Show NEW STARS OF THE FOOTBALL FIRMAMENT 0 o A 7 T jwj 41 Oll star fullback of west point every sea this is no DO exception the new stats stars of the foote football all firmament shoot at some of the records that have been made in the other days of the gridiron sport football has progressed in the last few years every thing has been done deneto to speed vp the game and bring about the greatest ability in every player yet only a few of the marks set by the old timers have been fractured all of which would indicate that the boys of a generation ago knew quite a lot about this upland up and at em pastime the drop kickers have a new mark to boot at this season it was made by mark payne of dakota wesleyan who drove a dropped ball over the goal posts from froin the wyard W 63 yard line in the ilie game gaine against bonnal last fall tats a celere e ment of paynes fractured the seven en teen year old mark of 62 yards made by pat odea of wisconsin against northwestern paynes kick gasn wasn t of the fluke order it was a clean hoist that sent the ball well over the crossbar and directly la in the center although he shot sho tirom from a different angle three men are tied for third place honors in the drop kicking line with a credit of 55 years they are J V cowling of harvard who made las his mark against princeton in iii 1883 J 11 duffy michigan 1891 against cornell 0 W wilcox mansfield va ra Norn normal ialy against wyoming Hax alls record remains J T haxall of princeton made a 05 yard placement kick against yale in 1882 which Is the record for that sort of scoring J P davis of dickinson place kicked 58 yards against pittsburgh in 1905 while the third place honors are divided by W 0 crowell swarthmore 1904 and fred dennion utah 1904 who booted the placed bell ball for 55 yards yara the longest touchdown run was made by G S mccaa of lafayette on october 15 1909 1009 while playing against swarthmore mccaus team got the ball on downs a few inches from its own own line the ball was wag passed to lectia back of his own line and lie he ran the en the length of the field yards tori for a touchdown this record probably wl will 11 last for all time fis as the rut rules s since have been changed which it limit it the length of the field to yards G C gorey garey of oberlin ran yards through ligh tho thi cornell line on october 10 1908 while third place Is given to erhhart of indiana who made a yard run rull against iowa in 1912 walter beker yard sprint for chicago on november 20 1901 1904 following the wis corsan kickoff gives him fourth place among the long run boys james de hart of pittsburg h ca baited ed for himself a niche in the hall of f fame f last year he abi n punted aunedi ball five 1 yar yards ds behind his ale orji 1 af und run ran it through a brokis kenfield bro field for a touchdown the longest run that has been made since the yard field has been in effect john barrett of washington and ald lee got a cornell kickoff kick klek off of one yard back of his own line and immediately raced down and across the ithaca goal line D J S murphy of the christian buotler brother Bf college holds the record for cor a run with an intercepted forward paa pas s III he snatched the ball on his bis own goal line when it was parsed by one of the southern tIlli college players and ran it the full length of the field tor for a score many great bottera now ast A study udy of the football records shows that the new style football has developed many great drop kickers ten years sir so go much attention was P paid aid lo 10 0 o this department it was considered si baby for or a team to try for a field gor goi when 20 to 50 60 yards from the goal line that was the era when beef and brawn pre when most teams scoffed at scoring a field goal while even evan the remotest chance remained for a touchdown but new football which has made the game one where fa fast i st tricky but light men prevail has developed punting awl aud drop kicking hicking to the highest possible standard A dozen attempts now tire are made for field goals wl one was made in the bygone days therefore many long distance drop kicks axe are being registered during duran 1015 exactly 40 field goals goala frani alib 40 yard line or better were ninde made that Is almost as al many as were accomplished jn fin ten years by the old timers who us used ed to scrimmage where nien men of today kick payne with his 63 yard boot tops topa the list of distance kickers tw for 1010 1915 wilcox follows follow with 55 yard wallop guernsey of yale who kicked 53 yards against princeton Prince tofa Is third J L cody of vanderbilt S ewing of penn state and 0 parker of du buatte are tied for fourth place with 50 yard kicks porker parker by the way booted two from that distance the others slip down from 48 yards by 0 C of purdue to 14 kicks from the 40 yard lire line made by players in different nt sections of the country aud and from the way the coaching persons talk and the do pesters dope ono one Is led to believe that the day of kicking has just begun that what was done in 1915 wont be anything remarkable in comparison with what will be accomplished plis lied this year when the gridiron stars finally unloosen their boots |