Word: punt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well defined policy with perfect coolness and confidence. Their tactics were finely adapted to the conditions which were brought about by their luck in winning the toss. With the wind at their backs they played strictly a kicking game and gained enormously by it. Harvard was not able to punt more than half the distance against the strong wind, consequently she was put upon the offensive for the greater part of the first half...
...fell on it. Brewer kicked and followed up the ball, which Butterworth dropped, Brewer securing it on Harvard's 30 yard line. Then followed a succession of plays, including several repetitions of the new "fake" wedge used in the second play of the game. Finally Brewer was forced to punt on the third down. Thorne secured the ball on Yale's 39 yard line...
From this time on there were some 60 plays. Yale had the ball for nearly 45 of these, making gain after gain by tackle and guard. Harvard would get the ball on four downs or on a kick, only to be obliged to punt back. The ball was never once forced near Yale's goal, never again did Harvard enthusiasm rouse itself. Just after the fine runs by Wrightington and Brewer, Waters, who had already been hurt two or three times, was obliged to leave the field on account of a knock on the head and water on the knee...
...great difference, however, between eastern and western football, he says, is remarkably evident in the kicking and punting. In the east a good deal of time is devoted to these details, and consequently we find fullbacks who seldom make a bad punt or miss a goal. In the west it is different; the kicking and punting is poor-it could hardly...
Cornell again was forced to punt. Hoag caught the ball on the 25 yard line and in another five minutes Wrightington made the second touchdown. Fairchild failed on the try for goal...