Word: kickoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening kickoff Andover kicked twice out of bounds and Harvard took the ball in a sustained march down the field from its own 40 yard line. Batchelder scoring the touchdown. In the second quarter again he intercepted a forward pass and ran 25 yards for a second touchdown...
Although Team A was not on the field against the scrubs for more than a third of the 60 minute scrimmage, the first combination showed that it had already reached a high stage of coordination and smoothness. In the seven plays following the opening kickoff, the first team, with J. P. Crosby '28 and David Guarnaccia '29 carrying the ball, marched 85 yards to score the only touchdown of the afternoon. Once more the first string backs, following their interference through the holes opened in the scrub line, carried the ball down within striking distance of the goal line. This...
...football was played in the late eighties and early nineties the kickoff was effected by touching the ball with a man's fool, picking it up, and running behind the other ten men who started as scon as the ball was touched and formed a wedge. The defending team merely laid down in front of the wedge and the entire team went down in a pile having gained perhaps ten yards...
Shortly after the kickoff that opened the scrimmage, the scrub team got the ball on their own 30-yard line, and marched down the field using a Princeton offense to the University's 20-yard stripe. Here the regulars intercepted a pass, and with the ball finally in their possession tore 80 yards down the field for a touchdown, Miller taking the pigskin over from a trick formation. The entire 80 yards was gained by lineplunging...
...uncertainly of the woman's vote. For Joe Forecast, despite all rumors to the contrary, is but human; and there is his weakness. But football, a game for red-blooded, virile men, there Joe Forecast is in his element. How he longs for the opening kickoff to see the Crimson-jerseyed hosts pass and repass the last white line. But I grow poetic. I have to be very careful about that...