Word: crossbar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play which came within an ace of being called back for an offside, while the second was on the most beautiful shot of the afternoon, a whistling liner which traveled a quarter of the length of the field and just snaked into the the net under the crossbar...
Eliot's courageous Elephants came through in the pinches to gain their first victory in the last game of the House football season winning from Leverett, 7 to 6, when Bunny Hunt Hamill's kick for the extra point hit the crossbar and bounced back into the playing field...
...handlebars like a motorcycle, a footboard on which the driver puts his feet, an enclosed engine housing over the rear wheel on which he sits. Unlike either bicycle or motorcycle, it can be ridden sitting straight up, with a minimum loss of dignity. The rider straddles no crossbar, has no engine between his knees to oil his slacks...
...Bellboys wasted no time, and after only a minute and a half of play, right halfback Gooder intercepted a pass and ran 30 yards for a touchdown. The extra point hit the crossbar and bounced over...
...record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford-U.S.C. dual meet they soared 14 ft. 8 ½in. Three weeks later at the Pacific Coast Conference meet they vaulted 14 ft. 11 in., quit then simply because the crossbar could not be extended higher. As host for the N.C.A.A. meet last week, the University of California erected new standards 15 ft. 6 in. high. Somewhat psychic, Sefton and Meadows both correctly guessed before the meet that their four-year doubling streak might not last. They explained: "People are looking...