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Word: center (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball snaps from center, the quarterback takes it, wheels, and flips it to a halfback. The halfback draws back his arm and shoots and oval on an airline to an end far down the field. A frantic dive by the safety man, and a touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...Shakespeare took the pass from center, juggled it a moment, and tossed to Roosevelt. A second to balance himself, and Roosevelt shot a pass on a bullet-like trajectory to Smithers, wing-footed Maroon end. As Smithers, four yards from a touchdown, felt the pigskin against his chest, the lithe form of Codfish Cabot, the doughty little Massachusetts quarterback, hit him amidships, and down he went. Roosevelt crashed the line, but Tiny Timm, giant guard, blocked his way. Again Roosevelt drove, and this time over the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...Napoeon's strategy at the battle of Austerlitz applicable to defensive tactics on the football field, communicated with Head Coach Forbes his plan for stopping the line-crashing Penn guard. The attacks of the Austrian army and the Quaker eleven were analogous, both directing a powerful blow at the center of the opposing line. To substitute ends and tackles of a gridiron machine on the defense for the little Corporal's cavalry was a natural step, and the center could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French center was strengthened by the reserves. Head Coach Forbes could then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard "Head Coaches" Eleven of 1898 Downed West Point 28 to 0 | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...Tarheel end considered the Harvard wings as the weakest factor on the team, the tackles as average, and the guards as the best men in the Crimson forward wall. Schwartz, he said, found little or no trouble in breaking through the center to nail line plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tarheel End Finds Guarnaccia Hardest to Stop of Crimson Backfield Stars-Coach Collins Lauds Charging of Forwards | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

HARVARD 185 168 175 GUARNACCIA HARPER FRENCH Right Halfback Fullback Left Halfback 170 PUTNAM Quarterback 188 212 185 185 190 190 175 DOUGLAS CLARK W. TICKNOR B. TICKNOR TRAINER BARRETT PICKARD Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Center Left Guard Left Tackle Left End 177 195 175 180 185 180 175 SAPP HOWARD BLACKWOOD SCHWARTZ SCHULER FARRIS HOLT Left End Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Right End 150 WHISNANT Quarterback 162 165 166 WARD FOARD SPAULDING Left Halfback Fullback Right Halfback NORTH CAROLINA

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TARHEELS INVADE CAMBRIDGE AFTER 12 YEARS ABSENCE | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

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