Word: punters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell grad Ed Marinaro was honored at halftime as the Ivy League Player of the Era, meaning the best player in the league's 25-year history. Several Harvard alums made the All-Era squad, including Pat McInally, who did first-team double-duty at split end and punter...On hand for the festivities was Ben Mintz, longtime Cornell SID. "Eddie was one in a million," said Mintz about Marinaro...
Three minutes into the second quarter, the Big Red came up with the kind of big play that has knifed the heart out of the Crimson all year. Harvard punter Jim Villanueva mishandled a snap on his own 36-yard line, and Cornell's Steve Duca finally chased it down on the Harvard six, where the Big Red set up shop first-and-goal, and a probable 7-6 lead twenty feet away...
...punter is standing on his own 24-yd. line waiting for the snap. It comes and it is a good one, and the punter catches the ball and rotates it once so the laces are on top. But as he is dropping the ball out in front of his foot, a player breaks through the line of bodies protecting the punter and sprints toward him, arms extended. The punter drops the ball and kicks it. The player in white dives. It is clear that the ball and the player in white are going to collide...
...NOTEBOOK: Villaneuva also handled the punting for Harvard, lofting six for a 35.8 average, including a perfect coffin-corner kick. Senior punter Steve Flach, the incumbent, did make the trip, however...Junior Scott McCabe was Harvard's fourth-leading rusher, carrying five times for 26 yards...
Another player who has ties to the Ivy League even though he went to Notre Dame was a late cut of the Cleveland Browns. Joseph Restic Jr., punter and defensive back, headeo back to dental school at Penn...