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Mercein, the Elis' leading rusher and kicker, pulled a hamstring muscle reaching for a pass, and is now in the Yale infirmary...
...missed two extra points and eight out of 15 field goal attempts. Things are no better in the American Football League. After they barely edged Houston, 20-17, missing three field goals in the process, the A.F.L. Champion San Diego Chargers started looking around for a new place kicker. And whom did they come up with? Ben Agajanian, 45, a toeless wonder (he lost four toes on his kicking foot in an elevator accident) who had bounced around 14 pro teams before retiring for the third time last year...
...most exciting kicker of the year does everything wrong too-but makes it work right. A Hungarian refugee who boots the ball soccer-styleoff the instep of his right foot-Pete Gogolak of the Buffalo Bills has hit on 31 out of 32 extra points, 11 out of 18 field goals...
Princeton and Maryland have soccer kickers too, and Coach Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State has imported a barefoot kicker from Hawaii named Dick Kenney. Kenney kicks the ball off the end of-his bare toes. "I can tell if it's good by the way the shock goes up my leg," he says. He tied a Michigan State record by booting...
Harvard's other casualties, place-kicker Maury Dullea and quarterback John McCluskey, should be ready to go against Princeton. Dullea actually did the kicking against Penn after the first three touchdowns, despite a serious ankle injury. All three of his kicks were good, though the first two were lowtrajectory boots that barely scraped inside the right crossbar. He should be in better shape this Saturday...