Word: punt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second half Harvard played a totally different game, and showed up much more strongly than in the first half. Princeton got the ball at the kick-off and Ames punted in front of Harvard's goal. Harvard's ball. Harvard now played harder and for some time the ball was kept in the middle of the field. Ames again made a good punt, which Sears returned. Ball went to Harvard and Sears broke through, and by a beautiful rush, carried the ball down towards Princeton's goal, but this advantage was soon lost. Play now began to be very rough...
...line where Harvard getting it, forced it by rushes of Trafford and davis to the fifteen-yard line and Sears made a touchdown eleven minutes after play was called. Harding kicked a goal. Wesleyan forced back ten yards from the centre of the field by sharp work of Cumnock, punted. Harvard had the ball down on the forty-yard line and Porter by a good rush advanced it to Wesleyan's twenty-yard line where be made a short punt. Wesleyan advanced the ball ten yards, but lost ground again by the good tackling of V. Harding. Wesleyan punted...
...goal. Score 20-0. One minute later Lee scored another touchdown, Porter having caught the ball and carried it to the fifteen-yard line. Sears kicked a goal. Amherst gained ten yards from the middle of the field and then kicked. Porter returned with a long punt and running to put the men on side got the ball which Cumnock stopped from rolling over, and had it down three yards from Amherst's line. Sears made a touchdown from which he kicked a goal. Time 17 min, Score 32-0. Amherst started the ball from the middle of the field...
...minutes of five. Tech. started with the ball but Crosby immediately got it from a fumble, Trafford rushed 10 yards and Harding carried the ball to the 15-yard line where it went to Tech on a fumble. Dean and Cumnock stopped a rush by good tackling and Tech punted. Sears fumbled and Tech had the ball down in the middle of the field. Tech kicked again and Harvard had the ball down. Sears, by a long punt sent the ball rolling towards the Tech line. Cumnock stopped it a yard from the line and Tech made a touch-down...
...ball close to Dartmouth's line and Sears carried it over, making the eleventh touch-down for Harvard. from which Harding kicked a goal. Dartmouth by sharp work forced the ball close to the Harvard line, where it went to Harvard on four downs. Sears made a beautiful punt which both the ends followed well, reaching the Dartmouth back as soon as the ball. The latter player fumbled the ball and Crosby getting it ran half the length of the field and made a touch-down, from which Harding kicked a goal. Time, 12 minutes. Score. 62-0. Harvard...