Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Receiving the ball shortly after the opening whistle, the Freshmen marched steadily down the gridiron, breaking through the schoolboy forward wall, and gaining heavily on an occasional aerial thrust. Hitch finally broke from the scrimmage line and dashed forty yards for a touchdown. The try for point failed, and the scoring was ended for the first half...
...lone Standish score came in the last minute of play, when a back broke through the Smith line. Thinking that the whistle had blown, the Smith defense made no attempt to stop the runner, who ran fifteen yard for a touchdown...
...Boland broke his leg. Fred Collins broke his jaw. But even with its biggest tackle and its fullback hurt, Notre Dame had dash enough left to beat Minnesota...
...Meantime, the continent was being domed as a whole. In this way sliding-slopes, directed toward the primitive Pacific Ocean, which was then larger than now, were generated...At last, about the middle of the Mesozoic Era, the unique continent finally succumbed to the pull toward the Pacific. It broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength...
...beginning of the next period Clark, Crimson left halfback, stopped the Purple advance by intercepting a pass. A Crimson offence ended in a fumble, and a few moments later Pratt and Kilgour broke through and blocked a kick which Pratt recovered on the two-yard line. Miller drove with terrific power into the middle of two lines heaped in the mass and succeeded in moving the obstruction enough for the touchdown. Sayles again booted the goal, ending the scoring for the first half...