Word: field-goal
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With a bare two minutes left, Mayo pulled off the flashiest play of the game: apparently kneeling to hold a field-goal try on fourth down, he carefully kept his knee off the ground, rose to fire a 21-yd. strike to Quinlan to put the Air Force on the Army 21. But when a real field-goal try failed, Mayo and the Air Force had to settle...
...against a Crimson team that was trying to put the finishing touches on an undefeated season. The two elevens battled away on even terms through most of the game, the Crimson failing to capitalize on a 95-yard runback of the opening kickoff and Booth missing a field-goal try early in the second quarter...
...watched tensely as the high-jump bar was set, missed his first two tries, then rolled cleanly across on his last chance, set a new world indoor record of 6 ft. 11¼ in. at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus games in Boston. ¶ To encourage more college field-goal kicking, the N.C.A.A. rules committee widened the space between the goal posts 4 ft. 10 in. to 23 ft. 4 in., first goalpost width change in football history...
Baltimore's Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...
Unitas had to do the job against the toughest defense in pro football. The Giants' defensive team had already blocked a Colt field-goal try, smeared Unitas himself at crucial moments, made a devastating goal-line stand inside its own 5-yd. line and had roared back from a 14-3 half-time deficit on the wings of aging (37) Quarterback Charley Conerly's passes for two touchdowns...