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Word: firsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Harmeson passed to a squat little fellow named Bill Woerner who, falling across Iowa's line, gave Purdue its first Big Ten championship in 33 years. Purdue 7, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Octavius ("Toby") Uansa, a back born in Germany and brought up in Pittsburgh, played the first 14 minutes against Carnegie Tech. When he sat down for a rest the score was 21 to 0. When he trotted to the showers at the end of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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