Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where before it had been in doubt as to which side would emerge with the ball after a play, this convention also arranged that if the team in possesison elected not to kick and did not fumble it might retain the ball indefinitely. Princeton early showed the fallacy of this rule by clinging to the ball through the entire game, thus forcing a draw. A later ruling brought with it the modern system of downs...
...First half-hour--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again, Yale again kicks, and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field...
...Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop-kick. The ball sails squarely for the post, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-ropes. Yale kicks out, and the half terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
...Interdormitory football series with a score of 7-0. M. P. Billings brought in the tally for Gore by picking up a fumbled ball from the Standish eleven and carrying it 20 yards to the touchdown. R. P. Field put the ball over and through on a difficult kick against a strong wind...
...yesterday's drill, the last secret practice of the year, Coach Fisher scheduled work identical with that of the previous days. A long signal drill, a dummy scrimmage with more than usual emphasis laid on the breaking up of drop kick formations, filled the afternoon. As before, the seconds opposed both Teams A and B with an array of Yale formations...