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Show ABANDONED ON-SIDE KICK PLAY IS AGAIN RESTORED TO PLAY BY BIG ELEVENS! The on-side kick, one of th! most dangerous plays in football, Is again, being used by eastern elevens ?nd, and may be called into commission on western gridirons before the important im-portant games are played. Former coaches and close followers of the game are at a loss to explain why this play has not been used more frequently in recent ..ears. It is a play which has decided the issue of m my hard-fought contests, and certainly will not result more disastrously tnan an intercepted forward pass. The play was used to good succ'ss last year by the c.imp Taylor eleven in Its game with Camp Grant at the! Cubs' ball park In this game little de-, ception was used to conceal the play. The player who was delegated to re i cover the ball simply stood alongside the kicker a,nd when the l?tter took bifl step forward to boot the oval the jth er player was onsidfl when tfe ball was actually kicked and was eligible to recover it before it was touched by I an opponent. When Bunny Hare was captain of: the University of Indiana elevon back I in 1904-05, he workea the kck sue-' cessfully numerous times. The writer writ-er was playing with Chicago at Miat time, and Hare successfully worned 'he kick on the Maroons two or three 1 1 in s The Hoo-ie, i-ader kii d i he ball on the run to i Ithei side of the! field, while three players were behind j him when the ball was kicked. They Were on the dead run when the ball ! was hooted, and when the oval struck , the ground it invariably bounded Straight up in the air and did not ill as generally is the case. Other western teams took the cue from Hare's example and worked the Kicks successfully numerous tin.es. ; But the western teams never oid take to the play as successfully as the eaal ' f ri n elevens, and for this renscn never I developed it to such a point of vffi-clency. vffi-clency. Pennsylvania always has favored fa-vored the play and is using it this season. sea-son. In a few games played In the east the short kiek on the klckoff has been used. This play can usually be worked successfully if the receiving tackles play farther back than usual !n order to get into the interl-rencr- for ihe ,-.jn ner. L'sually two or three players of the kicking team are delegated to take ofl the guard on the receiving team to the f ide on which the ball Is kicked One or two fast players are select) I to gel the ball. The hooter 1m Instructed tp kick the ball off to onslde and in such a manner that it has a reveix- s.un This usually results in the ba! bounding bound-ing straight up in the air or back as roon as it hits the ground. The onside kick is Ju-r as much S ch&Ace play as the forward pass, h must be covered by the kicking team he same as a forward pass mi should be included in the repertoire of every team's pla . |