Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...backs were kept out to kick and catch punts. Of these the most promising were R. Cutler, who did some excellent kicking, Johnson, Minot, Page and Pope...
...HAVEN, CONN., September 26, 1907.--The second scrimmage of the year for the Yale football squad took place this afternoon in a keenly contested battle between the first and second teams. Wheaton for the university team made a successful attempt at a drop kick, thereby scoring the only goal. Corey excelled in punting, his kicks averaging from 45 to 50 yards. Previous to the scrimmage Coach Knox and his assistants put the whole squad through a severe drill, and ran three of the teams through a lively fifteen-minutes signal practice...
...University forwards, and but for the snow which made accurate shooting impossible, the score would have been larger. Of the five goals, Osborne made three, and Biddle and A. N. Reggio one each. Cornell's goal came after a hard scrimmage in front of the net, following a kick out from the corner of the field. Two thirty-minute halves were played...
...fierce, determined play by Yale, by brilliant individual work and powerful resistance on the part of the University team, but most of all by a skilled use of open plays. Yale's touchdown, very near the close of the first half, came as the result of a recovered onside kick and a long forward pass from Veeder to Alcott on Harvard's four-yard line, when the former had dropped back as if for a kick. Forbes, who had been called back to strengthen the back field, gained only two yards on a line buck, but in the next play...
...first few minutes of play it looked as if the University eleven would score for shortly after the first kick-off Macdonald secured the ball on Yale's 45-yard line after Parker had blocked Veeder's punt. A forward pass to Starr gained 21 yards, and two line bucks by Wendell carried the ball to the 17-yard line. Here Newhall tried a drop kick, but Biglow broke through the line and after blocking the ball downed it on Yale's 44-yard line. Several exchanges of punts followed on one of which Veeder sent the ball over Harvard...