Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed on a three-year eligibility for members of intercollegiate football teams. In this same year the new football era began. The changed rules called for a 10-yard gain in four downs and permitted the quarterback run, the forward pass and the onside kick. At the same time the game was shortened to 60 minutes, divided into four quarters...
...from the modern spectacle. A curious feature of the play was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner who was obliged to stop and kick the ball...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed on a three-year eligibility for members of intercollegiate football teams. In this same year the new football era began. The changed rules called for a 10-yard gain in four downs and permitted the quarterback run, the forward pass and the onside kick. At the same time the game was shortened to 60 minutes, divided into four quarters...
Yale won the toss and chose to depend the sunny side to kick to Harvard. Sensational playing began by Rotan kicking to Wood, the Harvard captain. By a lateral Crickard proceeded 25 yards to the Yale goal line, being forced out on Yale's 5-yard line. In two successive plays Crickard and White failed to gain. On the fourth down, Wood attempted a short pass but landed untouched on the Yale end zone...
Crowley failed to penetrate through the Harvard line. He was nailed again on next play for a scant yard gain. Parker fumbled the ball but Rotan recovered it. Parker's kick to Crickard was grounded by Barres, Yale giving the ball to Harvard on the Crimson six-yard line. Sherry's line plunge netted three yards, while on the second play, he added two more...