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Coach Fisher feels that in view of the new rule covering the method by which an additional point may be made after a touchdown, will increase the importance of developing drop-kickers. To stimulate interest in this department of the game Coach Fisher plans to hold a kicking competition during the last week of spring practice. Prizes will be awarded the best punter, drop-kicker, and kicker...
...same fighting offence and defence which has characterized Coach Roper's teams in past seasons. Several men showed that they can well fill the gaps in the Orange and Black ranks, and this, more than anything else is encounraging to the Princeton supporters. Vangerbig proved himself a formidable kicker and an effective runner. Smith, an untried back, performed exceedingly well under pressure, showing that he can be used as a line-plunger when necessity arises...
...best punter on the Crimson squad Percy Jenkins'24 has won for the present Chapin's berth as right halfback on Team A. In the Holy Cross game Jenkins substituted for Fitts and made several ground-gaining runs, one of nearly 20 yards. He is also a good drop-kicker. It was Jenkins who last year in the yearling game with Princeton 1924 tied the score with a field goal with less than a minute to play...
...made from scrimmage formation; with the defense allowed only seven men in the line. The result of this change would be more development in drop-kicking, and also in team play. This would even things up a great deal, for a team which, if it had no good kicker, under the present rules would be greatly handicapped, and perhaps lose games by the score of 7-6, would be able, by aggressive playing in the kicking scrimmage, to rattle the opposing kicker, and thus remove any advantage which the other team has in this particular. Personally I am in favor...
Under this rule, based on the above reasoning, the goal from touchdown has proved rather unsatisfactory. Games have been lost through a miscue by a nervous kicker or holder of the ball, and the rest of the team has had to see their efforts at team work successful at reaching the correct goal in view--the touchdown--nullified by one individual's failure to kick a tying or winning goal. That the kicking of the goal is quite inconsistent with the team play that is the essence of football, is in no way better shown than by the action...