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...long enough. The backs should be out on the field practising kicking every afternoon long before the eleven arrives. Then too the goal kicking must be improved. It is disheartening to work hard for a touchdown and then lose the goal. Nothing discourages an eleven like that. The goal kicker must make himself as sure as he possibly can by constant, unflagging practice...
...allowance must be made to our correspondent from Princeton for college feeling and college pride. Nevertheless, we can easily gather from his letter that Princeton is making a tremendous "brace" for the championship at football. Her men are working hard and if, as he says, Moffat, their wonderful kicker, who is now a post-graduate, should consent to play, their team would indeed be a strong one, and one which our eleven will have hard work to defeat. His opinion of Yale is clearly partisan. But even he admits that Yale is playing an active game and the large scores...
...Richards, '85. Yale's famous goal kicker, has been appointed captain of the football team for next year...
...Saturday afternoon, while playing football, E. S. Richards, '85, the Yale goal kicker and halfback, was seriously injured. He was thrown in a scrimmage and wrenched and bruised his kneepad in such a manner that he had to be carried from the field. He will probably be unable to play again this season. This is a great loss to Yale as Richards is one of the best goal kickers in the country...
...goal from a touchdown six. In case of a tie on other points, if one side makes two safeties more than the other they lose the game. Two warnings disqualfy instead of three, and tackling in "fair" invariably brings a warning. In punting out from a touchdown the kicker is allowed six feet on the goal line. Mr. Peace endeavored to bring Princeton's claim of a drawn game with Harvard into the convention, but the motion to introduce it was lost...