Thanks. I was in Junior High in the late 1940’s and we had the older rounder footballs. We still practised the kick. By the time I got to high school we were using the football as it is currently shaped. The only faulty memory I had about the kick was if sucessful it gave your team two points, and that it could be made from anywhere on the field. Apparently, both those memories were incorrect. The kick must be made from behind the line of scrimmage and if successful gives one’s team three points.
With the return of the wildcat you would assume some of these other traditional strategies would make a comeback.