Word: punt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges met and agreed upon a set of "Concessionary Rules". Among other points Yale agreed to a fifteen man team and Harvard (to quote Martin L. Cate '77 in the H Book of Harvard Athletics) "gave up the right of the side making a touchdown to bring or punt the ball out to be converted into goal". The Number Six ball agreed upon was thirty inches in circumference and less pointed at the ends than the present Rugby football...
Neale Gets off Good Punt...
...errs. Among the graduates of both Harvard and Yale there are men whose happiness has been seriously affected for a time as the result of mistakes made in a Harvard-Yale game. More than one player has gone down in college history as 'the man who fumbled the punt' or 'the man who missed the tackle...
...punt that followed Hubbard tackled Dooley on the 20-yard line. Hall made two yards. Haws gained three more, then Hall kicked offside to Spalding on the 28-yard line. End of half. Score: Dartmouth 13, Harvard...
Dooley caught Hammond's punt on his 45-yard line. A line play failed to gain. Hubbard jumped and grabbed a pass thrown by Kelley and ran to the Dartmouth 33-yard line...