Word: runback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard runback by Guill, Brunonian quarter, of a punt late in the fourth period spelled defeat for the University seconds in their battle with the Brown freshmen at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The final score...
...records of the second half tell a very different story. It was during the third and fourth quarters that Harvard displayed a brand of football that warrants an optimistic outlook. A brilliant runback of the opening kick-off by Hammond was the forerunner of the policy the Crimson backs were to adopt the remainder of the game...
...first half the Maroons gained an unexpected advantage when Vangerbig, who had displaced Cleaves in this department, was outpunted. Although the Tigers had scored early on a long runback of a Chicago punt by Cleaves and again by a 40-yard forward pass which the Princeton veteran nabbed in miraculous fashion, the Chicago team was out-rushing their visitors and their line was immeasurably superior...
...found that there is substantial agreement on a few important points. The ways and means of disseminating these ideas among the alumni and eventually introducing them in the University could then be determined incidentally, nothing welds men together more closely than does a common purpose. Should the Seniors runback upon such an undertaking, their class loyalty would be re-enforced by interest in an idea. RONERT WORMSER '22, February...
During the 1921 season, the newly elected captain scored 17 points, kicking eight goals after touchdowns were made and scoring three goals from field. In the Yale game, it was Buell's 43-yard runback of Aldrich's punt at the end of the third quarter that placed the ball on the Blue 12-yard line, thereby making possible the touchdown for the Crimson two minutes later...