Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-02
Players Have Been Shoot
ing at Marks for Years
Without Avail.
ONLY FEW ONES NOW
New Drop Kick Record of
SO Yards Was Estab-
lished Last Fall.

NEW YORK, Nov livery season
al.u his is no exception the new
stars Cf the football ornament shoot
at some of the records that have been
made in the other days Of the grid
non sport. Football has progressed
in The last few years. Everything has
been done to speed upThc game and
bring about The greatest ability in
every player. Yet only Il few of the
marks set by the olI-'imcrs have been
fractured. All of which would ndi-
cate that the boys IF a generation ago
knew quite lot about thls up-and-at-
EN- pastime
Tho drop-hckers have ncw
mark to boot at this season. 1t was
made by Mark Payne IF Dakota Wos-
lcyan, who drove dropped ball over
the goal posts from the G3-yard line
in the game against Northern normal
last fall. This achievement of Payne's
fractured the ;7-year-old mark of 62
yel DIS made by Pat O'Dca of Wiscon-
SIN against Northwestern. fayne's
kick wasn't of the fluke order. 1t
was a clean hoist that sem the ball
well over the cross bar and directly
IN the center. although he sho. from a
different angle
Three mon are tied for third place
horrors in the irop-kickjng line. with
Cowling of Harvard. who made his
mark against Princeton in 1879; J. y.
Duffy (Michigln, 1S9D. against Cor
nell; O. W. Wilcox {Mlnfield Pa.
nCrm8D, against Wyoming.
HaxalPs Record Rcmlins.
j. 4. Haxall Of Princeton made n
Gs-Yard placement kick against Yale
In 1882, which is the record for that
sort CT kicking. J. E. Davis of Dick
inson place kicked SO yards against
Pittsburgh in 1905 while the third
lace honors IA edividcd by w. G.
c. cwell (Swarlhmore. 1900 and Fred
Bcnnion Uftah. 1900. who booted
The placed ball for 55 yards.
Tho longest touchdown run was
made by G. S. McCaa of Lafayette on
October Is, 1909. while playing
against Swarthmorc. McCaa's team
got the ball on downs 4 few inches
frCm its own line. The ball was
Passed to McCaa back of his own line
and he ran tho entire length of the
ficld-11O yards-for n touchdown.
This record probably will last for all
time, rs the rules since have been
changed which limlt the length OF the
| field to 100 Yards. y. g. Grey of
Cherln ran 100 yards through the
Cornell line on october 10. 1908, while
thrd place is given To Erehnrt of In
ciana, who made a 10S-yard run
arainst Iowa In 1912. Walter Ecker
Sails 10c-yard sprint for Chicago on
November %. 1904, following the Wis
oonsln kick off, gives him fourth
place among the long-r,ln boys.
Across the Field.
James Dc Hart of Pittsburgh carved
| for himself niche in the hall of
fame last year. He got n puntcd ball
! five Yards behind his own goal line
erd ran it through a broken field for
touchGown--the longest run that
has been made since the lo0-yard
field has been In effect. John Far
rctt of Washington ard Lee. got a
Cornell kick off one yard back II HIS
own line and immediately raced down
\ and across the Ithaca goal line.
d. ]. Murphy Of the Christian
Ercther college holds the record for q
run with an intercepted forward pass
He snatched tbs bali on his own goal
line when II was passed hy one OF the
southern Illinois college players and
ran the full length of the field for a
score.