Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following play was probably the most unusual of the afternoon. Cuccia took the snap and turned to roll left. On his second step across the field, the ball squirted loose, hit the quarterback's knee and bounded toward the sideline, some 25 feet away...
Following the anemic second quarter, Harvard came out steaming in the third, driving straight down the field on its first possession to take a brief 16-15 lead. The drive showed Cuccia at his best, scrambling from the snap and passing brilliantly in spite of the Crimson's often-ineffective offensive line...
...team has just kicked a field goal to take a one-point lead early in the fourth quarter. The team has the ball on its own 43, third down with five yards to go. The quarterback of the team takes the snap, looks downfield, sees pursuit coming from the left, dodges right, but is dumped for a nine-yard loss. The punting unit trots on the field...
...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...
...snap was perfect. I didn't look up because all I could think about was getting it off quickly. I kicked it, and I knew it was blocked right away--I mean, I heard the thud. I couldn't believe it because I've never had one blocked before...