Word: placement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...today the work for the University team was exceedingly light because of the hard game last Saturday. The coaches spent considerable time in perfecting the defence, and giving the men practice in tackling and running down the field under punts. The backs had a long drill in punting and placement-kicking; after which the first team devoted an hour to signal and formation work. In a half-hour scrimmage with the second team the scrubs succeeded, in scoring two touchdowns to the former's one. The university team line up as follows: l.e., Brann; l.t., Talbott; l.g., Conroy; c., White...
Scoring kicking, of course, is done only from the ground--both the placement kick and the drop-kick being made in this way--and need not be considered in extense in a treatment of the general use of the kicking game. Punting is the thing, in that it makes openings for the running game, or retrieves blunders made by the running game...
...curious that football men in general, and the coaches who face his team in particular, do not seem to realize that to beat Harvard and Haughton it is necessary to consider Harvard and Haughton's vital, and to my mind correct, principle--which is not drop kicking or placement kicking, but punting...
Second quarter opened with ball on Yale's 9-yard line. Knowles kicked to Mahan for fair catch on Yale's 38-yard line. Brickley tried a goal from placement, and succeeded. Score--Harvard, 6; Yale...
...long one by Mahan, which Freedley muffed badly, Hardwick being the only man near the ball when he recovered it. Thereafter, the contest was largely one of kicking with the ball never long in either eleven's possession. Brickley barely missed two tries at goal, one from placement following a fair catch on the 45-yard line, and the other a drop from the 35-yard line. Team B likewise had two fairly easy chances, both of which also failed by a comfortable margin...