Word: punt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential for electrifying run-backs after kickoffs and punts is never short-circuited in Canada; fair catches and downed balls are prohibited. On punt returns, even downfield blocking is illegal. The receiver is protected only by a mandatory 5-yd. neutral zone before he catches the ball. After that the runner is either obliterated or he makes a mad dash for daylight. In another novel twist called the rouge play, any punt, kickoff, or quick kick scores a point for the kicking team if the ball reaches the opponents' end zone...
Following a Yale punt, the yardlings then moved from their own 12-yard line to the Eli four, where they faced a crucial fourth and goal. Crimson coach Chet O'Neill elected to go for the victory rather than a tying field goal, but quarterback Steve O'Brien was dumped for a sevenyard loss while trying to pass. A meaningless Yale safety at the end of the game closed out the scoring...
Brown struck first, jumping to a quick 13-0 lead on a Dennis Coleman keeper and a blocked punt. Coleman, the running half of the Bruin's tandem quarterback team, drove Brown 50 yards the first time the Bruins had the ball. With Harvard keying on Coleman's running talents, the Bruin quarterback twice picked up valuable yardage with pesky over-the-middle passes, to extend the drive. Then, on second and goal, Coleman sliced through left tackle for the score...
Later in the quarter, Brown broke through the Crimson front wall to rebuff Stoeckel's punt and send it bouncing into the endzone. There Ron Watt covered the ball for the score...
After the defense forced a Tiger punt, Harvard's offense continued to roll. They moved to the Princeton 20-yard line where Tom Lincoln blasted up the middle and scored the touchdown which put the Yardlings within one point...