The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14

New York. November 13.-A field goal whether it is the old drop-kick, or rom placement is footballs most important feature. Though hoist over the bar counts but three points it is much easier to get than touchdown, under the new rules Punting aleo cuts a mighty big figure these dayss and the young man with an educated toe is a whole lot in demand Line plungers are so uncertain and end runs are attempted with such risk of losing the ball that bunting is the safe way of keeping the ball out of dan ger A team that can gain on an ex- change of punts can soon put the pig skin in position where a field goal can be attempted.
 Ted Coy has realized the worth of a good kicker and 1t is said that he ex- poets to defeat Harvard in the annual struggle at Yale by this method of at tack. Deming is probably the man who will be called upon to do the hoisting for old Eli.
 Princeton has two corlxing drop-kick- CTS in Pendleton and Ballou. The latter is also great punter. and he was at his best in the game at the Polo grounds against Dartmouth when he outshone Ingersoll, the crack Green mountain holster in rattling duel.
 Harvard has not displayed much of their true strength in the kicking depart ment, but against Yale they will proba- | ply be forced to. Let it be known that the Crimson team has a trio of booters who can be counted upon to do this duty when called upon to perform. They are Corbett, Wigglesworth and Leslie. Cor bett Is also dandy drop-kicker, but his speciality runs to long punts. On ac- count Of Harvards ability to gain through the line, around the ends and 1 on the forward pass they did not resort to drop-kiclSng at all in the early games. Of course, field goal only counts three points, Gin the old daysrit counted five points,, while a touchdown and goal counts six points, yet 1t is easier to se- cure two field goals than one touchdown | under the new rules.
 Harvards strength lies almost entirely in her backfield men. Her forwards are good, but nothing exceptional In Cor bett and Frothingham the Crimson has as nifty pair of halfbacks as any that ever decorated 8 Crimson gridiron. Cor | bett does not appear to stand fast, but | he gains momentum as he hits the line or encounters taclSlers. Not even the wonderful Pendleton of Princeton has anything on him unless 1t is in broken field, when the little Tiger Is in class by himself. But Pendleton does not pick openings any more quickly or skim through them more certainly. Frothing. ham Is nearly Corbetts equal, too.
 In Lewis and L. D. Smith the Grim son eleven has a wonderful pair of ends It was in the game against the Army a West Point that they showed at thei best. They almost invariably blocked off their Cadet opponents. giving thu
 Harvard back good starts in running back for punts. And when Harvard wa bunting, they were down the field lil< twin streaks, almost always mailing thei men before they had half a chance to ge in motion. For that matter 1t can be sail lthat in the Army game the whole Grim son line was quick in covering punts.
 The forward pass is great play whe
 fl is successful but it is a costly metho i, of attack when it goes wrong.
 That the forward heave, a play, is
 deceptive method of strategy when fore
 ing the attack, has not been brought ou more forcibly than it was in the Prince ton-Dartmouth struggle.
 At the conclusion of the third pei1o , the ball was in possession Of the Dar'
 mouth team in the third down, with aboi eight yards to gain
 Dartmouth had obtained the ball aft' t it had fallen close to the Princeton TIT