Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game started inauspicuously for the CRIMSON when their big center made a bad kick-off. Notwithstanding this opening break the Harvard eleven played a tight game of football and held the Big Green to short runs and passes. Both lines played well and smeared many of the plays before they developed. The backfield of the CRIMSON did rather mediocre work and only once made a show of brilliance, at the beginning of the second quarter when a sustained series of short passes netted 30 yards and a touchdown. The try for goal failed...
Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...
...Blanton, 210-pound All Southwest-Conference tackle who was a strong cog in last year's championship eleven. A week ago Blanton took time out from his regular line job in order to kick a game-winning field goal against Oklahoma...
...league victories yesterday afternoon, and met defeat 19 to 0 at the hands of the Technology Freshmen. The Elephants successfully held the Engineers until the last half, when Tech came forward to make three touchdowns. In a well matched game, the only score of which resulted from a blocked kick, the Ramblers beat Leverett House...
...clear thinking. I stated to Mr. Perry that the Navy's stand on the eligibility question at the time of the Army-Navy break was better taken and far more sportsman like than West Point's; and that the latter's attitude was tantamount to saying "We will kick off from midfield; you, opponent, will kick off from your twenty yard line". Mr. Perry's reply was in effect that no one need schedule the Army team under compulsion, and that only refusals by opponents to play under the circumstances would break what properly has been termed the obdurate attitude...