Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first period began ominously for Adams when they fumbled after the kickoff on their own 20. The Coasters held Kirkland for which lasted throughout the whole first quarter. Slowly, Whitman's downs, however, in the first of a series of brilliant goal-line stands superb kicking brought Adams back to less dangerous territory, and then Adams began to assert itself...
Foster counted again a few moments later when he downed a kickoff in the Commuter end zone, Moore put the cover on with an 80 yard runback of an interception. The offense of neither team was outstanding until the last quarter, when Bullet Joe Kaufman ripped through the Kirkland line for goodsized gains...
Coach Charlie ("Unk") Moran, who was mentor of the "Praying Kernels" on their flight to fame, was supposed to have exhorted his men in this fashion just before the kickoff...
...Yale went into its 61st game with Princeton a not-too-heavy favorite, because it is legend that "anything can happen" in that series. But nothing unexpected happened. On the first play after the opening kickoff, Clinton Frank, Yale's hefty captain, whipped through the Princeton line, splattered 79 yards through the mud for a touchdown. Thereafter he scored three more, gained 190 of Yale's 280 yards. Score: Yale 26, Princeton...
After the kickoff one of the school players sneaked over to the side lines and lay there until the first play. When the ball was snapped back, he rose up and caught a long pass that was tossed to him, a perfectly executed sleeper pass. But the Harvard Freshman seconds were still in there fighting. They caught up with the catcher of the pass and were about to smother him on their own 30-yard line, but again they were fooled...