Word: punt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Emper put the white team on the scoreboard late in the second quarter when he took a punt 97 yards for six points. The whites, composed of the first offense and the second defense, had threatened earlier, but halfback Ed Cronin was stopped on the six-inch line on a fourth down...
When Chief Wahoo McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins went back to punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs...
...alternative in fourth-down situations will be a return to the art of the coffin corner kick, which pins opponents deep in their own territory by sailing the punt out of bounds as close to the goal line as possible. Trapped inside their own ten, a team will not risk an interception by throwing the ball, and will be reduced to grinding yardage out on the ground. Ideally, the defense could then swarm all over the bottled-up offense and force another punt...
...compensation, the NFL approved another rule change which states that members of a team kicking from scrimmage, either when punting or kicking a field goal, cannot cross the line of scrimmage until the ball is kicked. The rule change is designed to encourage punt returns, which averaged less than eight yards and produced only ten touchdowns in the last two seasons...
...little offensive excitement the new rules have brought to the NFL game is the likelihood of more long punt returns when a team punts from deep in its own territory. More often than not, however, the punting team will have been trapped there by a previous coffin corner kick. Punt, punt, punt...