Word: punter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considered. Captain Baldwin will make a good quarterback, with a chance for the first eleven when Daly leaves. Nickerson, tackle, and Clark, end, are both promising players. Hersey is a good running halfback, but has little idea of team play. Kernan, substitute back, has great abilities as a punter, which could well be developed...
...backs are well up to the standard, though in the harder games already played, they have not shown the strength in line bucking which was expected on account of their weight. McBride has maintained his reputation as a punter and line bucker, and it is largely to his careful coaching and management that the excellent development of the team...
...Indian game and the secret practices have shown that Hallowell is the most reliable and effective punter on the team. He places his kicks and works well with the ends. Reid, however, has shown steady improvement in this department of the game, and Sawin, who has fallen off, however, since the middle of the season, can be called on to punt in emergencies. The principal weakness of the team at present is fumbling kicks--a weakness which gave the Indians their touchdown. Sawin, who is strong on catching punts, plays in the backfield with Daly, and together they are sure...
...most important result of the game is the fact that the Freshman team has been over-rated. Stillman is a fine punter, and a useful rusher, but is the only man on the eleven above the average. The line is weak, as was proved by the successful attacks made upon it by the Sophomores, and plays a spiritless game. On the offense, the lack of team play was apparent, and accounts for the failure of the eleven to gain ground by rushing...
Owing to the unusually high wind the possibility of one side's winning on the superiority of a punter was early presented Right here is one of the most remarkable coincidences that has happened in recent football. McBride and Haughton both played best against the wind. McBride is party excusable for his poor kicking the first half, when his position so near the line enabled the Harvard forwards to break through on him repeatedly. During the first half Haughton kicked beautifully and did much to offset for Harvard the disadvantage of having to buck against the wind. In the second...