THE JUDGES

First challenge was to U.S. college and university presidents to choose and endorse an athlete of 25 years ago. Then it was the task of these judges to review the citations and elect 25

To college presidents across the U.S. last June went a letter of invitation and challenge: to review the careers of their senior football lettermen of 25 falls ago and to designate the one man who has made the most notable achievement in his chosen field of life and in community service, in the generation since; a man, moreover, deserving national recognition for that achievement.

Such criteria, if simple, are severe. This magazine takes pride in the fact that, for the third year in succession, more than 70 colleges and universities have identified and honored such a man by the act of selection. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has no wish to minimize the long-familiar All-Americas announced every fall. We believe with our own late Herman Hickman, however, that silver anniversary career reviews help to illuminate some of the aims in which athletics, education and American society itself are joined.

To the board of distinguished Americans shown here SPORTS ILLUSTRATED submitted a 200-page dossier book consisting of individual citations exactly as written by the colleges and universities themselves. The 25 men the judges picked as most outstanding of the group—the Silver Anniversary All-America of 1958—are named on the following pages.

CHARLES F. ADAMS
President, the Raytheon Manufacturing Co.

JOHN E. BIERWIRTH
Chairman, National Distillers and Chemical Corp.

HAROLD BOESCHENSTEIN
President, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co.

DETLEV W. BRONK
President, the Rockefeller Institute

FERDINAND EBERSTADT
Investment banker, head of F. Eberstadt & Co.

HERBERT FLEISHHACKER
Vice president, Landis, Pelletier & Parrish, Inc.

GEN. ALFRED M. GRUENTHER
President of the American Red Cross

WALLACE K. HARRISON
Partner, Harrison and Abramovitz, architects

HENRY T. HEALD
President of the Ford Foundation

HENRY CABOT LODGE
American Ambassador to the United Nations

JOHN P. MARQUAND
Novelist and author

LEONARD F. McCOLLUM
President, Continental Oil Co.

JAMES F. OATES JR.
President, Equitable Life Assurance Society

HARRY A. BULLIS
Chairman of the Board, General Mills, Inc.

JOHN L. BURNS
President, Radio Corporation of America

JUSTIN DART
President, the Rexall Drug Co.

LELAND I. DOAN
President, the Dow Chemical Co.

SHELDON GLUECK
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard

HAROLD (RED) GRANGE
Football commentator and All-America

PAUL HOFFMAN
Corporation director and administrator

CHESTER J. LaROCHE
Chairman, the National Football Foundation

RALPH T. REED
President, American Express Co.

C. R. SMITH
President, American Airlines

EDWIN J. THOMAS
Chairman of the Board, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

HOMER C. WADSWORTH
Chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Fitness

TWENTY FIVE PHOTOS