The daily Alaskan., 1909-11-29

JOHNNY MGoyEES. CAPTAIN OF MINNIE
 SOFIA ELEVEN.
 duce the value of both drop and place kicks to three points instead of four a change in gr,diron warfare seems i'm mineut Indeed. it appears a possibili- ty that fewer matches will be won this season by the leather rwirling between the uprights. The fact however, that the scoring value Of the play has been reduced one point robs it Of much eff tectiveness.
 Last season two field goals netted eight points. hence if the team blessed with an accurate kicker could slave of its opponents attack with only one touchdown resulting the pair of field goals would win the day. Under the new scoring rules, however, with the field goal yielding but three points. it will take three successful boots to down Che eleven scoring lone touch down.
 When one goes over the listor games that were won by the field goal the statistics are astonishing. Prominent among ,hcm is Uaryard's defeat of Yale. when Keuuard made his now famous drop kick. Then a field goal was responsible for the overthrow of Princeton by Dartmouth. Many vic tories were achieved by the Carlisle Indians through the four point medi- um. the uborigiues possessing kickers of rare excellence in Thorpe and Ba- Ieuu. On more than one occasion the toe Of Auerdice saved Michigan.
 And then this seasons crop of toe artists does not give promise of com ing up to the standard of the 1908 galaxy. Kcnu0rd will probably not play for Harvard, Shcrwin of Dart mouth has been graduated, Wheaton ot Yale is now a back field coach Northcroft. captain of last years navy eleven. and Langc have completed their courses; Balcnt and Thorpe will likely not play with the Indians; Jack Means has been graduated from Penn sylvauIa and Caldwell from Cornell.
 However. a few stellar kickers are left. Vorhis of Penn State, who de feated Cornell in 1907 with two field goals. is leading bis team this year. Another Keystone State combination that promises Go boast of a capable toe artist this season is the Univer- slty of Pennsylvania. Tn Thayer the Ouakers have capable performer. He gave signs Of real worth last year In practice. and his work is now show ing to advantage When the red and blue opened their season it was Thay- CTS toe that added three points to twenty garnered against Gettysburg.
 Cunningham or Princeton showed last season that he has kicking ability and win very probably be developed along these lines. Captain Coy of Yale was responsible for four point score in the 1908 Brown game and should help out the Ellis in this department AhAE AlN NNNiANA =h'N NttN AA AANNA"' In a recent game against the Spring field IT. s. he kicked six goals. Moore of Cornell kicked a goal against Penn syIvania last Thanksgiving and will probably be used for this phase of the Ithacans' attack
 Allerdlcc, NIichlgan's captain, won a victory from Case with his toe. The blond captain kicked a field goal late in the second half, thereby scoring Michigan's only points of the game. Mon of Wisconsin and McGovern of Minnesota are two other stellar artists in booting the leather between the sticks
 Everything taken into consideration however. and present indications do not point to such a general and sue sessrul use of the field goal as the 1908 campaign developed, there may be latent talent among the candidates as yet unearthed and. such being the case, several surprises may le sprung