Word: punt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taken on the first squad yesterday. He justified his advancement by playing a brilliant all around game. He made several good tackles, rushed the ball forward once with three men clinging to him and blocked off for Dunlop who made a thirty-five yard run after catching a punt...
...Springfield game the first touchdown was made by a punt being blocked and the ball going behind the Harvard goal. Yale had worked the ball to Harvard's 20 yard line, when Redpath was signalled to punt. The ball was passed back all right, but Morris, the Yale guard, broke through, stopped the punt, and fell on the ball behind the line. The second touchdown was scored after about twenty minutes of hard work. The ball was kicked to Betts on Yale's 15 yard line. Instead of returning it he started to run, when his captain shouted...
Whittemore made eight yards through right tackle and then tried centre for no gain. Bull was here slightly injured, but resumed play. A. Brewer ran out of bounds, then Hayes was thrown by Gelbert without gain. A punt at once took the ball to Pennsylvania's 50-yard line, from which Brooke returned it. Harvard was given fifteen yards for a foul tackle...
Within two minutes from the beginning of the game Yale had scored her first six points, but not by hard playing. On the first down with the ball on Harvard's 20 yard line, Stillman broke past Frank Shaw, blocked Wrightington's punt, and fell on the ball behind the line for the first touchdown...
...goal from the field. The ball hit the cross-bar and Butterworth caught it, and was thrown back of the goal by Waters, thus making a safety. This did not count, as Referee Boviard had thought it best to blow his whistle just before Butterworth fell. Thorne punted to the 35 yard line and, as Captain Hinkey happened to be in the way of the ball, it went to Harvard on the 20 yard line. After a few ineffectual rushes Fairchild took the ball around Captain Hinkey's end for 18 yards, and Hayes carried it over the line...