Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps on the jumping pits, the band struck...
...once the local Varsity proved able to capitalize on its scoring breaks. Playing like babies with a ball through the first theree periods, Captain Powell's men held a 2-2 position in the early minutes of the fourth quarter due to two startling dashes by Jo Johansen. The speedy wing twice outraced the Green fullbacks in the first period, once to tally himself and once to send a scoring pass to Arthur Page...
...quarter, the Crimson picked up its heels. Showing the best stuff they have ever displayed as a group the forward line of Howie Mendel, Arthur Page, Frank Harnden, Tom Motley and Johansen went to town. Mendel opened up the defense with long passes down wind. Harnden repeatedly stole the ball in the Green field to set up plays. Johansen put on added bursts of speed and twice more beat the Green goalie...
Less than a minute remained to play, and a badly frightened Dartmouth third team tried to avoid ignominy by stalling for time, rushing over the line of scrimmage before the ball was snapped in an effort to use up the seconds. Each time the referee would impose a penalty of half way to the goal line--a matter of feet. Things quieted down, however, in time for Oakes to plunge over tackle for the score. Harding kicked the point and the game ended on the play after the kick-off.CHARLES C. BUELL '23 Downed Dartmouth...
With only a few minutes to play, Harvard had capitalized on two breaks to put the ball on the Dartmouth six-yard, line. At that time a third string quarterback was directing the team, and desperately searched through his fund of football lore to see how he could stage off the impending catastrophe. Then he remembered a quarterback's meeting in which he had posed the following question to Blaik...