Generally however, the players are rated at the top of the pro list because of their apparent football ability. Sometimes the All-America lads never make the grade after they report at the training camps. Each club picks twenty players for rookie material at the draft meeting. Some of those selected decline to play pru football or refuse to join the club What gets them for various reasons About 60 per cent. of the 200 select. ed go to the training camps. And less than half of those who report for training remain with the clubs after the season starts.
Sometimes the "sleepers" come through and become outstanding stars like Dutch Clark and sometimes the All-America lads prove flops like Chris Eagle. But it is interesting to note, anyway, that the sports writers and the professional brass hats approach some sort of agreement in deciding upon the relative football abilities of seniors in college. It indicates that the All-Americas are not so silly, after all—United Press.
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