Word: kickoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game, although it is not one of Harvard's major battles, has attracted more than passing interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...
While 50,000 or more people crowd the Stadium for the Harvard-Holy Cross tilt Harvard's Freshman eleven will climax season by battling the Yale first year team on the Second University field today. The opening kickoff of the contest is scheduled for 2 o'clock...
Outplaying their opponents from the kickoff to the final whistle, the Harvard 1932 eleven downed the Yale 1930 team yesterday at New Haven 26 to 0. Frank Watt II '32 scored the first touchdown of the Harvard class champions on the second play after the kickoff, when he raced 60 yards through a broken field to score. W. E. Hutchins '32 kicked the goal...
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...
...relieved of his duties as running guard and he subsequently played a much better game at defensive tackle. Kuehn justified his assignment at right tackle and Talbot again proved that he is still to be considered for a first team guard berth. His tackle of Bethea on the kickoff opening the second half was one of the cleanest and fiercest seen in the Stadium this year. The line as a whole clicked much better than it did against the Big Green, bad tackling being its only weakness...