University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-19
TIGERS HAVE THREE
GOOD GOAL K|CKERS
Hackney and Hall Are Good
at Drops. and Graves
from Placement.
COACH SHIFTS HIS MEN
Neither Scrubs Nor Freshmen
Could Stop Varsity at
Practice Yesterday.

The University OF Missouri football
team is again having secret practice
this week. The gates will remain
closed to spectators until the Ames
game Saturday. Coach Hollenback ev.
identity is not yet altogether pleased
with the showing the team is making
and is switching the lineup every day
to try out new men and old men in
new positions. Excepting LeMire
whose leg was injured in the Iowa
game, and Barnes, whose shoulder was
dislocated in practice yesterday,
Holly" has practically the whole
squad at work. Hackney, Hall, and
the other injured players who were
not fit for the game last Saturday are
again out and in the scrimmage.
Hackney has been switched from
fullback to quarter. He scrimmaged
at this position yesterday and Mon
day and has shown up well. The po-
sition is not altogether new to Hack, "
as he played quarter on his "prep"
team and on the freshman team here
two years ago. In case Hackney
makes good at quarter it will solve
the Hackney-Nowell problem. These
men have been playing fullback. Both
are good punters and drop-kickers,
fast and experienced.
Scrimmage With Freshmen.
Klien played Monday at halfback.
This is an old position for Eddie
and he showed up we'll carrying the
ball. Knoble is being tried out at
end. He is big, strong, nervy, and
one of the fastest men on the Tiger
squad. Pixlee, an IN" man at end
on the Missouri Valley Championship
team last year, is now practicing reg
ularly in the backfeld and has been
carrying the ball with good results.
The Varsity scrimmaged yesterday
with the scrubs and Monday with the
freshmen. Neither the first year nor
second string men were able to stop
the Tigers, who scored frequently by
touchdowns and by dropkicks from
Hackney's toe.
Coach Hollenback is paying good
deal OF attention this week to devel-
oping the kicking game of the Tigers.
This department of football is playing
a more important part in deciding
games this season than ever before.
No less than half a dozen of the big
eastern games last Saturday, for in
stance, were decided by drop kicks
and kicks from placement.
Plenty Of kickers.
Luckily Missouri is we'll equipped
with good kickers this year. Hackney
is probably the best drop kicker in
the Missouri Valley. NOVEL; is al
most as good and may equal Hack"
when he gets over slight nervous
ness. Graves, who has been playing
tackle for Hollenback, showed in the
spring workouts that he is a kicker
from placement of more than average
ability. Saunders, a veteran quar-
terback, can also kick from placement
and drop kick if necessary. bud"
was considered wonder at the place
ment game here in his freshman year.
but has done little kicking since.
Hackney, NOVEL;, and Hall have been
doing all the punting this season for
The Tigers. They have been averag-
ing about the same distance. Hackney
and NOVEL; are depended upon to do
the onside kicking. Several new kick
formations are being practiced.
The varsity in their scrimmage yes
terday with the scrubs lined up with
Thompson at center; Fitch and Purk-
hiser at guards; Graves and Craig at
tackles, Idler and Burress at ends.
Hackney at quarterback, Hall and
Mills at halves, and NOVEL; at full. If
this backfeld goes against Ames Sat
urday the "Aggiesj' should find it
rather difficult to tell much in advance
about the kicking, for any one of three
men-Hackney, Hall or Nowell-is
likely to be the "booter."