Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kick in the pants...
Johnny Felmeth, Sophomore star, led the Lowell House team to a 2 to 0 victory ever Leverett. The score came in the second quarter when the Bunnies tried two running plays with the ball on their own one foot line, where Felmeth had placed it with a coflin-corner kick. On the second down, the entire Lowell line broke through and downed the runner behind his own goal for the second safety...
Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...
...Mills had no secret formula. Everything he worked out could be discovered by an alert coach. He had what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...
...Many coaches merely pray for clear weather instead of being prepared for rain with a weapon which clicks any day. Rain jeopardizes passes, mud curtails fancy running plays, but kicking rises in effectiveness in bad weather. Teams must kick twice as often in bad weather and better kicking wins...