Word: punt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody knows which way the football is going to bounce, especially on an afternoon like today. Last year's game might have been different if Levi Jackson's one-handed grab of a wind-blown punt had failed, or if his now famous forward fumble had not hopped 11 yards into the grasping hands of Jack Roderick to keep Yale's scoring drive alive...
...East called a momentary halt to the series, an under-dog Yale squad snatched a 7 to 3 win from the Crimson on a bleak rainy Saturday, scoring an upset that many present-day students still remember. Don Richards, later killed in the Normandy campaign, returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown, only to have the score called back because of an offside penalty...
...Crimson opened the scoring in the second quarter following a John White punt runback. Halfback John West and White carried the ball inside and outside for 60 yards with White finally striking pay dirt on an off tackle slant from the 3-yard line. Jim Lowell made the point...
...above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total to over 170. No iron man in the days of wooden stands ever had so much to learn...
...Scarlet returned to the lectern in the second half, however, and illustrated its command of the sport on three occasions, most memorable of which was Hering's 66-yard touchdown punt return...