Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long range kicking contest more than a soccer match as the Crimson attack limited itself to six shots at the Blue goal, spending most of the 80 minutes making unaimed down field kicks. Despite the fact that the Yardling defense worked brilliantly, Yale scored because it controlled the ball for the entire game. The freshmen took only two shots during the second half...
...second half club, the freshmen have improved considerably since the days of early season difficulties; they have gone undefeated in their last six games. Coach Guyda has commented on this rise in fortune with two explanations: the Yardings have finally learned to "beat the other team to the ball," and they have built up their passing game by "keeping the ball on the carpet...
However, things were not always this way. In the days when "a particularly desperate scrimmage flattened the ball into a disk of limp rubber"--in the days when the New York Times said that the "Harvard punting was immense, the handling of kicks without a flaw, the plunging irresistable and the end running brilliant, all in the same game," students were "football-conscious." Old CRIMSONS report that in 1909 over 1500 students cheered the scrimmage the week before the Yale game...
...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game
Johnson again proved to be the key to the Crimson attack when he picked up a loose ball 60 seconds later and back passed to halfback Jim Callahan. Callahan then lifted the ball over both Tufts fullbacks to Dana Getchell; Getchell passed to Bengt Sandberg at center forward, who promptly tallied his fourth goal of the season...