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Word: dropkicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale's 24-yd. line, on third down, Morton decided not to gamble with the jinx. He made the dropkick that tied the score instead of trying for a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...puddled, sludgy field for a touchdown in the last five minutes. A drenched crowd of 110,000 went wild when Army blocked a Notre Dame punt and Left End King fell on it for a touchdown, but a swarm of blue shirts broke through and blocked the dropkick. Notre Dame 7. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...game through superior team-work, the teachers seemingly unable to get organized. After two long passes which had brought the teams to the faculty eight-yard line, S. C. Miller 2G.B. was sent through the center of the line for the touchdown. K. R. Ballantyne 2G.B. made the dropkick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAST AND FUTURE MEN OF BUSINESS TIE ON FIELD | 12/4/1930 | See Source »

...part by carrying and passing at the same time, similar to the way it is done in touch football but one is allowed to tackle the runner--although interference is not allowed. The scoring system reminds one of the one that was in vogue in America years ago. A dropkick,--made while the player runs down the field with the ball, stops, and kicks--counts four points, while a rush over the goal line nets the side that carried it over three points. A try after touchdown adds another two to the total. Yale played a game with a team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

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