Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-28
FOOTBALL FIGURES
BOOST NEW RULES
GridirOn Sport Was Never So
Popular as During Season
of 1914.
COLLEGE ATHLETIC NEWS

In.an exhaustive statistical review
of the past football season by Parke
H. Davis, the Princeton member Of
the rules committee, 1t Is shown that
moro games were played and were
attended by larger crowds than in
any one season before in the history
of the gridiron sport.
Mr.. Davis says that the game was
played last fall by 45o colleges, 5000
secondary schools and by $50 teams
not connected with educational insti-
tutions, but representing athletic as
sociations. More. than $4,000 games
were played, IN which $4,000 players
participated.
There was an increased attendance
at most of the games played, and Mr..
Dayis's estimates showed that the
total attendance throughout the coun-
try was 10000 persons, the culmi-
mating attendance being the 10000
persons who occupied twenty-nine
miles Of seats in the Yale bowl at
the Yale-Harvard game.
The various sectional champions
are named by Mr.. Davis as follows:
East, Harvard; Ohio, Ohio State
Middle West, Illinois; Missouri VAL
ley, Nebraska; Pacific Northwest,
Washington University; South At
lantic, Virginia and Washington and
Lee; South, Auburn; Southeast,
Texas; Middle South, Tennessee;
Southwest, oklahoma: secondary
schools, Exeter; high schools,
Everett, Mass.
Two Rare Feats This Year.
MIR. Davis points out that the
greatest of feats in the running de-
partment of the game is the full-field
run from kickoff to touchdown. So
difficult and rare is this feat that
prior to the past season forty years
of football have produced only
tWenty-six instances of a back catch
ing the ball upon the kickoff and
running through an opposing team
for a touchdown. The past season
produced no less than sixteen such
runs, and two players, Gallagher, of
Christian Brothers, st. Louis, and A.
Bernard, Of Washington State Col
lege, have attained the novel distinc-
ton OF being the first players to make
the run twice in one season. Four
players share the honors OF having
made the longest run from kick of
to touchdown, the four having made
runs OF ninety-ffve yards. These
players were r. L. FOLEY, of Sc
vance; Benfer, OF Albright; Tucker,
of Pennsylvania and Gallagher, of
Christian Brothers.
Tolley, of Sewanee, and Sacksteder,
of Christian Brothers, also share the
honor of having made runs of eighty
FIVE yards, after catching punt. The
longest runs from scrimfnage forTna-
ton in which the ball WAS regularly
received were made by. C.. E.. Kirk,
Maine G. e. Smith, Michigan Agri-
culture, and William Morris, Of Den
yer, each of whom made runs OF
ninety yards.
Pittsburgh Players STINT. .
The record flight Of a player recov-
ering q completed forward pass and
scoring a touchdown was made by
H. w. Miller, of Pittsburgh, who ran
| seventy yards in a game with DiclSin-
son. The record fight OF a player in
tercepting an opponents forward
| pass and scoring a touchdown was
achieved by Sparks, of Chicago, who
| intercepted a ball from Purdue OPP
ponent and went eighty-fiye yards to
a touchdown.
Runs from recovered fumbles were
fewer than ever before. The most
spectacular and longest run of this
kind was made by T. J. Coolidge. or
Harvard, who recovered Yale fun
BILE and ran ninety-eight yards to a
touchdown. The longest kicks Of goals
from the field were made by Cusack,
of New York University, and Cofall.
of Notre Dame, both of whom kicked
goals from the 50-yard line. Cusack
was formerly q member of the Black
rock team of Dublin, where he played
for three years.
w. C. Cahall, of Lehigh, kicked ten
field goals during the season, which
is the top number. Among the sea-
sons best punters were Eels, or Will
| fans. who made a kick of seventy
! five wards, while LeGore, Of Yale,
had the high average OF flfty-five in
| one game.