Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-15
MANY KicKERs
 GREATER THAN GOV
o'Dea Brooks and Haughton All Had
 It on Vale Captain.

Although Ted Coy Of Y ale Is not the greatest kicker who ever booted the pigskin, the present generation of the college following does well to hold him l in reverence and awe says Touchdown | in the Boston Journal The great kickers of football have indeed been few compared to the number of play l CTS.
 Alexander Moffat of Princeton, and | Eugene Richards of Yale, were two early kickers whose fame has efuded | time and still survives. Moffat was | drop kicker as well as punter, and had the thing reduced as nearly to a | science as anybody who has succeeded him. Richards could hold his own with Coy, as punter at least. | Pat O'Dea of Wisconsin, George Brooks of Pennsylvania, P. Haughton, the Harvard coach of two seasons just past, and Clarence Herschberger of Chicago are the names that, fairly or | unfairly, stand out forever. All could get wonderful distance. O'Dea was really a great drop kicker. And he was a most sensational punter, but he outkicked his ends.
 Billy Bull and Al Sharpe were Yale's | most famous drop kickers. Crowell of Swarthmore, McGovern of Minnesota, Sake, Fairchild and Daly of Harvard, Kennard, too, Draper of Williams, Poe | of Princeton and Dewitt as well, were men who could score by letting the ball drop and booting it as it rose from the ground.
 When football was first played in Chicago the crowd applauded when ever the ball was punted. This was perfectly natural, and it is by virtue of this natural emotion that the names of Brooks and O'Dea are still so fa- nous in football They could kick it | high and far. So can Coy.
 Mitchell and Moffat Two Stars. Yet if accuracy and timing of punts | for ends, adapting height, speed and distance to their ability to get down the field be considered, Ledyard Mitch ell of Yale and Moffat of Princeton should be ranked first of all. Height which gave the ends a chance and &C., l curacy were good points Haughton had.
 i A kicker, however. who was a mar vel of accuracy was Harlan of Prince ton. His skill with the onside kick has not been surpassed by any other | new football player. Where, then, does he rightly belong in the hall of fame?
 The first goal from placement made in a big game was made by Jack Minds of Pennsylvania, and no player has surpassed him at his own special ty, John Glaze of Dartmouth coming as near Minds as any man. McCaa of Lafayette and several of the Carlisle | Indian warriors have also excelled at | this feat
 The greatest place kick to be dis | tinguished of course, from the place ment kick, ever made in a game was made by Crowell of Swarthmore, who heeled fair catch at the center of the field. But O'Dea of Wisconsin kicked a drop kick from five yards on his of rF I'll ~s.,1r was the chief speciality of Dewitt of Princeton, the man whose toe beat Yale, although Dewitt was an all- around kicker of considerable merit This does not mean that Dewitt was greater than Alexander Moffat, in spite of popular opinions.
 The accuracy and nerve required in kicking goals after touchdowns is not to be despised. Braddock of Pennsyl- vania. Hobbs of Yale and Captain To- bin of Dartmouth are recent players who have had this to a marked degree.
 Never One hike o'Dea.
 Of all kickers the name of Pat O'Dea will no doubt last longest. His high spirals time and again in games went 80 yards through the afr-only 30 yards less than the length of the field. He consistently punted 65 yards. To be sure. these spirals sped so far and so
 
 kicks, yet they represented wonderful ability and a unique style which few kickers have initiated successfully. When Phil King of Princeton as coach brought the Wisconsin team east in 1899 the idea was to play Harvard if possible, in order that O'Dea might match himself against Percy Haugh- ton. The match was practically ar ranged, but it nevertheless fell through and Wisconsin played Yale instead. Yale won in the last minute of play by Richards five yard run.
 Comstock, Wisconsin's center play ed with his wrist in plaster of paris, and could not pass with his usual ac- curacy yet O'Dea's wonderful kicking will never be forgotten in the east. As matter of fact, however, no ends that ever lived could cover O'Dea's kicks. Mcbride of Yale, himself a most dependable kicker was quite as actually effective as O'Dea in this fa- nous match. ODea's longest field goal was made in 1898 on Thanksgiving day from the 65 yard mark five yards back of the middle of the field, Wisconsin beating Northwestern 47 to 0.
 Sake of Harvard kicked a drop kick against Amherst from the 52 yard line, this being the longest drop kick in the east of authentic record.
 Hirschberger of Chicago was the great fancy kicker. He could do more things with a football than any other one man, though he could not get dis tance with ODea. Hirschberger, on the kickoff, used to impart the ball a twist similar to that given a billiard ball on follow shot.