Word: five-yard
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...final points came in the last period as John Ederer scored on a five-yard reverse from the single-wing formation...
More fast, tricky playing produced another touchdown, but the Elephants drew a five-yard penalty and were unable to make the score on second try. Charlie Cabot scored the second touchdown in the last quarter, but this conversion, unlike the first, was blocked...
...base stealer than Jackie Robinson, another Montreal alumnus. Last June, Buzzy Bavasi, the eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...
...critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that the incipient hero was actually named Sitko. With scarcely a fractional pause, Stern cried: "Zilly's just thrown a lateral to Sitko!" Sportcaster Ted Husing was still brooding about this when Stern, before starting his current racetrack telecasts from Belmont Park, asked him for pointers. "I can't help...
...freshmen scored first early in the opening period, when big Bob Ray climaxed a long ground drive with a five-yard touchdown run around right end. A play or two before, Ray had provided a 25-yard run which set up the score...