THE JUDGES
For choosing a conventional All-America football team from the headline performers of a dozen fall Saturdays, football coaches and sportswriters are the authorities hallowed by custom and good sense. In SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Silver Anniversary All-America the criterion is achievement in career and citizenship stretching over a generation. The judging involves values as broad as American life itself and calls for a different kind of expert. This year's judges (see pictures) are sound authorities on achievement, representing in their own persons a cross section of distinguished American accomplishment.
The task of the judges was to study the citations advanced by 75 American colleges and universities in behalf of 75 senior football lettermen of 25 seasons ago, and to select the most outstanding 25. It was a taxing assignment. "If I had unlimited choices," wrote one judge, expressing the reaction of most, "I would vote for all 75, for all of them have made something real of their lives."
For the men the judges picked—the Silver Anniversary award winners of 1957—turn the page.
WILLIAM M. ALLEN
President, Boeing Aircraft Co.
S. C. ALLYN
Chmn., National Cash Register
LEE H. BRISTOL
President, Bristol-Myers Co.
DAVID R. CALHOUN
President, St. Louis Trust Co.
NORMAN CHANDLER
Publisher, Los Angeles Times
LESTER L. COLBERT
President, Chrysler Corp.
RAYMOND C. FIRESTONE
Pres., Firestone Tire & Rubber
ARTEMUS L. GATES
Corporation director
HERMAN HICKMAN
Sports Illustrated
ROBERT I. INGALLS JR.
Chairman, Ingalls Shipbuilding
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Senator from Massachusetts
CHESTER J. LaROCHE
Chmn., Natl. Football Foundation
GWILYM PRICE
Pres., Westinghouse Electric
WILLIAM E. ROBINSON
President, The Coca-Cola Co.
LEWIS S. ROSENSTIEL
Chairman, Schenley Industries
LOUIS B. SELTZER
Editor, The Cleveland Press
THOMAS J. HARGKAVE
Chairman, Eastman Kodak Co.
O. PARKER McCOMAS
Late president, Philip Morris
CHARLES G. MORTIMER
President, General Foods Corp.
FRANK PACE JR.
Pres., General Dynamics Corp.
CHARLES H. PERCY
President, Bell & Howell
JUAN T. TRIPPE
Pres., Pan-American Airways
HAROLD S. VANDERBILT
Capitalist and sportsman
WILLIAM K. WHITEFORD
President, Gulf Oil Corp.
ANGUS WYNNE JR.
Texas oilman and cattleman
TWENTY FIVE PHOTOS