Word: punt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Fisher them gave the Crimson the ball on its 25-yard line. Three attempts to break through the scrubs proved futile, and Hammond was forced to punt. Cheek, Gehrke, Miller and Hammond were not working well as a backfield combination yesterday. Similarly when the seconds tried to gain on line plays they were unsuccessful, and they kicked back to the University's 32-yard line...
...tackle plays. When Allen, Bunnell, Scott, and Kline entered the backfield in the second half, they staged a procession that went 90 yards before they lost the ball. Yale's greatest scare came in this period when Devin, Carolina halfback, tore through a broken field after catching a punt, being brought to ground only on the 25 yard line
Stafford received the scrub punt and made the second brilliant run of the afternoon when he wormed his way by half a dozen black jerseyed tacklers for a 30-yard gain. Coach Fisher subsequently gave the ball to Coach Knox's team on its own 20-yard line. They falled to accomplish anything...
Coach Shaw had his three Freshman crews on the water yesterday for the first time. Coach Haines also had the dormitory and 150-pound Freshmen straining the oar-locks of the Leviathan, or twenty-oared punt. This punt, contrary to expectations, makes excellent time under the impulse of the twenty oarsmen, and from the standpoint of the Coach being able to move between the oarsmen while rowing, it is a success...
Yesterday afternoon furnished much humor. Several alleged that the punt, which seats ten men on a side and has a runway down its length, resembles nothing so much as an old Roman galley. What with a coach, a manager, and a moving picture photographer pacing between the oarsmen, all that would have been needed to complete the picture of a classic galley would have been to chain the men to their seats and supply the coach with a whip...