Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 9 | Here's Kick That Merits a Place in History

Here's a Kick That Merits a Place in History Lava Hot Springs. Idaho. Nov. 7. TO the Snorting Editor. Salt Lake Tribune: Dear Sir With your Sunday edition at hand I will, if I may. add one more to the list of. drop kicks and kicks from placement that are now immortal. Mark Payne's kick of a goal from the sixty-three -yard line is certainly certain-ly a wonderful kick. Pat O'Dea's history needs no illumination, and to even aMempt to summarize the goals of De Witt. Haxall. Duffy. Coy. Prick-lev Prick-lev a nd other famous drop kickers would he the height of presumption, but the. placement goat by Ca ptain Bull Sterriu In Hie (. olorado college-University college-University of ' 'olorado ga me In 1!'10 at Colorado Springs will ever be remembered re-membered as one of the greatest kicks ever made in the wel. TDK field was muddy to the depth of six inches, it having rained heaviiy the night before. The teams, after thirty minutes of as bitter a battle as had ever been fought on a gridiron, gave up their line plunging plung-ing and I urned to kicking. Three (rials Sterrit made from placement. Twice he was, successful. The third trial was so close that Referee C. Henry Smith said after the game that he would have been correct in allowing the score. The play was well advanced into the third quarter when the liall wa s placed about five yards from the east side line on Colorado college's forty-nine-ya rd line, w hen, wi t h one down to to. a Princeton formation was called. T' II K writ er stood in the west bleachers with Coa-'h Joe Curtis ! and the School of Mines s.juad, i i who had come to la ke points preparatory pre-paratory to I heir Thanksgiving day game. The ball was wet and soggy, the j angle as much as the side line would , permit and Sierritt's weight was pounds. The Mines squad eagerly awaited an expected fake play. The hall was snapped from X'ewtnn, Colorado's Colo-rado's center, to Kieni, whose left leg, as he kue't on one knee( was well over the center of the fifty-yard lino. ! As Kiem shot the hall onto a small paper marker Bull met it with a lift ! I kick from a run. The bull traveled up without a 1 u in for thirty-five yards. When it started to drop h began to slowly turn end over end. practically biseciing the goal post in the longest. and the gatuest kick from the placement place-ment ever made in the Rocky mountain moun-tain conference. Yours t rulv, JOSFPH A. MURPHY.