Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University football team, is playing in the backfield of the University eleven for the third successive season. Last year and the year before he played right halfback, while this season he has been moved to fullback. His brilliant open-field work, combined with exceptional ability in both drop-kicking and punting, has earned him a position on practically every All-American eleven that has been selected during the past two seasons...
...spirit and a good kicking game, and, what is perhaps most fundamentally requisite, came forward with the ability to follow the ball. In the way of an offense, the Elis indeed had little, simply a few variations of the old Minnesota shift, but Princeton overconfidence and Guernsey's drop-kicking made an offence practically unnecessary. The main point is, that what Yale did show in the game was good. The Yale line, given a simpler method of interference, showed the ability to be of great aid to its backfield, while the backs impressively demonstrated that they had been carefully drilled...
...goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field. Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop kick. The ball sails squarely for the post, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-ropes. Yale kicks out and the half-hour terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
...practice today consisted simply of a fast signal drill. Guernsey was given a short work-out at drop-kicking and performed consistently well. The coaches announced today that Allen would start the Harvard game at end-rush instead of Weidman, as the latter's injury will keep him out of the contest...
...preliminary drill consisted of starting practice for the ends and linemen and place-kicking for the backs, at which four squads worked out from all possible angles of the field. The next in order was a shift to drop-kicking for the backs, and a series of Yale plays staged by the seconds for the ends and linemen. The surprise of the day came when Coach Haughton led his squad of coaches against Team A for an 8-minute scrimmage, in which King, after a long series of line plays from the middle of the field, scored a touchdown from...