Word: punt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVEN--One second, we had a ball game. Yale led early in the final quarter, 10-7, but had to punt from inside its own territory on third and 25. Seconds later, the game and the Ivy League season were as good as over, as punter Mike Sullivan ran past the stunned Harvard rushers and dashed 66 yards for the clinching touchdown...
...game certainly started badly for the Crimson. After Harvard stopped Yale on the Eli's initial possession, Ralph Polillio fumbled the punt amid three foes, but Harvard somehow managed to come up with the loose ball...
Quarterback Larry Brown was promptly sacked back at his own five. A long Jim Curry punt got Harvard out of the hole, and then the mistakes started to come fast and furious. Yale fumbled the ball over to the visitors, who quickly fumbled it back...
Take the second quarter of the Crimson's loss. A storming contingent of Crimson rushers blocked a punt deep in Yale territory, pouncing en masse onto the pigskin at the Yale goal line...
After a scoreless first half marred by sloppy play, the Bullpups got THE break that often decides Yale-Harvard epics. Todd Elkins' fumble of a Yale punt put the sluggish Eli offense in business deep in Crimson territory...