Barrett and Ticknor Decline Invitations to Play on All Eastern Team--Crimson Players Named on "All" Teams

That J. E. Barrett '30 and B. H. Ticker captain and captain-elect of the Crimson football squad, would decline the invitation to play on the all eastern football in its Western conflict on the coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities.

Further attention to Harvard players has been marked by the appearance of J. G. Douglas '30 at end on several of the "All-Eastern" teams, and the prominence of the "Sophomore 4" in sports reviews in which the quartet, composed of W. B. Wood Jr. '32. E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, B. D. White '32, and Charles Devens '32, takes its place beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes."