Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football depths into which it had fallen for the past few years is not at all optimistic regarding this contest. Although heralded as one of the strongest teams in the East, the fact remains that when the "New Deal" eleven trots out on the field for the kickoff today it will be facing its first test of strength this season. The presence of five sophomores in the starting line-up may also have an unfavorable psychological reaction on the team. The hardest blow of all to the hopes of the new Dartmouth coaching staff however was the long casualty list...
Adams tallied on the first play against the Rabbits when Hart recovered a fumbled kickoff over the goal line. Leverett retaliated by rushing the ball over in the second period. A plunge scored the extra point...
...highly tonted Purple Knight coming out of the West to show John Harvard how to play football will enter the game today with odds considerably shortened before the two elevens line up for the opening kickoff. Quotes last night set the figures at 3-2 for the Crusaders to whip the Crimson forces, which represents a rapid change in sentiment for the Harvard lads...
...Left End Freddy Crocker caught it, trotted across the Yale goal with nobody near him. It was after Yale had battered through a touchdown in the third period, that the most exciting play of the day occurred. Halfback Fergie Locke, fastest man on the Harvard squad, caught the kickoff on his 10-yd. line. He ran a few yards, paused near Quarterback Haley, half-pivoted and pretended to hand the ball to him. Haley, doubled over and hugging himself, raced away, drawing half the Yale tacklers toward him. Harvard blockers took care of the rest of the Yale team while...
...game is now history, but for the benefit of those who are still in ignorance the score was 19-6. Three perfectly executed passes and one of the longest runs on record turned the trick. Locke's jaunt down the field on the kickoff will go down in the annals as one of the most thrilling exhibitions of football seen in the series. Outrushed by Yale from scrimmages 152 yards to 78, Harvard managed to keep the game on ice after the touchdown by Haley after three minutes of the first quarter had elapsed...