Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-31
SOME Kick ABOUT new RULES
/ Declared that Yale Will Not Be
Favored More Than Others.
oUTsIDE KICK Is CONSIDERED
one whs Fisas Fauit Says that
TAere g. NotAfsg Now TO sus-
t.f. Fsae ksckisg that
Has Developed.

NEW IOtks MANU- G-h hasJotiS VI
comments on the new rsct bali rules hsve
been favorable. but there are some DIS
senterx. one criticism that the rules are
calculated to help Tale foot ssIi 10 not
worth serious consideration. The ruIrs
are not calculated to help Yale any more
than any other foot ball camp that has
shown . desire 70 develop offsnse a. vel
as defense Harvard win have 1.-TWO Of
the best rushing backs on the field next
fan in wendell and Brickley. yet there
has been no plant from Yale that the
rules vsll help Harvard.
One who finds fault says in connection
with the abolishing OF the onside kick;
The last two or three years have wit
messed The best kicking. on the average.
that American foot ball has ever known.
and II 10 to be regretted that there will
be no incentive TO sustain H." Further
along he says that Gordon Browns
great Yale eleven OF 100 didn't have .
Kicker who could have qualified for q
good high school eleven Of isii 30 far as
that one department Of the game was
concerned
HIN school elevens must have sequired
exceptional kickers indeed last fall "
Al Sharpe wouldn't have been able TO
qualify for them. Sharpe was the kicker
on Gordon Browns team. and was q first
class man IN that department. He always
has been rated among the games best
kIckers. either at putting or drop kick
Ing. He kicked q goal from the field
from the forty-five-yard hne once against
Princeton. but then maybe high school
teams are not satisfied with men who
can't kick them from the fifty-yard line.
MA.y Adept Kiekers.
As TO ''fhe best kicking on an average
10 the last two or three years. nobody
around these parts has noticed any better
average kicking In the last two or three
years-thst. IL since the day Of the on
side kick. There was no shortage OF
adept kickers In the days Of more rush
Ing than now or before there was any
euside kick. Moreover. they averaged IN
;ust a. we'll then. too. There were IN
many excellent kickers IN period Of say
fiftssn years prior To the onside kick
that n may be questioned whether fif-
teen years Of the onade kick would have
developed any more. OF a. many. Names
cen be found In plenty 10 show that kick
Ing was far from neglected up 10 the
change In thu rules which allowed the on
side kick. II m wasn't neglected. IN the
DAYS when I'VE yards In three downs was
the ORDER Il isn't likely 10 be now that II
Is ten yards In four downs,
Ths iist Of expert kicksrs who flour
ished bsfore thsfs was any onside kick u
sufficiently long 10 PROVE that the onzid'
KICK wssn't necessary to develop I
socdiy sapply Of accomplished toe ex
perts. The list spesks for itself. n zoe
bach a. far a. the days Of Eugene Rich
ards and Aieck Moffat. who were fuIi,
ss capable N their era as Coy ana Daitol
Of the modern age. Also prior TO tn
onside kick were William Bun yale
shcp Romans. Princeton; Walter Ecker
sail. Chicago: Hirschberxer. Chicago; Pa
o'Dea. Wisconsin; Malcolm Mcbride
Yala; Arthur Brewer. Harvard: A
sharpe. Tale: John De witt Princeton
Bob Herman. Harvard; Percy Haughton
Harvard: Francis Burr. Harvard: Led
yard Mitchell. Yale: Johnsoa and Hudsol
Of the Indians: Reynolds. Pennsyivanla
Bowman OF Yale
Ameng the Cracks.
guch good kickcrs as Coy Of Yale
Mount Pleasant OF Carlisle. Iollenbacl
OF Pennsylvania. Mccroa Of Lafayette
veeder Of Yale. Walden Of Cornell an
Douglas and Northcroft Of the Navy d.
rot owe their development as boosters 4
the onzlde kick Harlan and Coy playe'
In the days Of tho onsido Kick. and mad
expert use Of It. but were first class kick
ers before the adoption Of the rule allow
ing n. Iris altogether likely that thrc
OF tho crack kickers Of the present day
lie Win Of Princeton. FELTON, Of Haryar
and Dalton Of tho Havy-would have bee
last as gsoa pointers last year. onside o
no onside kick. There weren't 60 msny
De Wits o. Daltons or Feitons YIN
around tasf tho average Of good kicker
for whom the ouside Kick Is responsible
looks as ail large a. compared to goo
kickers Of other days.
AN In all" says q critic. the cornms
Zee has tealt . blow 10 the smaller col
lsxez. xhlls those Of the big fellows VII
have ~ chosen % use strstegy shout
b MI pieA<ed- Il Il already being re
marked Vita rather unkind humor tia
Yale sught nov 10 be able 70 make
fouchdsxn-"
II szAy be observed. without 10 any wa
bsirg . ae<ense Il Eai's methods. ths
Yais hzs not suffered any more In II
tsschdown line IN recent years than AM
other big coiiege ard that tso Of IN
clsssrss< hts u strstssy q rse~nt year
the rsn fron fake plses kick and lon
forward pazs we're sprung by rsle- A