Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 almost runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop kick. The ball sails squarely for the posts, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-rope. Yale kicks out and the half-hour terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
Guernsey kicked off to behind Hardwick caught ball and carried fifteen yards. Brickley carried yards. made fair catch on Harvard's 18-yard line. Mahan punted to Ainsworth on Harvard's 48-yard line, tackled by O'Brien. Ainsworth made one yard, tackled by Storer. Guernsey failed in attempted drop from 47-yard line. Harvard's ball on 20-yard line...
Kicking also came in for its share of attention. Brickley seemed in his usual form, which Coach Haughton also made some remarkably accurate experimental drop-kicks form the 20-yard line. At punting, Mahan kicked high, giving the ends time to cover the fields, and securing his average distance. The kicking seemed entirely satisfactory...
...wonderful back-field, yet one which is powerless without support from the line, for there is neither a Wendell nor a Streit in the trio to gain a couple of yards when the two opposing lines are in a deadlock; a fair quarterback and fair kickers, and, lastly, a drop-kicker who full well realizes the responsibility of his work in the present style of game." L. WITHINGTON '11, in Boston Globe...
Guernsey's drop-kicking technique against Princeton was in every detail equal to that of Brickley, and his goal of 28 yards against Princeton had enough power in it to have scored at 40 yards. Guernsey also is a long punter. Against Princeton his average through-out the afternoon was 40 yards, and some of his kicks travelled 50 yards...