Word: kickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of the Princeton players the accepted masters in the art of the drop-kick, could boot field goals from any angle or from the 47 yard line. One of the backs would lie full-length on the ground, while the kicker would take on step up and place the ball squarely between the crossbars...
...Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
...Purple's biggest offensive gun, if he is sufficiently recovered from the Working over he absorbed in the Villanova tiff last week. He is a rocking power runner who will also take plenty of chasing if he gets into the secondary, and his ability as a passer and a kicker make him even more dangerous...
...wingback, and Wizbicki, a substitute before the war, is a much improved ball player. This group is bolstered by Stove Conroy, last year's signal-caller; John Comer, an excellent forward passer and newcomer to the Cross; Gene DeFillippe, another passer who is also the Crusaders' number one place-kicker; and Walt Sheridan, highly touted Freshman triple threat who may be sufficiently healed to make his seasonal debut on Saturday...
...lose the ball on interceptions. A good coffin corner kick by Giby Warren late in the final period set up the safety, the Jayvees' fourth in three games. There was a bad pass from center to the Wentworth punter in the end zone, and center Bob Grady dropped the kicker for the final two-pointer...