Word: drop-kicker
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...ruggers' celebration proved a bit premature when UMass drove down the field to within 20 yards from the Crimson line. An attempted drop-kick went wide, but the referee called a penalty on a Crimson late hit. With time running out, the UMass kicker calmly booted the game-winner, and Harvard lost only its second game out of the last...
...number of the Princeton players the accepted masters in the art of the drop-kick, could boot field goals from any angle or from the 47 yard line. One of the backs would lie full-length on the ground, while the kicker would take on step up and place the ball squarely between the crossbars...
Wisconsin alumni were given a rare Homecoming. In the stands as guest of honor was Patrick John O'Dea, Wisconsin captain in 1898 and 1899, often considered the greatest kicker the game ever developed. Most prodigious feat: in the 1898 game against Northwestern, played in a raging blizzard, he sent a drop-kick between goalposts 62 yd. away. Originally an Australian rugby player, O'Dea disappeared in 1919, was supposed to have joined Australian troops, been killed in action in France. Two months ago in California he revealed his identity to newshawks, explained his assumption of another name...
...Harvard was lucky to beat Princeton on more than one occasion. Of these pre-war games the 1911 defeat was one of the most exciting games ever played. The Harvard team was lined up on the right side of the field planning a drop-kick but failed to protect the drop-kicker, Paul Hollister '14, sufficiently, and Hart, Princeton's captain-end, who was playing with a broken neck, blocked the kick. White picked up the ball, and won the game by an 80 yard run. The very next week against Yale. White turned the same trick...
...pinch-kicker named Curley alone saved Chicago from disaster at the hands and shoulders of Ohio State, which until the last minute of play seemed imminent. Curley's drop-kick crossed the bar, kept Chicago in the conference running. Score: Chicago 3, Ohio...