Word: kicking
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...preliminary practice of the Freshman football squad yesterday consisted of kicking and catching punts for the backs, and breaking through for the line-men. Some of the men were instructed by Coach MacCarthy in falling on the ball. Signal practice for the first two teams lasted about half an hour. In the 20-minute line-up which followed, the first team scored three times. The first team kicked off, the ball going behind the goal-line. The second kicked out to the middle of the field, and from that point the first scored in three rushes, Pope making the touchdown...
...second team was kept on the defensive most of the time, but once in the second half reached Exeter's 15-yard line, where the ball was lost on downs. The feature of the game was the playing of Lewis, who ran back a kick-off 40 yards and later ran 35 yards for a touchdown after intercepting a forward pass...
...University football squad yesterday afternoon for the second day in succession. The usual preliminary drill consisting mainly of work in the forward pass was held, however. Rand, Starr, Butt, Gilbert, Lockwood and Cutting were given particularly long practice in forward passing. A new formation in receiving the kick-off was tried with Burr in the fullback's position in front of the goal posts. In case Burr caught the ball he made a return punt from about the 20-yard line. If any other player caught the kick-off the ball was run back as usual...
...Freshman football squad had a hard, fast practice yesterday afternoon. At the beginning of the scrimmage the ball was given to the second team in the centre of the field and they soon lost it on a quarterback kick. The first team quickly carried the ball to the 20-yard line where the ball went to the second on a fumble. The ball having changed hands several times, the first team scored by a series of passes and short end runs. After the second team had received and lost the ball, the first team carried it to the 1-yard...
...football team defeated Springfield Training School this afternoon by the score of 18 to 0. During the entire first half Yale kept the ball in her opponents territory, continually gaining by end runs and line plunges. Two touchdowns were scored in the first half, one two minutes after the kick-off, through a fumble made by Springfield. Coy scored the third touchdown by a run of 95 yards on the kick-off at the beginning of the second half. The running back of punts by Bigelow, Coy, and Wylie was the feature of the game...