Football

When restrictions were lifted from the use of the forward pass 20 years ago, the pass began to supplant the dropkick as a scoring maneuver. When the goal posts were moved 10 yd. behind the goal line (so that scrimmaging players would not crash into them) the field goal, especially the dropkick, became more difficult and rare. Last year only four field goals were dropkicked in major intercollegiate foot-ball.š Last week saw the beginning of what may be a dropkick renaissance. The National Professional League, believing that the dropkick makes a faster, more spectacular game with less chance of tied scores, restored the goal posts to the goal line this season. And to school a new generation of footballers in a forgotten art, the League's New York Giant team opened a dropkicking tournament for high-school boys. Objective: a trophy posted by the most famed living dropkicker, Charles E. Brickley. In one season at Harvard (where he played 1911-14) Footballer Brickley kicked 34 of 37 attempted field goals. He kicked five in a single game against Yale.** Now he runs a Manhattan gymnasium for flabby businessmen, but his delight is helping a Westchester County lawyer named LeRoy N. Mills, a punting specialist, in a free "coaching clinic" for schoolboys at Scarsdale, N. Y. Like Lawyer Mills, Mr. Brickley has developed many a crack kicker, notably his Son Charles Jr. ("Chick"), 13, a sophomore at Bronxville

High School. When Chick was 6, his fa ther began teaching him to kick. Last year Chick gave an exhibition between halves of the California-St. Mary's game, kicked 108 consecutive goals from the 10 yd. line (20 yd. from the goal posts). His Brother Bud, 12, is less interested, less proficient. Between halves of last week's game at the Polo Grounds, in which the New York Giants swamped the Philadelphia Eagles 56-to-0, Father & Son Brickley started the schoolboy kicking carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High School qualify for the finals Dec. 3 by booting four out of five over the cross bar. Major college football games last week: Virginia returned from its humiliation (75-to-0) by Ohio State, to rock a strong Columbia team to its heels. It outplayed Columbia throughout the first half, led 6-to-0. Then Columbia's Captain Cliff Montgomery rallied his team to victory, racing brilliantly for two touchdowns and making possible a field goal, 15-to-6. Fullback Regeczi started things early for Michigan by galloping 77 yd. through Cornell for a touchdown. Halfback Everhardus had to run only 52 yd. through tackle for the next one, but followed with one from 85 yd. Michigan went over, around and through Cornell's line about as it pleased before it was done, 40-to-0 The "strongest Stanford team since the days of Ernie Nevers" journeyed to Chicago, plowed to Northwestern's 1-yd. line where the half-time gun stopped it, went home sharing a 0-to-0 tie. St. Mary's was the last team to beat Southern California, back in 1931. When they met again last week Left End Can-rinus, who made the winning touchdown two years ago, snagged a 50-yd. forward pass to tie the score in the second period. Then Southern California battered St. Mary's back to its 23-yd. line and St. Mary's sent in a substitute guard. Green and nervous, the substitute immediately began chatting with his teammates--for-bidden before the ball was in play. The referee moved the ball to the 8-yd. line whence one play won the game for Southern California, 14-to-7. During the game Southern California was penalized 50 yd., St. Mary's nearly 100 yd. for roughing. Until the middle of the second period the game Navy team occasionally harassed big, strong Pitt. Then Pitt's Halfback Sebastian coolly dropped back to his own loyd. line, fired a forward pass 60 yd. down the field. Five fast, crashing plays set Fullback Izzy Weinstock over the Navy line for the first of five touchdowns. Impotent against Pitt's massive line, Navy filled the sky with forward passes, completed only nine out of 31, managed to score once on a Pitt bungle, 34-to-6. Spectators were astonished to find the Yale team wearing white jerseys instead of traditional blue (so they would not toss passes to the blue-clad Washington & Lee players); were less astonished to see Yale outrush its opponents 14-to-0. Princeton worked on Williams like the answer to the composite prayer of all football coaches everywhere. Nearly every play and formation, from spinners to end runs, clicked with beautiful precision for total gains of 440 yd. The defense cut Williams' rushes to 19 yd. Sophomores made all but one of Princeton's touchdowns, 45-to-0. A fiery little Duke team dealt Tennessee its first drubbing in 27 games, 10-to-2. Notre Dame's green battering-ram out-rammed Indiana 223 yd. to 30 yd. but was held to two touchdowns, 12-to-2. To practically everyone's astonishment, Illinois punched three touchdowns through Wisconsin, the prettiest being a 74-yd. sprint by Halfback Les Lindberg. 21-to-0. Tulane quit fumbling in time to whip Maryland 20-to-0. The fact that it outplayed Georgia Tech, failed to save Auburn from its first beating (16-to-6) since 1931. Purdue gazed in bewilderment at Minnesota's forward passes, finally grabbed one in the last period in time to save itself, 7-to-7. Pennsylvania fumbled itself out of anything better than a 9-to-0 score against a far weaker Franklin & Marshall Team. ^

šThe first dropkick field goal in ten years of Pacific Coast Conference play was scored fortnight ago by University of California-at-Los Angeles in a 21-to-0 victory over Utah. **Record for dropkick goals in a single game: 17, booted by Forest Peters, Montana freshman in 1924.

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