined the Packers in 1929 and played here through 1935 before splitting his final year of 1936 between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Giants. AUGUST (MIKE) MICHAL Hubbard, Cub Buck and Mike Michalske, operating in company with Buckets Goldenberg, Charlie Brock and Lavvie Dil-weg. To better assess their merits, it might be well to examine the all-timers' records individually: DON HUTSON, end; There never has been any question P4 'I If (Baby). Ray and Ernie Smith was named in 1931, Dilweg was a 60-minute player through all his career, a crashing blocker and impregnable 10 followed by Paul Lipscomb, Claude Perry and Red Sleight. Genial Francis (Jug) Earp, who served two hitches at cen on defense.

if VERNE LEWELLEN Lawie played in an era ter for Green Bay after leav about the Alabama Antelope- SKE, guard: Like Hutson and Hubbard, Michalske is in football's Hall of Fame. When the all-pro team was chosen by the when an end was a blocker and defender rather than tha catching part of a forward pass mg Monmouth was a close he has been an automatic for years, not only on from 1928-32 as a snapperback.quarterbaek position but the He served later as the prgani-fans didn't forget other great zation's publicity director. signalmen like Joseph (Red) As in 1946, Arnie Herber wasDunii, Tobin Rote, or Curly an outstanding favorite for theLambeau. lmn and his name is not prominent runner-up to Brock for center honors. Earp labored for the Packers from 1922-27 and again every all-time Packer team butl Football Encyclopedia, he re JUG EARP on Jevery all-pro honor elevenceived more votes than any RED DUNN TURN TO PAGE 2J, COLUMN 1.