Then, the ball had to go through the quarter's hands, and the kicker in consequence had so little time in which to get the ball away that he was really forced to kick in his tracks and immediately on receipt of the ball.
He never was a heavy man, but he was swift and slippery in running, a deadly tackler, and a kicker that had not his equal in his time.
On account of this record, he was given little or no attention at the beginning of the 1908 season, even though the one coach who had great confidence in Kennard's ability as a kicker rooted hard for him at every coaches' meeting.
Princeton's handicap when Cochran had to go out was increased by the withdrawal because of injuries of Johnny Baird, the quarterback, that wonderful drop-kicker of previous games.
He says: "It was a better team than Gordon Brown's for the reason that they had a kicker and Gordon Brown's team did not have a kicker.
In the five games won I was the regular kicker in the last three, and, in two of these, kicking proved to be the deciding factor.
I consider Alex Moffat the greatest goal kicker college football has produced.
And yet it was extremely fortunate for me that I was a left-footed kicker and thus could run away from Cowan, who played a left tackle before kicking.
Do you ask if such an ideal kicker actually exists?
Whereas the judicious kicker usually aims only at the abuses that such institutions bring with them,--unless the evils are inherent and colossal, as possibly in Tammany Hall and war and the corner saloon.
The ideal kicker is he who would improve his own condition or the condition of the town, community, age, and atmosphere in which he lives, mainly according to the light of his own generation.
The ball shall be in play when the kick is taken, and a goal may be scored from a penalty kick; but the ball shall not be again played by the kicker until it has been played by another player.
The kickershall not play the ball a second time until it has been played by another player.
A good drop kicker can be used temporarily from almost any position in the line, whether he be guard, tackle or end.
A great many games are won by a good drop kicker making a field goal at a critical time, and such a man is of the highest value to a team.
Oiling is generally applied either before drying after tanning, or after drying, the oiled skins being placed in a kicker and tramped to cause the oil to penetrate.
On getting the ball back to the kicker Crane was inclined to be erratic, but so far had not sinned many times.
Any save ordinary passes to quarter orkicker were beyond Crane, and so most of the direct passes were eliminated.
He is a rare tackler, sometimes a little rough, but the finest kicker in front of a besieged goal I have ever seen.
Ker was a grand back and beautiful kicker with his left foot, he was also an accomplished dribbler.
He used both feet with equal freedom, and was decidedly the cleanest kicker that ever played in the Vale of Leven.
He was a fine kicker with either foot, and his tackling was severe, but honest and clean.
As a brilliant tackler and neatkicker at half-back, it might honestly be said of him that he had no equal.
A point is scored whenever a kicker succeeds in sending the ball beyond his opponents' line-up.
The players are divided into two equal teams, each of which selects a kicker for the ball.
The kicker for each team stands five feet within his half of the ground measuring from the center, and should be halfway between the two side boundary lines.
To ride a kicker in the hunting-field is highly injudicious and unfair.
A kicker is not a pleasant mount for a lady, and the powers which some animals possess in this especial line are simply astonishing.
A horse can hop on three legs, if not severely pressed, for two or three miles; and no plan is more successful for curing a kicker or jibber.
Wheeler disposed his protection for the kickerwith great care, for on the success of the play hung the issue of the day.
The protection for the kicker formed quickly, and then came the signal.
Jimmy can't play all the game behind the line, and Frank the Drop Kicker hasn't grown up yet into the husky giant that you are, Turner.
If he fidgets, you will find a long day on his back most fatiguing, and should he be a kicker your enjoyment will be marred.
A kicker can often be stopped by a sharp hit on the ears.
The long poker shot out, and the point must have hit hard in the temple; at any rate, the wounded Kickersat down.
His bucket, however, stretched one Kicker flat before he had time to defend himself.
The remaining Kicker risked still one more light, but on seeing his disabled pals, he made for the door.
It was an oblique slant, and only a clever kicker could succeed, with that baffling wind against him.
With the halfback down flat and holding the oval, and the kicker with one eye on the ball and the other on the tacklers just breaking through it is not the easiest thing in the world to do.
The motives of such taps are of course entirely different from the dangerous malevolence that prompts a confirmed kicker to "lash out" at horse or man who comes within striking distance.
I once had the misfortune to see a man's leg broken by a vicious kicker in Leicestershire.
The most awkward kicker I ever rode was a mountain Zebra (Fig.
The top-kicker later came around and said, "I've been looking all over for you, Canwick.
But the top-kicker was a little late, and the result was that the inspecting officer had reached the bottom of the ladder by the time Ben rolled out.
Just after I left for the General's the top-kicker announced that the C.
And the top-kicker lined them all up and led the way to the sick-bay, where they were duly looked over by a captain in the Medical Corps.
You could see that the top-kicker didn't like the idea at all, and the rest of us couldn't begin to express our thoughts.
He was lying on his bunk, having a beautiful spree with his cud when the top-kicker called "attention" for inspection.
The captain wheeled about and continued his tour, but Ben was shivering for days for fear the top-kicker would favor him with a detail on Kitchen Police or "head orderly," neither of which were very easy on the stomach.
One reason for this was that we had no sooner begun to take life easy in our new quarters than Chilblaines appeared on the scene without any warning and told the top-kicker he had come over to see that the men got a work-out.
One didn't stand a chance when the Kicker got after him.
Why don't you fire up the gasolinekicker for now and I'll fix the line when I get through here," he said.
Well, I just filled the kicker with it by accident, and man, you orter hear that engine run," Barney exclaimed.
You have become a great doubter andkicker of late, Diamond.
Harry got into the sailboat along with the kicker and remained there.
The kicker obeyed, and was just about to step back into the launch, when Old King Brady, ordering him to remain where he was, he sat down on the big tin box.
Making fast to the boat, the kicker sprang aboard and lowered the sail.
He was too light to make much headway in bucking plays, and his inability to start quickly handicapped him frequently in running; but as a kicker he was dependable and had developed a quite remarkable accuracy at forward passing.
Then the Morgan's drop-kicker moved back to the twenty-yard line and well to the left of centre, and centre stood sidewise as though to make an oblique pass.
Harris was a left-foot kicker and was accustomed to taking a pretty long stride to the left side before he swung.
He was bung up and bilge free--and that's why he's chief kicker now.
Matt was now past twenty; and, though not fully filled out, he was big enough to be a chief kicker anywhere.
I believe we have unearthed a kicker who can take your place in an emergency," he said, exultantly.
Coach Little recognized in Billings the best kicker in the school.
Why, Mister Little, that fellow's on the way to being the best kicker Trumbull High's ever had!
