Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that a deadlock was prevented only by Mickey Walker's illegal kick, which gave Harvard the ball in scoring territory, the Crimson showed for the first time that it could do something when the goal-line was in sight. In the plays, both by men playing in new holes, Danny Wells and Chet Litman, the ball was carried from the 14-yard line for a score. Credit for the victory must go to the New Deal in the football team, which put in a new left side of the line and completely jumbled up the backfield...
...Breakfast!'' roared Captain Guillermo Alba Rodriguez at his dawdling orderly last March. When Orderly Juan Rivera shambled in 45 minutes later with breakfast he received a furious frontal kick from hungry Captain Rodriguez, crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...
With the score 7-to-7 and four minutes to play, Bill Corbus, Stanford's All-American guard, booted a place kick from the 23-yd. line over Southern California's goal posts. Thus fell, with a resounding crash, the fattest Humpty Dumpty of 1933 football and the first big one to fall. To make sure the pieces would not be put together again that day, Corbus kicked again, scored again...
...booters from the banks of the Hudson are noted for their "kick-and-run" game and for their fighting spirit, having led across two tallies into the Lafayette goal during the last five minutes of play Wednesday...
...send in any other changes in the rules that they might favor. It was suggested that the present "dead-ball" rule should be abolished. As an example of the inadequate ness of this rule. Bingham cited a play in the Harvard-Dartmouth game, when a Dartmouth player caught a kick-off, stumbled to one knee, and was stopped by the referee, with no Harvard man within 20 yards...