Word: punt
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...convinced Phillips's injury is part of a plot. Finally, late in the fourth quarter, Neal Miller carries the ball to Yale's 30-yard line. Two passes fail and Lynch successfully kicks a field goal. The defense holds, and with time running out for Harvard, fair catches a punt on its own 3-yard line. On the last play Kubacki drops back into the end zone to pass, eludes several Yale tacklers, and calmly steps out of the end zone as the gun sounds. William F. Buckley, disguised as a Vassar coed, vainly tries to kick the drum...
Things didn't look any better when, on the ensuing series, Harvard quarterback Jim Kubacki overthrew two open receivers and managed a one yard gain on third down necessitating a Crimson punt. Harvard fans had witnessed this scenario all too many times before. An underdog Dartmouth squad, super-psyched, outplaying an overanxious Crimson team that was making costly mistakes...
...turning point of the game, however, came in the last 30 seconds of the first half. Dartmouth took over on its own 20 after a Harvard punt. But instead of running out the clock and settling to lick its wounds with a four-point deficit at the half, the Green inexplicably tried to pass...
Last year brought a 5-4 mark, including two near misses (7-6 to Dartmouth and 14-9 to Penn when Adolph Bellizeare returned a punt 69 yards in the last quarter) and a four-game winning streak to carry over into this year, a streak which reached seven last Saturday against Yale...
Injured quarterback Mike Brait went to the air only 11 times in leading Dartmouth to a ground victory over Penn 19-14 in a downpour at Hanover, N.H. Roland Griggs ran for one Big Green touchdown and Tom Fleming caught the other following his 46 yard punt return to the Penn four-yard line...