The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
Southern Cridders Show
Well In Years Records
Cameron Leads Scorers, Hubert Second-Dixie
Stars Lead In Field Goals And Long Runs

The football season is a thing of the
past Football lovers now gather in
small groups and discuss the memorable
plays of season of thrills and compare
them with record plays of other sec
tions.
A glance at the statistics show that
the Southern Conference teams equalled
many of the feature plays of other sec
! tons and in a great many instances
! excelled them. In the matter of field
goals the south holds both of the ma
tons records for the year 1924. Don
aid Rutherford of Virginia Polytech-
mic institute holds the dropkick lead
with 52-yard kick against Maryland.
Ernest Williams of Alabama Polytecll-
mic institute led the place kickers with
a fifty-yard kick against Clemson. This
kick was more the remarkable since it
was kicked from a position about three
yards from the sidelines. Twelve con-
ference teams won games by the mar
gin of one or more field goals.
North Carolina State tied Davidson,
1910, through the air. Three confer
ence teams lost to outsiders by the mar
gin of a field goal. Great Washington
! and Lee lost to little Wake Forest when
Peagano of the latter school raced 30
yards for a touchdown after recover
ing tumble and Rackley later kicked Il
45-yard dropkick, giving the game to
Wake Forest 1913. North Carolina uni
versity both won and lost two games in
this manner, the field goal being n de
Gliding factor in four of their games
Ivan Williams of Georgia Tech was
the most successful goal kicker with five
to his credit, three of them winning two
games for his team.
Exceptional Punters
The south boosted several excep-
tional punters and it is very doubtful
if any punter in recent years has
equalled the phenomenal kicking of Cap
tain Ark Newton of Florida against
Washington and Lee. Newton punted
thirteen times for an average of o.
yards. Thomas Ryan, star fullback
of Vanderbilt university, also did some
noteworthy kicking against Mississippi
A. and NJ. when he punted twenty-four
times with wet ball, on a wet field
and had only one kick blocked.
John Mack Brown of Alabama uni
verslty was one of the two players of
the country to return a kickoff the
length of the field for a touchdown.
His sensational run came against Ken
lucky, a high class team.
Virginia was one of the few teams
to have kick blocked for Il touchdown.
When Captain Samuel Maphis of Nir-
glnia attempted to punt from behind
his own goal line, G. G. Blankenship of
Hampden- Sidney blocked the kick and
fell on the ball for his teams only
score. Southern players also scored
from intercepted passes after running
unusually long distance. Charles I.
Hughes of Kentucky ran % yards
against Alabama and Captain Newton
OF Florida ran 95-yards against Army
for their only scores Of the games. John
Mack Brown of Alabama ran 5S-yards
against Furman and 65-yards against
Georgia university for touchdowns.
Forward Passes
Flrward passing was highly developed
this year among conference teams. John
Mack Brown of Alabama received 10
ward pass and ran 55-yards for a touch
down against Union. A 51-yard pass
from Stevens, halfback, to Fay, and,
a five-yard run by the latter accounted
for Louisiana's only score against Geor-
gia Tech. A 25-yard pass, Frost, full
back, to Abner, end enabled Virginia
to beat Hampden-Sidney. George wal
Ter of Vanderbilt threw a 54-yard pass
to HEX Wakefield against Georgia and
passes of forty to fifty yards that fig
ured prominently in the scoring were
not uncommon.
One authority states that twenty-five
touchdowns were made by running back