Editing Walter Camp (section)

===Eastern bias===
{{see also|East Coast bias}}
The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.<ref name=Mans>{{cite news|title=All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois|newspaper=The Mansfield News|date=December 8, 1910}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Ross Tenney|title=Much Dissatisfaction Over Camp's All-American Team: Football Dean Is Accused of Favoring East; Walter Camp Soundly Scored For 'Poorest Teams Ever Foisted Upon Public'|newspaper=The Des Moines Capital|date=December 31, 1922}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Westerners Missed By Walter Camp: Football Wizard Puts Indian on 'All-American.'|newspaper=The Decatur Review|date=December 7, 1911|page=5}}</ref> Many selectors picked only Eastern players. For example, [[Wilton S. Farnsworth]]'s 1910 All-American eleven for the ''[[New York Evening Journal]]'' was made up of five players from Harvard, two from West Point, and one each from Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Brown.<ref>{{cite news|author=Farnsworth, W.S.|title=Picking All-Stars Is No Easy Task: Backfield Men Show Greater Individuality Then Men on the Line and Are More Easily Chosen|work=The Billings Daily Gazette|date=1910-12-04}}</ref>

The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended only games in the East. In December 1910, ''[[Mansfield News Journal|The Mansfield News]]'', an Ohio newspaper, ran an article headlined: "All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois."<ref name=Mans/> The article noted: {{quote|Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, judging by the way in which they permit their football writers to pick 'All-American' elevens. What man in the lot that have picked 'All-American' elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States? With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York. ... Suppose an Ohio football writer picked 'All-American' teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it. But apparently the eastern readers will swallow anything.<ref name=Mans/>}}