Word: punt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale last week marched sluggishly through Georgia; wavered, struggled, stopped in front of a light but savage Georgia line. Spurning the handsome Bermuda grass of the brand new field in Athens, Left End Vernon ("Catfish") Smith of Georgia's little bulldogs helped block and then picked up a punt made by Yale's big bulldogs, ran it over for a touchdown, kicked the goal. In addition he did all Georgia's punting and scored another touchdown by snatching a forward pass. Capt. Joe Boland of Georgia played bulldoggedly at centre while behind him Fullback Rothstein got away...
...justified its change with the explanation that a fumble is the error of but one player, not the team, and the loss of the ball by fumble itself is equivalent to about 40 yards, figuring five yards for the fumble loss and 35 yards for a no-longer-possible punt...
...feel more inclined, however, to sympathize with the "man who dropped the punt" and "Riegels who ran the wrong way". These poor fellows had the bad luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...
...Putnam '30. He scored two touchdowns himself, heaved a pass to S. C. Burns '30 for a third and kicked all three extra points. But not content with doing most of his own team's scoring, Putnam also was responsible for the lone scrub touchdown when he muffed a punt near his own goal line. The ball rolled across where a scrub lineman fell...
...first University tally came early in the contest when Putnam caught a punt standing on his own 45-yard line and dodged and twisted his way through the entire scrub outfit. His drop kick was good...