Word: offs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First half-hour--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again. Yale again kicks and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks...
Yale kicks off. Harvard runs back, but Yale now shows greater familiarity with the game and tackles strongly. The runner is stopped and the whole Yale team piles on him. When they are taken off, the ball is found a flattened sheet of rubber at the bottom. It is blown...
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 18. -- Three thousand undergraduates marched to the station at New Haven this afternoon to see the Yale Football team off for Auburndale. The squad was cheered and serenaded with football songs. Forty-six men, including the Yale cross-country team left in two special cars.
The usual black-board talk proceeded the day's work, and following that came a kicking drill for Captain Mahan, Horween, and Robinson. The seconds, finishing their work for the season, put on a few Yale formations for the line, and the University wound up the afternoon with a fast...
The punters received a great deal of individual attention and also there was some practice in kicking-off.