Word: punt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game would be a possibility but for one fact. Yale is far superior in kicking. This means a great deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick a goal from the field, while Butterworth is the most skillful drop kicker on any team today. Even he, however, rarely does better than one goal in three, so that...
...gets low, and in a wind Brewer can outpunt Butterworth. It sounds a little unreasonable to place the chances of the game on this one circumstance, but the facts bear out such a judgment. The teams are so evenly matched in ordinary play that, leaving the punting out of consideration, they are likely not to score at all, or else to play a tie game. Accordingly, the side which is stronger in punting will resort to it constantly, and in that way force the other side to punt. The result will be that eventually the side which punts best will...
Brewer failed to gain on the first down and Wrightington kicked to Andrews who muffed the ball and it was again fallen on by A. Brewer. Harvard was forced to punt on the second down, and Van Doozer was given a chance to buck the line. He made four yards through Hallowell and three past Norton Shaw, and the ball was lost by a poor pass. Then by short rushes by Fair-child, Brewer and Waters, the ball was carried over the line for the second touchdown, making the score...
...kicked to Jackson. Hitch went through the centre for five yards. The freshmen got the ball on a fumble at their five yard line and Fincke gained ten yards by the criss-cross play. On the next play Knapp blocked the kick, Fincke falling on the ball. The next punt landed the ball at the middle of the field. Successive rushes by Jackson, Hitch and Miller carried it to ninety-eight's one yard line, where the freshmen held strong and got the ball on four downs. From a fair catch by Jackson, Pierce attempted a goal...
...opening of the second half Jackson returned Fincke's kick-off. Redpath ran around right end for fifteen yards. The freshmen were forced to kick and the return punt brought the ball to their ten yard line, where the seniors recovered the ball on four downs. On the next play Jackson ran around left end for the first touchdown. Pierce failed to kick the goal. A double exchange of punts, with Miller's fifteen yard run and Hitch's gain through the centre brought the ball to ninety-eight's ten yard line, where Potter broke through and tackled Cabot...