The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-03
ONLY THIRTEEN
FULL-F|ELD RUNS
Touchdowns From Kickoff Very
Rare in Big Football Games

There rs no exploit in football so
difficult cot achievement and so rare as
the flll-iicld run from kickoff to
touchdown, writes Parke IL. Davis in
the November ST Nicholas magazine.
theoretically, such a performance
would seem To be impossible. Ac-
Wally, however, ii has been accom-
plishcd thirteen times against elcVens
If major strength in the last forty
years and probably has been achieved
as many more against minor teams.
4 search through the accounts of the
game from 1876 to 1881 finds only
single instance of full-iield kickoff
TO touchdown. Harvard was playing
Yale at Boston on November 20, 1880.
Just as the last five minutes began
Matter Camp kicked a goal from the
held for Yale
The teams quickly lined up for
kickoff and CUTS, of Harvard. sent a
long. swirlina kick to Yalc's 20-yard
Inc, where it was caught by r. w.
Watson, captain of Yale. With the
catch of the ball Watson leaped into
flight and sped straight up the field
throuph the entire Harvard team for
the first touchdown ever scored against
Harvard by Yale. Yale's previous vic
tories were achieved by goals from
the field
Harvard Man Next Hero.
S,N Years later Harvard's fullback,
Hamilton Sears, ran 50 yards through
the birmingham eleven for a touch
down
IN ls9' George b. Walbridge, OF La
iayettc, in a game against Wesleyan,
made the next run.
1t was another Lafayette man, who
achieved the next full-ield run of this
Kind The player was Edward q.
BRAY. Eray's run was the only one
Of two teld-runs from kickoff which
Won "a game. 1t was made against
Pennsy Ivania at Franklin field on Oct
obcr a. 1899.
IN tine west. on November Is, 1901,
T.. s. oehems, of Wisconsin. in "a
game against Chicago, caught the ball
from Kickoff on his l0-yard line and
dashed and lodged plunged and
"iithed through al opponents for a
touchdown. Two days later. Charles
- DAILY of the Army famous previous
R as played and captain at Har-
ward caught the Nays Kickoff also
on his l-yard line and sprinted an
even 100 Yards for a touchdown.
FORTUNE, with curious regularity,
permitted another period of two years
TO eldpSc before the occurrence of am
"'her idll-iield run from kickoff. This
u'ne % was a Carlisle Indian who COW
''u th" long distance, i'm a game
's'iusi Harvard October 81, 1908.
Indian Pulls Queer Trick.
Johnson, Of Carlisle, slipped the ball
otNrith the back of Dillon's jersey
iteI a kickoff. and while the entire
harvard team was looking for the man
VAN the ball. Dillon ran across the
crimson line, swinging his arms To
S"o" They did not hold the ball
me next instance Of fulfilled run
nom Niokoif brings us to the longest
run achieved in any manner i'm the
''S'"i! o. the major games, 1906 yards
walter II. Eckersall, Of Chicago.
oeaIi'' Wisconsin. November 20. 1904
i"a PiSht was made straight through
"o center Of the enemy The battle
''9 raising closely. scoring by one side
'' oelhS quickly followed by "a score
IVY me other Near the middle of the
,g''Nu half l.. G. DE Tray. Of Chicago,
''N'u ~ u fumbled ball and ran so
"NS Tor touchdown Notwith-
','uulhg this lead. the game was too
,'os' !or Chicago to feel sure of VIC
VT! or for Wisconsin To become re-
',1"e" To defeat Kennedy added an
Vl point to Chicago's score 10y
MeNtng the goal.
West Comes to Front
go "''euron Melzner kicked of for
'S'ohsin The bali scared into the
l."lS or Eckersa!l. who was standing
Chl'ago's courtyard mark. Crouch
Forward, he ran up the center. ON
-0-Nard lin" he cleverly sprang out
we clutches Of two Wisconsin ends
,'aping between them. Ten yards
,'''er' with an interference of seven
a, closely massed about him. he
INTO eight Wisconsin players.
e''h these colliding masses inexpli-
NO. oS burst ut the center, and the run
49, was shot through into a clear
a. save FOR a solitary secondary
Neishder, whose neetness of foot was