The Washington herald., 1915-09-26
Big College Gridiron Teams
AS Sized Up by an Expert

| good kickers this years output of field
| goals is likely to he abnormally high.
! The time has passed when a man can
/ get on a team merely because he Is Il
! good goal kicker. There must be sure
! goal kickers now as ever. but for the
most part ability to kick goals from field
| is merely a by-product of the player who
! has earned his position for otncr rea-
sons.
The greatest drop and place kicker the
country ever saw has been lost to the
game through the graduation of Brckley.
of Harvard He may be duplicated this
year. but it is not likely. There is a
youth at Lehigh University by ths name
of W. c. Cshall who kicked aCout a
dozen field goals last year. quite as good
| a record as is credited to Br,Skley. but
if the former Harvard captain had been
permitted to see how many sch goals
he could kick in a season tile ndmbe:'
would probably have been near fifty.
BriCkley's place at Harvard will be taken
by Mahan, the new captain, who is al
most dependable. especially in a crisis
as Brickley himself. Then Harvard has
another man in Robinson who promises
well
Yale has two very competent field
goal kickers in I-eGore and Guernsey.
lie Gore is the better man when close
up and can boot the ball between the
bars from almost any angle. But
Guernsey is an unusually skillful long
distance kicker. In Capt Barrett Cor
nell has as good drop-kicker as one
would want. He is dangerous at any
point between the - and - yard lines
and even bad angles don't worry him.
Barrett is fortunate in having DR.. A.
II. Sharpe as a coach, for when he was
at Yale Sharpe was one of the best
drop-kickers in the country. Princeton
has two good goal kickers in Tibbott
and Law. Unfortunately it does not
regular members of the back field. The
University of Pennsylvania has four
men who can drop and place kick, but
not one is as dependable is those just
mentioned They include Berry, Bell,
Quigley and Mathews. And in George
Brooke they have a first-class coach.
for Brooke was a great kicker himself
twenty years ago.
Cornell ROoters Must Travel.
For a team that is to open a new
field this fall, Cornell certainly has a
most unfortunate schedule. The Itha-
cans play three championship games
with Harvard, Michigan. and Pennsyl-
vania-and each is played away from
home Unless the Cornell undergrad
yates are content to see their team
play only against the minor colleges,
they will have to do a lot of travelling
to see what sort of team they have.
On October % Cornell must journey to
Cambridge for the Harvard game. Two
weeks later they take the train for
Ann Arbor TO play Michigan, while on
Thanksgiving Day they go to Philadel-
phia to meet Pennsylvania.
Cornell is unfortunately located to get
big games at home. 1900 crowd would |
be a record breaker for Ithaca, and. in
deed. this is about all the new stands will |
hold. There are so many other teeams |
anxious to play Harvard that the Grim |
son can compel Cornell to journey to
Cambridge every year. The Michigan
game alternates. but the Pennsylvania |
game draws twice as big crowd in Phil-i
adelphia as it would in Ithaca, and since
this means an addition NJ about sIo mi
to the Ithacans' bank account
In the absence of these big games for
home attractions Cornell has selected the
Williams game on October for the for.