Word: touchback
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...kickoff was received by Harvard, and another opportunity offered to score when Bates muffed Mahan's punt on her 25-yard line. Two forward passes, however, were incomplete, and the ball finally lost on a touchback. Another exchange of punts and a 15-yard penalty when Bradlee was caught holding, made it Bates' ball in Crimson territory for the first time. Two forward passes on a "line" formation with three men wide at the right were incomplete, and after two more punts and a few profitable line plunges by Bates, the half was over with the ball on Harvard...
...purpose of interpreting doubtful questions of the game. No radical changes were made but several points which have occasioned discussion after the big games of previous years were definitely settled. Hereafter a free kick hitting the goal posts and bounding back onto the field of play automatically becomes a touchback just as if after an ordinary punt...
Early in the game, Captain Henry of Brown got away around Colby's right end for a 15-yard run and a touchdown, but fumbled in crossing the line, giving Colby a touchback on her recovery of the ball behind the goal. Brown will play the University a week before the Yale game...
...case of a touchback the ball will be put in play from the 20-yard line instead of the 25-yard line...
...After a touchback play will start on the 20-yard line instead of on the 25-yard line as heretofore. The committee believes that there will be no opportunity to revive the old mass style of play because of the rule which prevents the man with the ball from receiving any aid in the form of pushing or pulling...