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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Drop Kicks, Return Kicks, and Free Kicks
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 15:32:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 15:32:48 1986
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In article <2764@sunybcs.UUCP> ugclemon@sunybcs.UUCP (Robert Clemons) writes:
>     We have all heard the football play-by-play men bring up the
>possibility of a team staging a free kick to get 3 points.  I have never
>seen this done successfully.  To kick a free kick you have to either
>give up a safety or fair catch a punt.  When a team punts from deep in
>their end with seconds to go in a half, invariably Marv Albert will call
>for a fair catch so the receiving team can try for a 40 yard field goal
>with no chance of blockage.  This never works.  Has anyone out there
>ever seen this happen?
>
>     We all saw the drop-kick successfully accomplished in that big-screen
>classic "The Longest Yard".  I understand in the past the drop-kick was
>an important weapon in a team's scoring arsenal.  Nowadays the only way
>I could imagine a team accomplishing a drop-kick is for a punter to 
>fumble the snap, let it bounce, and boot it into the jet stream so that
>it carries 75 yards through the uprights.  This may be possible in 
>Buffalo, but never in a domed stadium.  If there are any real football
>stat fanatics out there, I would like to know when the last drop-kick
>was successfully accomplished and who did it.

Back in the late 60's or early 70's, the Bears and the Packers used one of
these (I don't remember which) in the two games they played against each
other, in each case winning the game on the play.  I don't know the year,
and I don't know if this was the last time the play was used successfully.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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