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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

FUNDAMENTALS STRESSED IN FROSH SESSIONS
STATE, CONFERENCE
BOBBY JONES TO PLAY
Play the Game Right! EXHIBITION
TITLES AIM OF
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(By JIMMY

TIPS ON FOOTBALL STRATEGY AND TACTICS
ERNEST NEVERS, Stanford
All those things helped, and enabled
University Fullback)
me to make my last year at Stanford
much my best in kicking.
"Hey, there,
There are right and wrong methods
Do that
Nevers!
do it of bucking the line, too. For instance
over and
I used to have a habit of keeping my
right!"
like head down not only when I hit the
A
hail
had passed
that was a thing I line, but after II 'discovered it. That
that if I
used to hear pretty was wrong.
kept bent over a fullback should have
often when I start
ed to play football his back parallel to the ground when
my
I had a lot of foot- he smashes the line I soon lost
moball faults, and I balance and fell over of my own
had to dig in and mentum. I saw several other backs
I with that fault, too.
correct them.
So I learned, as soon as I had
believed that any- hnrlv can learn to passed the first defense line, to
slral-htc- n
up. In that way I was
EfcklEST MEUERS
do 'a thing right,
I wasthough, so I kept trying. And in able to keep going as long as
n't tackled.
every case I found a better way.
The right kind of footwork is imKicking was one of the things that
high school and portant in line plunging. A back may
was hard for me in
early college years. I did a lot of assume any position he chooses for
things wrong. So I got coaches to his start crouching like a sprinter,
nearly upright.
help me, and here are some of the or hands on knees, or
Most players believe, as I do, in startthings I learned to do:
ing with the ball. I've seen some
Keep my leg straight,, kicking from backs wmT wait until the ball reaches
the hip instead of the knee so as to them before they start running; it
get the full leverage.
seems to. me that they put themKick easily, not with all my selves at a disadvantage. A line
strength; depend on right timing plunger has to be going at top speed
rather than brute power to give my when he hits the line, and the sooner
punts 'distance.
he hits the line, and the sooner he
Hit the ball squarely with the broad gets there, and the harder he smashes,
side of my foot, and always in the the better his chance.
So I always
same way.
get into motion at once, catch the ball
Take a kick calmly and fairly
on the run, and bend for the crash at
the line.
Two footwork rules for a plunging
back are these: Take short, fast
steps; and keep your feet slightly
spread, rather than together. Both
of these tricks help you to hold your
balance when somebody crashes into
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While the Kittens, of 1926 have been using most of
time since they reported last Monday in drilling on fundamentals under the watchful eyes of Coach Ray Eklund, M. E.
Poter, Bill Hansen, Jim Thompson and "Sarge" Kennedy, it
appears from looking over the men at work and considering
somewhat the high school records of the various candidates that
they will make a strong bid for the state and probably 'the Southern Conference frosh titles this year.
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When one glances over the list of
candidates prepared by "Daddy" Boles Southern championship Qenti-team
and sees the names of such high and of year before last is Will Ed's broth-pre- p
school luminaries as Irvin Jef-- er, and one is reminded very vividly
fries, the Miller boys, Harvey Stone, of him by the. way the kid brother
Covington, Franklin, Cummins, and 70 twists and turns in avoiding tacklers.
others, any of whom may prove to be
The KiUen 8chedule th!s
as .good as the ones mentioned bove,
is one of ttl. mnst nmIt inn in
tmngs oegin to taKeon a rosy glow.
the history of the school.
Naturally boys from the Blue Grass
Though they are limited to five
and Louisville sections of the state
games by the conference ruling of
are more heralded for their football
last" year every game on the card
ability than are those from the more
is one to prepare well for.
remote districts, but if some of the4 The opening game of the season
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local anu near stars uon i iuok 10
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their laurels there are several boys when the Kittens jo
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Nashville
from the sticks who are going to to meet the Vanderbilt yearlintrs.
string posi- "Ek" says that the Vandy scouts
make them hustle for first
tions.
worked hard all summer rounding up
What About Covington?
high school stars and that from adWill Ed Covington, who hails from vance reports they really have the
Mayfield, the home of more than one, goods, t
On October 23 Georgetown will en-- 1
football player, is being
watched by the followers of the game deavor to duplicate its feat of last
and this early in the year looks as 'year in a game on Stoll Field which
if he might give a good account of '
himself. "Flash" Covington, of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
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For ten yards a back should keep
going at the very greatest speed he
can muster. I say ten yards because
it isn't often a plunger can go through
the secondary defense and make more
than that distance. I usually plan on
using my best strength for ten yards;
then if I get that far, I can suit my
speed to the situation.
I safd that I have always believed
in working on weaknesses that I've
found out it's easy to do a thing that
comes natural, but that it's the things
that, are not natural that get a fellow into trouble. Like a lot of heavy
backs, I found that shifty
and changes of direction, after I'd

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Bobby Jones, world's greatest golfer, will arrive in Lexington this morning' for his exhibition match at the
Ashland Golf Club Saturday morning
for the benefit of the Children's Home,
it was announced by Scott Hudson,
former Lexington trotting horse man,
who was instrumental in getting Jones
to come here.
Jones will be accompanied by his
youthful playing partner, Watts Gunn,
and his mother, Mrs. R. P. Jones.
The party will be met at the Union
Station and taken to the Phoenix hotel

for breakfast. Afterwards, an automobile tour of the stock farms and
other places of interest will be takea
under the direction of Mr. Hudson,
who arrived here Monday to attend
the Trots.
The exhibition match will start at
10 o'clock Saturday morning. It was
made known that the affair will be
a foursome, Gayle Alexander, prominent Lexington golfer and former central Kentucky champion, to play with
Bobby Jones, against Watts Gunn and
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passed the scrimmage line, were hard
for men. So I practiced on those
points. Afternoon-lon- g
I side stepped and dodged
and shifted and
changed direction. Again I'found the
practice helpful; I learned, eventually,
to be able to do something beside plow
straight ahead.
There are lots of other things the
heavy plunging back must learn. He
must keep his eyes open that sounds
like odd advice, doesn't it? I mean
I've known
it literally, though.
plenty of men who actually shut their
eyes when they hit the line. Naturally that's bad business. If there's
a hole at all, it's open for just one
instant, and a back must be able to
pick the hole and the instant just
right if he's to get through.
He must learn the right kind of
straight-arminHe must carry the
ball tucked in against his body, where
it can't be knocked out. At Stanford
we had one man who had a hard time
to get over the habit of carrying the
ball like a loaf of bread he'd been a
a Rugby player. The back must
propteach himself, too, to
erly.
means gathering
all your strength at just the right
moment, using it to exactly the best
advantage instantaneously "arranging" muscles when you're about to
Some
crash into an opponent.
coaches say it can't be taught it just
has to come to a man! Anyway, it's
a thing to remember.
And it goes without saying that a
back must use his interference proppr-land keep going until (he's pinned
tight to earth, and learn to fall toward his enemy's goal, not away
from it.
But the most important thing in
football, it seems to me, is this
work on your weaknesses. If you do
that, and keep in trim, you are going
to develop as a gridiron athlete.
The American Boy

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TOMORROW

Jim Strauss
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