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Show I Toe Artists Playing Important 1 I ,- Parts In Gridiron Games This Season's B By TOMMY CLARK. fF the earl football games are any criterion of what may bo expoct- f J tJ the followers of tho strenuous H gridiron game aro to witness a Hl I high development of kicking this year. H With the season only a few weeks old 1 ' the brilliant work of tho too men has H I ' played a conspicuous part In winning H v many games and has actually swung Hl tho balance In several hard fought B battles. Hj Despite the lessoning of the value of 1 tho field goal, so far as points are con- H cerned, each year seems to mako tho H aerial eamo moio Important, and tho H team which has not a man capable of 1 punting from thirty-five to fifty yards j and placing field goals is hardly con- H ceded a chance at championships. H Although punting does not count in H tho scoring, it In coming more and H more to be regarded as one of the most H essential departments of a team's H game, even more important than field H goal kicking. H j With tho uncertainties of ground H l gaining in tho open game, punting r j H ' ' increased tremendously in importance H K Forward passes aro at best unrollablo Hl ( ground gainers, while it Is almost lm- H . , . possible to gain consistently on line" or H end plajs. The days when a heavy or H strong team could sweep Irresistibly 1 down the field toward an opponent's Hl goal have passed, for even tho wcak- H i est eleven is able to check a heavier H team if Its defense Is worked out prop- H erly. With the uncertainties of ground H gaining under the new rules it has bc- H come almost habitual for a team to H kick on its third down in case It has H more than a yard or two to gain. H There is nothing more discouraging H than for a team to Ioso the gain of ten Hr minutes of fierco play simply through Hj I the ability of a player of tho opposl- H ( tion to send the oal twisting and j hurtling high in the air back to tho H place from which the march began. A H fair team may make such a march H onco. a good one twice, but it takes H the exceptionally well coached and H strong hearted eleven to try time nftor time, realizing that tho slightest slip H on the part of tholr offonso leaves an j opening for the opposing team to put B the ball back to tho starting line, H It is on this account coaches are H drilling tholr men in tho art of catch- H ing punts. So far the east has shown Hl I tho way to tho west in this, with tho H I exception of tho canes of a few men. H T6 the eastern player the catching of 1 punts In tho west Is crudo in the cx- B tremc. but the western coaches arc H I handicapped by inability to secure man B- I upon whom thuy can rely to handlo the HBBBH , ' oval without a bobble. When n really H clever handler of the ball, such oh BBBBH ' Eckcrsall or Stcnns. appears It Is BBBBH demonstrated western work Is fully, as BBBBH I good aa the eastern, fl Eastern tutors, with the wealth of BBBBH j material, consider that mon sent baok J to get tho squirming and twisting oval BBBBH I are sure of themselves under any coh- Hl dltions. The effect of this 1b soon In avery game. Where tho western men run forward to mcot the ball In Its de- scent, often reaching tho placo whore J the ball la to drop two or three seconds J ahead of the oval and are forced to HI stand there awaiting It. eastern backs M set the ball on the run, UBing the two J or three seconds wasted by the wost- jI emers In waiting to deceive the on- ' coming ends of the kicking team. m I Another Important play which has J I been the result of much kicking la the running to the sldo on which tho pais was to be mado to guard against auch Interception. Every ono of tho eastern teams has two or more reliable toe artists. Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has four hand men In Marshall. Mar-shall. Minds Thayor and Captalh Mercer Princeton has Pendleton, Andrews An-drews and Pcnfleld Harvard is well supplied with Potter, Tolton and Wlg-glesworth. Wlg-glesworth. Tho latter was Injured In tho game with Holy Cross recently and will not be able to play until ono of tho big games with Yalo or Trlnco-ton. Trlnco-ton. Yale has Anderson the former Wisconsin halfback. Francis and Captain Cap-tain IIowc The latter has developed into one of the greatest kickers In tho country this season The Army is woll fixed with Arnold, Dean and Hyatt, whilo tho Annapoll3 men have a dandy In Dalton In Thorpe Coach Warner of the Carllslo Indians has a noted boot man Cornell seems to have the best of them all In "Uttle Eddie" Butler, the Red and White quarterback Butlor's educated too has won several games for tho Ithacans this season Nearly all tho western confcrcnco - ii " Cm I 'si FH1 or. If ho could not do so, to tackle any opposing plajer who secured the pigskin pig-skin On forward paaies It wa- not so necessary for him to be as far back us on klckK,. for forward passes rsirrl. urn , V . intercepted behind the scrimmage lino of tho toam making them He took no part in the attack, however, merely i v teams havo men of moro or less ability In the klcklns line this season Captain Cap-tain Andy GUI of Indiana Is probably the best In the west, his work not only being of the long distance variety, but extremely accurate Minnesota h.in a man of great ability In Capron. who Is said to be better than Johnny Mc-Goorn Mc-Goorn In the drop kicking lino and far his superior In punts. Thotoo by American Press Association. backing up of tho kicker. With tho open forward line blocked punts are iar more frequent than they used to he and unless there is a defonso the result lo fikcly to bo disastrous to the, team falling to take precautions. That this play Is equally important in forward passing woe demonstrated rooBt strikingly last year In sovor.il games In tho west when It completely changed the complexion of the contests One of the simplest and most effective effec-tive ways of stopping this play was demonstrated last ear by Michigan I Beside the punter or thrower of a for-ward for-ward pass or even a few foot behind him another man was stationed, whono duty it waa to recover blocked kicks ' Illinois has Seller, who won three games for his team lost jcar merely through his ability to kick goals and who was hailed as one of the stars of the wpst on this account, although his work In other department!! of tho game was no better than ordinary In Keckle Moll Wisconsin has a noted klckor During practice his work Is accurate and his punts very long. r 1 L " W" Chicago has not a man of ability, i0j u;i Coach Stagg baa been working ti& 5tt and day trying to find a player )VJfJL w'lll bo able to cope with the stars of' 5 his four great western adversaries ji Michigan has three reliable men la- ifti Captain Conklln, Harrington aai zJ? Thompson. Coach "Hurry Up" Yciti p& thinks he has one of the finds of u S season in Harrington. -fk i I JlOplimsHlii lie yH If I Ms - 'SraiiKiDK ill '' to - piHQK roil i ?ii ! iiMorari! Illllfcr ift SOME NOTED KICKERS WOSE BOOTING IS IN EVIDENCE THIS SEASON t jjb |