Press accounts praised Vick for "his absolute dependability in passing the ball, coupled with his almost superhuman defensive play." It was also reported that, despite his lack of practice time, Vick "never had one minute of time taken out," and was never "credited with a bad pass to a back field man." The "Michigan Alumnus" devoted more than a page to Vick after his selection as an All-American, including the following:"Followers of football at Michigan did not doubt Vick's supremacy as a centre. … Vick was unquestionably the mainstay of the line. There was hardly a play that he did not get into. It is admitted that there was not a better lineman in the West at diagnosing a play, and when the play was completed Vick usually emerged from the mass of men who had stopped the formation."