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== This page should not be speedy deleted because...It is accurately compiled and has no intentional double meanings. please advise. stab punt jim at johnsonjim177@gmail.com  kind regards Jim Johnson aged 81 years ==

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) because...It is accurately compiled and has no intentional double meanings. please advise. stab punt jim at johnsonjim177@gmail.com   kind regards Jim Johnson aged 81 years--124.190.2.168 (talk) 18:32, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

== This page should not be speedy deleted because. It is actual and factual. I have deleted much that was not needed.

STAB KICK TO STAB PUNT BY A SCHOOL BOY IN May 1949. " And published, james johnson 9 August, 2013 11:03 as a reply in The history of Australian Rules Football: Museum Victoria https://museumvictoria.com.au/.../the-history-of-australian-rules-football/

Young footballer invents new kick to counter muddy conditions In 1949 15-year-old Jim Johnson and his older brother Charlie joined Mt Evelyn Football Club, Second XVIII. Mt Evelyn Football Ground’s surface was then uneven and often very muddy. Studying the Sporting Globe Football Book (1948), Jim Johnson adapted Jack Dyer’s ‘crazy’ Drop-Punt … ‘the silliest looking kick in football history’ (p.49) into an effective Drop- Punt (field pass) and later invented a Stab Punt (pass), both kicks being suitable to Mt Evelyn’s mud. These kicks were able to be kicked at full pace with accuracy; they are in constant use today in Australian Rules football. Playing just three games, Jim won the 1949 Second-Best-and-Fairest trophy (The T.O. Millard Trophy). Theo Millard (Jim’s uncle) was Mt Evelyn’s major employer at Millards’ Timber and Trading. Jim, 157.5cm and weighing 51kg, was promoted to the first XVIII, winning the umpire’s vote for best player on three occasions; joined Ringwood Football Club as First Rover for the First XVIII in 1950; and in 1960 played in a Premiership team for Croydon. ‘Johnson was outstanding in the mud with clever turning and accurate disposal.’ The Ringwood Mail, August 1951. Journalists had trouble finding the correct name for Johnson’s Stab Punt. ‘Johnson sent his delightful little drop punt pass direct to Manfield’. Frank Casey, The Post, September 8, 1960. ‘Johnson should write a book on stab kicking – he has found the lost art’. Davey Crocket, The Ringwood Mail, September 8, 1960. From Helen Johnson Jim Johnson’s story appears in the ‘Face to Face’ exhibition at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum. Jim also donated the concert program signed by Melba, part of our display ‘The Mitchells in Mt Evelyn’ at the Exhibition Space. . Jim Johnson (right) with brother Charlie at Yarra Glen oval, 7 May 1949. Things Past Newsletter 44 October 2011 Mount Evelyn History Group Inc Page 3.

The above published as a comment from The history of Australian Rules Football: Museum Victoria. james johnson 9 August, 2013 11:03

“THE SCIENCE OF KICKING” published 2007. THE STAB PUNT: The authors have coined the term “ stab punt” because it describes perfectly the mechanics of this shorter-range and highly accurate pass. It should not be confused with the “stab kick, a drop kick popularized by players like Bob Skilton (1960’s) and Thorold Merrett (1950s). While similar to a drop punt it never-the less has several defining characteristics that give it a distinctive flavor and purpose. It is not designed for maximum distance and accordingly the player uses a variation in drop punt technique with a limited backswing and minimal follow through. It is a kick in which a rapid punching action is applied to the ball the aim being to pass the ball as quickly and as accurately as possible to a teammate. Page 64 & 65 of “THE SCIENCE OF KICKING”! 1st Edition Geoffrey Hosford. & Don Meikle published 2007 by B.I.P.E. Publications Pty Ltd. Forward David Parkin.

Jim Johnson aged 14 and a third Form student said to himself that by using the normal approach for kicking a drop kick he must be able to get connection of boot and ball that will give the same resulting action of the ball through the air as Dyer's set shot drop punt for goal. So Jim revamped it into his own format. He kicked the ball at about the same distance from the ground as a normal drop kick so making it into a field kick that could be used running at full pace in any weather or field conditions. k. It took Jim half a season to revamp the drop kick into a drop punt that he was able to kick on the run at pace as a field kick/pass. Jim managed to do this with only kicks won on the school ground in what was called “kick-to-kick”. It took Jim around two months to master it with these very limited number of kicks per day and with none at the weekend. He scrubbed the ball along the ground, kick after kick, after kick, attempting nothing else until he succeeded in getting the right connection. Jim turned his drop kick into a field pass kicked at up to full pace in general play. Small above extract is from the 5436 word document on The Mount Evelyn Football Club site. See"MEFNC-Changes"on Googall. which also includes A Club Video of Jim Johnson being interviewed by the then Club President.

Recently traced a notice in the Melbourne AGE, page 26, bottom right corner, on Thursday the 26th of July, 1990.

“STAB PUNT. The Inventor of the Stab Punt (1949) is interested in hearing from anyone who used this kick pre 1970.Ph. 8743622,” This notice appeared on the Sports Page that had an article by David Parkin on the Torpedo Punt.

See “The First Drop Punt. Recent research from a kick historian.“ as published in the Footy Almanac of the 26th June 2015.

The above is stating history as I have found and experienced it. In my eleven years of playing First Eighteen Australian Rules Football from 15 to 27 years of age, 1949-1960, I did not ever play for money and the above is strictly factual and has not been written for anything but accurate education.

I have sent much information to! Mr.David Studham, Melbourne Cricket Club Librarian, Collingwood Football Club Archive Committee. Mr.John Harms of The Footy Almanac.

Kind Regards Jim Johnson johnsonjim177@gmail.com