Spalding's how to play foot ball; . st at will, simply by the strengthand precision of their work, attained only through long and care-ful practice. For this reason the captain should select suchwedges as he decides are the most advantageous for his teamearly in the season, and then stick to those wedges and practicethem unfailingly day after day until every man is perfect in hispart and knows how to do that most valuable of all things in thiswork, namely push. To come to the last point of this brief summary of plays,namely, kicking. This department under the rules of 1903becomes still more im
Spalding's how to play foot ball; . st at will, simply by the strengthand precision of their work, attained only through long and care-ful practice. For this reason the captain should select suchwedges as he decides are the most advantageous for his teamearly in the season, and then stick to those wedges and practicethem unfailingly day after day until every man is perfect in hispart and knows how to do that most valuable of all things in thiswork, namely push. To come to the last point of this brief summary of plays,namely, kicking. This department under the rules of 1903becomes still more important. The special points aboutkicking will be the accurate placing of the ball and theacquirement of long-distance punting as well as place kick-ing. Kicking into touch, where admissible under the rules,should be made much more of, and it is becoming abso-lutely necessary for a team to have good punters and quick,sharp kickers in order to take advantage of certain modi-fications in the laws of the game. To go into the details of. Ho7v to Play Foot Ball. 39 these kicks would be an almost infinite task, but the captain canstudy out the situation from the following premises: A kickis absolutely necessary at kick-off, kick-out and every fair kind of a kick then will be most advantageous to his team?A short one, high, where his man can get under it, or a longdistance one giving the opponents a chance, perhaps, of return,but enabling him, if he has fast ends, to hold the ball down atthe distance of the kick? Kicking has thus come to be an absolute essential in a well-rounded team, and the style of that kicking adapted to the make-up of the individual components of that team in end rushers,tackles and backs. M||^HHHHHaHH| 3 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^BEi It 3 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bfll M gj- ^^^^^^^^^^^Hh i 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^IH 2 fe ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^?H 2 O ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H 0. H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Hy S ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B o ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H a ^^^^^^^^^^
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