Word: touchback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory as the visitors struck for two fourth-quarter tallies. After grinding along the ground for one hard-won touchdown, Morse-Stiles picked up a cheap score on the following kick-off. The ball bounced untouched into the end zone, and instead of downing it for the touchback, Mather's players watched as the Yale squad covered for a touchdown...
There were the not-so-good things; the Paul Sablock option shot-put in the first quarter, five carries all day for Wayne Moore, Fred Cordova's refusal to take a touchback on his interception, and of course, justifying a loss to Columbia when you haven't had to do so for seven years...
...Touchback Time...
...safety came when a Terrier running back was tackled in his end zone--on the first play from scrimmage after a B.U. punt receiver had been tackled on his own two-yard line. He had tried to run with the ball, rather than opt for the touchback. "He was trying to be a hero, and he goofed," Restic said...
...game when the Huskies' Al Mello got off a bad punt which left Harvard at the Northeastern 40-yard line. Four running plays later, with the ball resting on the Huskies' seven, quarterback Rod Foster rolled right and hit Northeastern's Tom Rezziti in the end-zone for a touchback...