Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doughty and Goose Gosline are scheduled to start at fullback, unless the doctor gives the go ahead signal to injured Joe Bradley, while Put Williams hopes to have the ball visit him as little as possible around the goal...
...Eliot eleven opened their bag of tricks early in the fray, trying a sleeper play right after they had received the opening kickoff. The play failed, however, and on fourth down the Elephants fumbled the ball due to a poor pass from center, and the Lowell team chalked up a safety...
...maddest sport spectacles that Atlanta ever saw. Georgia Tech's football team, which had been unscored on while scoring 119 points in its first three games this season, lined up against Duke University's powerful team. In the first five minutes of the game Duke took the ball in midfield and rolled forward in eleven plays to its first touchdown. That march was a sample of what the final statistics were to show-Duke gained 200 yards by rushing to Georgia Tech's 79-but it gave no idea of the final score...
...minutes after Duke's first demonstration of power, Georgia Tech took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece...
...teams in years, was also distinguished by the most dazzling play of the week. In the third quarter, Syracuse's dusky Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, reputedly the only Hindu footballer in the U. S., caught a pass from his teammate, Olympic Sprinter Marty Glickman, faded back and hurled the ball high over the Cornell tacklers, apparently into space but actually into the waiting hands of the same Marty Glickman, who a few plays later was able to make his second touchdown of the day. Syracuse 14, Cornell...