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Show Drop-Kick Record Set by Payne Still Stands A record that has stood for three collegiate generations challenges the kicking talent which the HC'd fisitball season will uncover. Thirteen years ago. Mark I'uyne, a halfback on the Dakota Wesleyan university uni-versity football team, made a fl,'! yard dropklok against Northern Normal of Aberdeen, S. D.. on the hitter's field, and none of the plienoms uncovered In the more recent years of football's greater popularity have come within seven yards of the mark. Payne's powerful boot fractured a record which had stood for 17 years B (U-yard dropkick which Pat O'Dea of Wisconsin mode against Northwestern Northwest-ern I u IS! IS. Put since I'.XH only three men have made a dropkick from behind the fifty-four-yurd line. Robertson of Dartmouth dropkicked 54 ynrds against Cornell in P.H'J, uud I.unioni Johnson of St. Mary's college, Kansas, dropkicked 50 yards In 115. |