Word: run-back
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Cornell’s choice to kickoff deep after cutting Harvard’s lead to 14-10 in the second quarter. Byrnes fielded the kick at his 11-yard line, picked up a couple blocks and promptly executed the sixth longest run-back in Harvard history—the first since Chuck Nwokocha ’01 took a 94-yarder to the house against Yale in 2000. “I didn’t expect them to kick it deep,” Byrnes said...
Actually, Jones would have had a third score if a kick-off return had not been called back. Nevertheless, his 92-yard run-back demonstrated speed and big-play explosiveness that even the legendary Hu did not have...
Princeton knocked off Harvard last year, 11-6, on a 75-yd. free-kick run-back by Tom Urquhart. But Urquhart graduated, as did standout Princeton quarterback Doug Butler, owner of nearly every passing record in Tiger history...
With the new 3-4 defense choking off the long run and seamless zone defenses in the secondary denying all but the perfectly thrown pass, the big play is often the game-breaker in the N.F.L. this season. Often that play comes from the little men, especially on kickoff and punt returns. Many teams carry a diminutive run-back specialist on their rosters. As fearless as they are frail-looking, they await the ball amid the growing thunder of approaching tacklers. Momentarily obscured by a wall of blockers, they duck toward the sidelines in a suicidal dash toward glory. Johnson...
Eliot's tackle football team blanked Dudley, 13 to 0, in a hard fought game yesterday afternoon. Fred Rhinelander scored both times for the Elephants; the first time in the opening quarter on a punt run-back, and again in the last period on a sweep from the Commuters' 12-yard line...