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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 102G football season will uncover. Thlrleen years ago, Mark Payne, a halfback on the Dakota Wesleyan university uni-versity football team, made a 63-yard dropklck against Northern Normal of Aberdeen, S. D., on the hitter's field, and none of the phenoms 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 a CU-yard droplock which Pat O'Dea of Wisconsin made against Northwestern Northwest-ern In 1S9S. But since 1904 only three men have made u dropkick from behind the fifty-four-yard line. Robertson of Dartmouth dropkicked 54 yards against Cornell in 1919, and Lament Johnson of St. Mary's college, Kansas, dropkicked 55 yards in 1925. |