Word: drop-kick
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...student body. Ecklund, whose 47-yard drop-kick against Carroll College, has made him the most featured man on the team, booted several goals from scrimmage for the benefit of the crowd at the last practice. The final line-up as it went through practice: Ends, Ecklund and Carter; tackles, Conley and Gobeen; guards, Sawyer and Kriebel; center, Kercheval; quarterback, Searing; halfbacks, Bradley and Gilbert; fullback, Dandalet
...Moore is expected to recommend that a change be made in the rule regarding the kicking of a goal after a touchdown. According to this change, which was recommended by the University football committee, the goal after a touchdown will be kicked from scrimmage formation, as a drop-kick or placement kick. Sport writers in New York expect this proposal to be adopted by the intercollegiate committee...
...also urged that a rule should be adopted making it a requirement for the goal after a touchdown to be kicked from a regular line-up, by a drop-kick or place-kick. According to this plan, the elevens would line up against each other after a touchdown, the ball would be snapped, and an attempt would be made to kick the ball over the cross-bars as if no touchdown had been made...
...Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop-kick. The ball sails squarely for the post, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-ropes. Yale kicks out, and the half terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
...half-hour scrimmage yesterday the second team scored on a composite University Team B by a drop-kick from the 37-yard line. Roscoe Fitts Unc., who has transferred from Tufts this fall, and is consequentnly ineligible for the University team, was the star of the afternoon. It was due to his brilliant run of nearly 30 yards through the University line that he was able to kick the ball over the cross...