Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently, he thinks that under the new rule eleven players will go out for the opening kickoff, not to leave again except for half time and the game's end. In reality, few will play the full sixty minutes and probably almost as many men will play as before, though some of them--defensive backs--not for so long...
...Player. Backs to the wall on their own 18-yd. line following the second-half kickoff, Sears & Co. (he plays both offense and defense) held fast, then broke the game open with another dazzling and impromptu burst. This time, Sears was a bystander as Defensive Tackle Elmer Willhoite intercepted a Cameron pass and chugged his beefy, 210-lb. frame down the sideline for 72 yards. For the next three downs the U.C.L.A. line held firm. On fourth down, with four yards to go for the touchdown, it was all up to Jimmy Sears...
McNamara took a handoff from quarterback Steve Kurzman early in the second period and sliced off his left tackle for the initial score. Yale muffed the ensuing kickoff and only got up to the six. The Eliot line held for three downs, forcing Berkeley to kick, the Elephants taking over on the 35. Two plays later McNamara drove off his right tackle and went into the end zone standing...
Right Guard Joe Mitinger charged down under the opening kickoff in the Yalies season open with U Conn and made the tackle. It was somewhat symbolic--he's been doing a lot of the tackling since. A hard charger, the Eli Captain made almost a third of the tackles in the Princeton game, doing a particularly fine job stopping Homer Smith. Left tackle Harris Ashton, also played a good game against the Tigers, and has improved steadily all year...
...Kickoff in at 5 p.m. in the Radcliffe Quad...