Word: punt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oldest College Dally scored its lone touchdown late in the game on an 87-yard punt return by Malcolm "The Lance" Liebman. Chuck Bevard, of the CRIMSON, blocked the extra point attempt...
Early in the fourth quarter Kirkland had its best chance to score--but failed to capitalize on the opportunity. A punt had pushed Yale back to its own 14--deeper than Trumbull had been all game. After ekeing out a first down. Trumbull fumbled and Kirkland took the ball on the 36. But again the Yale forward wall thwarted Kirkland's ground attack. After the Deacons had been held for three downs, Trumbull intercepted Lee Raitz's pass on the 18, stopping the drive...
After a muffed fourth-down punt by Harvard that gave the Bulldogs the ball on the Crimson 33, Yale moved the ball up to the 20 on a series of line plunges. Then, Bulldog quarterback Ed McCarthy dropped back to pass, or so it seemed. Slipping the ball to fullback Pete Cummings on a draw play, he gave him an alley a mile wide through the center of Harvard's line, which he used to good advantage, rambling the 20 yards for the score...
...Louisville's St. Patrick's School. Awarded an athletic scholarship to Notre Dame, Hornung quickly caught the eye of canny Coach Frank Leahy. "He runs like a mower going through grass," marveled Leahy. "And his kicking-why, when he reported to me as a freshman, he could punt 80 yds. and place-kick over the crossbar from...
...Crimson, and halfback Billy Taylor, who turned in the best performance of his college career Saturday, returned the ball to the 30. Quarterback Mike Bassett, working at times with a new unbalanced-line attack, could not move the club, and on fourth down Taylor went back for the punt. Then came the fatal high pass from center, and Columbia took over on the Harvard 19. On the fourth play, Haggerty ran the ball nine yards off right tackle untouched for the Lions' second TD. Again, the PAT attempt failed...