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Meanwhile, the Elephants moved quickly for their first score. A blocked punt recovered by Eliot on the Branford 40 set up a snappy six-play touchdown drive, capped by fullback Bob Yager's seven-yard scoring dash. Eillott Topkins' attempted conversion hit the crossbar and bounced back, but the Elephants...
...across the opponent's goal line. However, the object is to score a try as near to the center of the goal posts as possible since, after a try, the player must attempt to convert (for two points) by kicking the ball between the goal posts and over the crossbar from a point directly in front of the spot where he touched it down...
Drop kicks made on the run, punts, and penalty kicks are all worth three points if they go between the goal posts and over its crossbar Free kicks, somewhat of a rarity, are made after catching the ball and shouting "Mark!" while simultaneously grinding one's heel into the ground. If his call is recognized by the referee, the player is allowed to try a conversion which, if good, counts for three points...
...identical fiber glass pole that he borrowed from a rival vaulter (Rice University's Fred Hansen), Pennel soared 16 ft. 3 in. and broke the world record. He is still using that pole. Last week, at the U.S. v. Great Britain track meet in London, Pennel cleared the crossbar at 16 ft. 10¼ in., bettering his own most recent world record of 16 ft. 8¾ in., set ten days earlier...
...mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen of German origin, drove into East Berlin, cached his blonde sweetheart, Helga, in the car in the same way, and roared back to the West under the same peppermint-striped wooden crossbar. Belatedly, the Communists began fitting out the underside of the barrier with steel bars...