Word: punters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skill and artistry were to do in years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches. In 1894 all home football activities were transferred from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. This decade also gave to Harvard the world's greatest punter and Harvard's great coach, Percy D. Haughton '99, the world's second best quarterback of all time according to Walter Camp, Charlie Daly '01, and Marshall Newell '94, one of the few starts of football history who have detested the game...
...problem of chosing a new coach the Yale Athletic Board turned naturally to Marvin Alien Stevens, a handsome young man who came to Yale in 1922 from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter, and who for the last three years has coached the backfield and studied at the Medical School. Stevens will carry on Tad Jones's system which he probably understands as thoroughly as Jones. He has a contract for three years...
...Mason '30 took Donaghy's place in the brief workout yesterday Mason, who is best known for his speed of foot, is the third best punter on the University squad, ranking behind A. E. French '29 and Donaghy...
Captain Smith, of the visitors is known as a strong punter who averages nearly 50 yars on his kicks. The Harvard squad is not blessed with an extraordinarily powerful kicker, but Burns, who will handle the booting asignment this afternoon, is a capable punter. A. E. French '29 and T. G. Moore '29, two backs who are certain to get into the game, are the other kickers on the University gridiron squad...
...through which the hanks tore off long gains. Randall, Brown quarterback, was the outstanding player of the day. It was he who directed the magnificent opening charge of the Bear, who, with Mishel; successfully engineered the passing attack, and who carried the burden of competing with McGunigle, the Yale punter. All these duties the stocky quarterback performed in a workmanlike manner that stamped him as a dangerous menace to the teams yet remaining on the Brown schedule...