Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting occurs on March 24th, and the following events will take place: Running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, pole vault, horizontal bar, spring-board leaping, running high kick, tumbling, and the final tug-of-war between the teams winning the former events...
...triumphal announcements of the heralds at the Olympian games. "With bat and ball and oar, on land on water, the blue has been uniformly triumphant, and Yale reigns supreme," he said. "Columbia cheers and strives to imitate, Princeton applauds and despairs, and Harvard goes back to Cambridge and kicks, but her misfortune is that she does not kick hard enough at the right time. The athletic triumphs of Yale are celebrated by the increasing numbers of the freshman class, for the students at the preparatory schools know what constitute the higher branches of a liberal education...
...Yale was the best generaled team in the field. In meeting Princeton, they played their heavy runners with only an occasional kick when forced, but when they met the heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...
...game comes into notice. Eleven men working as one can do more than eleven men working individually. If the quarterback by his signals lets each man on his team know just who is going to take the ball and where he is going to run with it or kick it, each one of the eleven can then take part in every play and give effectual aid to the man who has the ball. Princeton had this team play well arranged. Their signals told the whole team what the play was to be, and, as the scrimmage was made, every...
...Many have been the complaints from the graduates of all the colleges that the teams did not kick enough. "Just think what you gain by a kick!" is a very common phrase, and the spectators are sure to raise a shout as the ball rises over the heads of the players, and goes-to the other side. Harvard kicked very little this year. She might have kicked more; she could scarcely have kicked less. Princeton has always been famous for good kickers, and she had a good one this year in her full-back. Yale kicked more than either. There...