Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard line Ver Wiebe was suddenly withdrawn from the game. Kennard entered quickly, took the center pass without calling a string of signals, and kicked the ball squarely between the goal posts before Harvard, Yale, or the stands realized the significance of the play...
...visitor to the University in 1914, a total stranger to American football, had seen Yale practice, and remarked to Coach Haughton that Yale played very much on the Rugby style. This startling news called a coaches' conference, it was decided that the Elis had something of a lateral pass up their sleeves, and plans were laid accordingly...
When Harvard visited the Bowl that fall, there was the Yale lateral pass, and there was Harvard's answer. Harvard won the game...
...sees no logical reason why a porous Harvard line becomes adamant within their own ten-yard line. The fact that Yale has scored but one touchdown in the Stadium since 1907 doesn't mean a things to him. He has never seen the Yale trick play of a pass from the center to the great open spaces. But the little fellow will learn. Give him time. Even Yale men haven't learned it thoroughly yet, judging from the quoted odds in our daily journals. My message of warning to my Yale friends today is that no Yale team has ever...
...There", said the authority on the Spanish Empire, pointing toward what would eventually be a forward pass, "there you have a concrete exemplification of the Drang Nach Osten tendency". A polite murmur of assent ran over the professorial assemblage and the blanketed professorial knees quivered in jubilation over the crack. Then a bony forefinger protruded into space and long white curtains floated in the Stadium atmosphere. "Will the gentleman entering the lower Portal of Section 39 kindly remove his hat?" Thousands sat in awe and whispers of "Well played, ... good eye ... bravo" were heard here and there...