Word: punt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, 75, versatile grand old man of football, inventor of many a dazzling play, developer of the fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...favorite is his account of the Georgia Tech-Cumberland U. football game in 1916. Cumberland's fullback and captain, George Allen himself, made the best run of the game for his hard pressed side: "I only lost six yards." He would have made one beautiful punt if his own center had not blocked it with the back of his neck. George recalls: "I once dropped the ball and yelled at another fellow: 'Pick it up.' He yelled back at me, 'Pick it up yourself, you dropped it.'" The score: Tech, 220; Cumberland...
...matter of fact, it was the Whites who drew first blood, when in the second period they nailed Ralph Petrillo behind his own goal line for a safety on a punt return. Petrillo exacted revenge only a few minutes later when he scampered 70 yards for a touchdown to make the count...
...ROSE BOWL-Never any doubt here. Ala scored ist time got ball, kept it up before 93,000. So. Cal got no pts until Ala total was complete, when pass, blocked punt brought 2 tds . . . Ala 34, So. Cal 14. SUGAR BOWL-Okla A&M too big, strong for St. Mary's though Herman Wedemeyer, St. M threat, showed well. Bob Fenimore, Okla threat, showed better . . . Okla Aggies 33, St. Mary's 13. ORANGE BOWL-With score 6-6 and sees left to play, Al Hudson, Miami sub, intercptd pass . . . ran 89 yds to win game . . . Miami...
...strange noises in the night; to see senior officers who had burned themselves playing with fire between tea and dinner; to watch strange weapons (which occasionally worked) being tried out with live ammunition beside the wallflower beds on the lawn; to glimpse the colonel in something between a duck punt and a one-man submarine among the water lilies on the ornamental pond...