Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both teams like to move the ball. The Crimson has slugged out more yardage (1385) in seven games this fall than Dick Harlow's 1947 team gained in nine and has scored at least one touchdown every Saturday...
...Yale's ball-carriers, principally Levi Jackson, Bull Nadherny, and Tex Furse (remember?), are good, too. Jackson goes through a line faster than you can split an infinitive, and he's dynamite in an open field. He's clicked off 794 yards so far this season, ranking number 17 nationally on total offense. His 41-yard punt average also makes him the country's number 10 booter...
Rules in those days varied with each team. Magenta sports editors were a little confused about the rules on "players picking up the ball and then being chased." But even without Bill Bingham, rules and regulations were soon worked...
Starting right off in the first quarter, the Deacons carried the ball 70 yards down the field on a powerful sustained march, the first time they got hold of it. Sam Cantwell scored and the extra point was made on one of the Kirkland specialties: a fake placement, with an end run, finally ending with a pass deep into the end zone...
Eliot drove downfield as the period ended, only to lose the ball on downs. Jonathan Edwards roared all the way back in seven plays to score on a nine-yard end sweep by Stodgehill...