Distancle doesn't bother Pirmann. "Whether it's outside the 30 or not doesn't matter to me," he said. "If it goes, it goes."

His teammates' attitude toward his kicking may not be so casual in a tight situation, but for the moment he says, "They'd rather have me than not have me."

Pirmann is involved in a bare minimum of contact. The only time an opposing lineman broke through on an extra point this year, Pirmann "gave him a little nudge."

Because he has no football experience, he yields to Adams on kickoffs. "I don't know the first thing aboutspying, He has field a complaint with tackling," Pirmann admitted.

There is one thing certain in Pirmann's mind, though-he is a soccer player first. He practices with the soccer team daily, then goes to the football practice field to kick for about 15 minutes.

At the outset, Pirmann discussed his gridiron moonlighting with soccer coach George Beim, and Beim gave him his blessings. If it were a choice between soccer and football, however, Pirmann would not hesitate to abandon football.

There has already been one conflict this year when the soccer team was playing Amherst in Hanover and the football team was away at Holy Cross.

Fly Me to New Haven

Blackman solved that problem by flying Pirmann to Holy Cross after the soccer game, in a private plane, and he will use the same method for transporting him to a slightly more important contest on Oct. 31 in New Haven.

The opponent that day is Yale, and the outcome will probably decide the Ivy championship. Dartmouth will surely be going for touchdowns on fourth downs in the first quarter because Pinmann will not arrive until midway through the second period.

This crucial venture generates all sorts of wild fantasies a la Frank Merriweather. The scenario has to emerge of a packed Yale Bowl, a tie game in the final minute of play and Wayne Pirmann running out of the locker room after being snowbound in Hanover for two hours.

Pirmann kicks a field goal, Dartmouth wins the game and the Ivy championship. "I don't have nightmares about that kind of thing," Pirmann said Wednesday. "But it would be pretty cool."