Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England urchins in 1915, football was Mickey Cochrane s first specialty. At Boston University his exploits of a dozen years ago are still legend. His method of practicing was to divide the squad into two sides-eleven men on one, himself on the other-and call for a kickoff. If he failed to run back for a touchdown, he became exasperated, had the ball kicked off again. The Brunswick Hotel, baseball headquarters was near Boston University. Cochrane met the players who stayed there, decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover...
...Board, who sought an inexpensive outdoor game suited to large playgrounds. A combination of golf and soccer, its object is to kick a large, lively rubber ball down stretches of "fairway" into 14 specially constructed bowls in the smallest possible number of kicks. A set of bowls with flags, kickoff-markers and 48 inflated 12-oz. balls, all the equipment required to play Codeball anywhere, costs about $100. There are now estimated to be 50,000 competent Codeballers...
...Speer had died by the hand of "a person unknown." Last week Mount Hermon's trustees got down to the business of picking as new headmaster a close friend of Mr. Speer. David Richard Porter. A onetime Bowdoin footballer. David Porter first won fame by catching a Harvard kickoff behind his own goal line, running it back 107 yards for a touchdown. Athletic and youngish at 52, he is an active Y. M. C. A. worker, author of several religious books. First and most popular thing he did last autumn, after Mr. Speer called him to Mount Hermon...
...dressed in the colors of Temple and Tulane, was dragged onto the field to be greeted by a Father New Orleans in cavalier's costume. Neatest play of an exciting, well-played contest came in the second quarter when Tulane's Quarterback Mc-Daniel caught a Temple kickoff, ran to the right to draw tacklers, then threw a lateral pass to his teammate Monk Simons who scampered 75 yd. for a touchdown. Two more Tulane touchdowns in the last half outweighed Temple's early lead...
...over two years on a long pass from Fullerton to Doyle, the Brooks House eleven eked out a tie with Winthrop yesterday afternoon, just as dusk was falling over Soldiers Field. An attempt to convert the extra point by a line buck was stopped by inches. After the kickoff there were three play before the game ended, all passes, and all intercepted in the gathering gloom...