Word: punt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coach Warner to play a shifting game and to meet a varied attack. The team has been somewhat weakened by the loss of Captain Burd, who is out of the game for the season; and by an injury to Thorpe, the star left halfback, who has been unable to punt for the last few weeks. The latter's punts averaged nearly 60 yards, so that it can easily be seen what his injury has cost the team. But allowing for these losses the Carlisle line-up will be one of the strongest and best balanced of any that...
...clear field, and easily carried the ball across for touchdown. No goal was kicked. This time the ball was given to the Law School on its own 35-yard line. An exchange of kicks gained twenty yards for the substitutes, and on the next play Minot's punt struck one of his own men, rolling back of the goal line. Page fell on it for a safety. These were the only scores made...
...Freshman football squad was given strenuous work yesterday afternoon. A drill in catching punts was given to the backs, and charging practice for the linemen was held. The first team then went through a long dummy scrimmage with the substitutes in which no tackling was allowed. Afterwards the first team lined up against the second for a forty-minute scrimmage. For the first ten minutes the play was decidedly listless but became more lively as practice went on, and after about fifteen minutes' play the first team worked the ball down to the second's two-yard line. The next...
...play. Soon after the kick-off, Dickerman, with excellent interference, ran 40 yards for a touchdown. Hurd kicked the goal. A few minutes later Exeter scored again on a clever forward pass from Hurd to Brown, Hurd again kicking the goal. The final score was the result of a punt blocked by Kirkpatrick of Exeter; the ball rolled 30 yards and McDougall fell on it behind the goal line for a touchdown...
Phillips Andover Academy defeated the Yale freshmen in a hard-played game last Saturday afternoon by the score of 11 to 6. The first touchdown occurred when Roberts of Andover blocked Smith's punt on Yale's 20-yard line. A forward pass succeeded and Van Brocklin ran over the line for a score. The try for goal failed. In the next quarter, by a series of line plunges, Yale managed to score and kick the goal. A second forward pass form Mahan to Van Brocklin in the third period and a goal from touchdown gave Andover the winning points...