Word: punt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...presented such weak resistance to straight rushing. In 1912, Crowther of Brown got away on a slippery field for a run of 45 yards across the Harvard goal; Princeton also scored a touchdown, but on a forward pass. In 1913, a Holy Cross player picked up a fumbled punt with no one between him and the goal. In the Cornell game, the opponents were able to make a touchdown by straight rushes from the 40-yard line, but this was against a substitute line-up, and the only time during the contest that Cornell outrushed the University. These were...
...above the average in open play. When it is considered that a more or less skilled team gained only about 27 yards by means of passes, wasted 12 downs with no gain, and six times surrendered the ball without the distance which would have been gained by a punt, the pass hardly looks worth the trouble taken in its development. Harvard started four passes, one of which was completed for a gain of seven yards...
...discover Yale's kicking methods, but in the end they were turned to account by the Blue's opponents. Both Princeton and Harvard took them up and experimented to such an extent that the Elis no longer enjoy the advantage they once had. It became no longer advantageous to punt even on mixed downs, merely for distance, and from a safe formation...
After Mahan had fumbled and recovered with a five yard gain, a punt placed the ball on Bates' 25-yard line. The Harvard line held, and Bates kicked out on her own 44-yard line. Mahan got away for 20 yards around end, but was called back because Trumbull was holding. An exchange of punts made it Harvard's ball on her own 42-yard line. Hardwick was summoned, and pulled off a beautiful 55-yard dash on an end around. Three more line attacks, and Brickley was again across Bates' goal. Hardwick this time missed the goal...
...kickoff was received by Harvard, and another opportunity offered to score when Bates muffed Mahan's punt on her 25-yard line. Two forward passes, however, were incomplete, and the ball finally lost on a touchback. Another exchange of punts and a 15-yard penalty when Bradlee was caught holding, made it Bates' ball in Crimson territory for the first time. Two forward passes on a "line" formation with three men wide at the right were incomplete, and after two more punts and a few profitable line plunges by Bates, the half was over with the ball on Harvard...