Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Packers missed the League's Western Division championship by the margin of one point, having failed to kick a goal after a touchdown against the Chicago Cardinals. This year they played ten games in a row without a similar omission. The Packers lost their second game of the season, 30-to-3, against the Chicago Bears, in Green Bay's City Stadium. The humiliation was so extreme that they won every game thereafter until they clinched the Western Division championship last fortnight...
...identically. The score, 14-to-0 at the beginning of the third quarter, had become 14-10-7 on Struck's touchdown and conversion. Now, with less than three minutes to play, it was 14-to-13, on a pass from Oakes to Ford. Struck dropped back to kick. The whistle blew, the ball was snapped and the crowd of 60,000 in the Yale Bowl held its breath...
...from Harvard's 48-yd. line. Sprinting down the field, Kelley turned his head at the 10-yd. line and found the ball where it belonged, right above his shoulder. He tucked it under his arm, sprinted across the goal line. A moment later, Humphrey's place-kick brought what turned out to be the winning point...
...throws were largely what enabled Yale to beat Penn, Navy, Brown and Harvard. This season has been his best. In the Brown game, he scooped up a loose ball, ran 35 yards for a touchdown. Against Navy, he contrived to make the year's most controversial play. He kicked a fumbled punt to Navy's 3-yd. line whence Yale got the winning touchdown two plays later. Kicking a fumbled ball is illegal unless accidental. To officials, Kelley's kick looked like an accident. Against Princeton, it was Kelley's touchdown-after catching...
Kelley's touchdown was by no means his smartest move in the Princeton game. In the last quarter, the crowd saw what looked like a tragedy when Dave Colwell, Yale's ace punter, operated on for appendicitis only three weeks before and sent into the game to kick out of the end zone, was knocked unconscious two plays later...