Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds between plays (eliminating "stalling" when a team is ahead in the last quarter). Attacking teams may crouch in a "huddle" only 15 seconds giving signals. Shift plays are prohibited unless the attacking team stops a full second between the players, shift and the snapping of the ball from centre. Violation of the 15-second "huddle" rule costs five yards; violation of the one second shift rule, 15 yards...
...Quarterbacks breathed easier. No longer can a team that has just punted pick up a muffed punt and score. The punting team can recover such a punt but the ball is down where muffed...
...electric flood lights they defeated an alumni eleven 5-0 in a night game. Spectators followed the open plays; were puzzled by shadows in line plunges. The traditional grandstand background of spectators, girls, coonskin coats was blotted out. The experiment was deemed unsatisfactory for important games. A white ball was used...
Cheering, screaming frantic fanatics flooded George Herman ("Babe") Ruth with the wildest ovation ever accorded a baseball player. In the eighth inning of a New York game against Washington, Ruth hit a ball pitched by left-handed Thomas Zachary into the right field bleachers. The home-run was Ruth's 60th of the season...
...opening kickoff Andover kicked twice out of bounds and Harvard took the ball in a sustained march down the field from its own 40 yard line. Batchelder scoring the touchdown. In the second quarter again he intercepted a forward pass and ran 25 yards for a second touchdown...