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...allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection of a five-yard safety zone until the ball is caught. Long run-backs, as a result, are few and far between. Hocus-Pocus. Despite the warm (70°) Toronto weather, last week's game was a satisfactory curtain raiser for the Canadian football season. Both teams cut loose with some...
...Yardlings' first score came on a five-yard pass, Joslin to Tony Gianelly, that climaxed a 62 yard drive. The Crimson had driven into Dartmouth territory after the kickoff following the second Indian score, but were forced to kick. Dartmouth could not move, and kicked, the ball rolling dead on Harvard...
...facts of the play were these: Penn, trailing 17 to 14, tried a fourth-down pass from the Columbia five-yard line. The forward was completed, but the receiver failed to make the yardage necessary for a first down: Columbia had held. But off in one corner of the end zone, far from the play, a Columbia halfback pushed a Penn end. That, according to the rules, is pass-interference. Following the book, the officials gave the ball to Penn on the Columbia one-yard line. The Quakers went on to score and break up the game...
Despite a five-yard kick in the third period, Dick Clasby had an impressive punting average of 37 yard in five attempts. Not counting the five-yard kick, Clasby was averaging better than 44 yards per kick...
...Lowell passing attack began to click in the third period as Ted Briggs caught a 30-yard pass from Bruce White. The Bellboys scored on the next play with a five-yard pass from Bob Lown to Tom Johnson...