Word: punt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field. Yale won the toss and chose the wind, Harvard kicking off. The ball was passed back and sent on to Yale's ground by Mason's kick and Morison's rush. Soon, however, Yale's half-back, taking advantage of the wind, sent the ball by a high punt far into Harvard's territory, and Hull receiving the ball from a down carried it over our line by a pretty rush and scored a touchdown, but no goal was kicked. Yale now commenced the contemptible game she resorted to last fall, and in a few minutes nearly every...
...games played this season, a touchdown from which a goal is obtained is not scored. Without quoting any rules it will be admitted that a touchdown from which, by a place kick, the goal is obtained is not scored. The difficulty then is to prove that a punt-out is as much a try at goal as a place kick. This is solved by reference to rule 49, which says: 'A side having touched the ball down in their opponents' goal shall try at goal, either by a place kick or a punt-out.' That is, either...
...wind managed to kick it almost to our goal line. In the excitement our half-back, Coolidge, fumbled the ball, and Haxall securing it slid over the line and scored a touchdown for Princeton. The touchdown was too far from the poles to be brought out so a "punt out" was substituted, Peace receiving the ball and holding out for Haxall, who easily scored a goal. For the rest of the first three quarters the contest was intensely exciting, Princeton's kicking and Harvard's tackling and running keeping the ball in the very centre of the field. Eight minutes...
During the first half Harvard scored 7 touchdowns and 3 goals, one kicked by Keith from a touchdown and 2 by Mason from the field. After the first 4 touchdowns no attempts at goal were made, but punt-outs were substituted, which accounts for the small score of goals. In the second half one goal was kicked by Mason and 12 more touchdowns were made by the rushers, each coming in for a share...
...bounds. Goals scored by a kick alone count in this game, there being no touchdowns in the score, and no goal can be scored from a "free kick." Under the Rugby rules a goal can be scored by any kind of a kick except that of a "punt" - or kick on the fly. Besides which touchdowns are recognized as part of the game, but do not count in the score, no goal being made except by a kick from the fielding play direct. A majority of goals decides the match, and in case of a tie in the score...