Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorites to win the championship, the undefeated Chicago Bears, defending champions, have this season made a scoring record: 286 points to their opponent's 86 in 13 games. The Giants, second only to the Green Bay Packers as a forward-passing team, have won eight games, lost five. In earlier games this season the Chicago Bears have beaten the Giants twice, 27-to-7 in Chicago, 10-to-9 in New York, with a field goal in the last 50 seconds...
Rules. Less colorful than college football and lacking cheering sections, mascots and goalpost scuffles, the professional game is faster, rougher, technically more spectacular. Forward passing is permitted anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. Goal posts are on the goalline. A League regulation holds each team down to 22 players...
...Harvard men, Captain G. Frederick Stork '35, at left outside forward, and Theodore Roosevelt, 3d. '36, at right halfback, have found places on the second All-Eastern Soccer Team which the Associated Press released Thursday. Bill Jeffrey, coach of undefeated Penn State chose two teams of star players and selected the Harvard men although he had not seen them in action...
...other Indian leaders silently bookworming through Lord Linlithgow's 350 pages last week, Indian editors, according to their mood, either admitted "we shall have to bear it" (Hindustan Times) or blazed "fling the Report back in the teeth of those having the audacity to offer it!" (Bombay Forward...
Stripper Corio explained her principles: "I don't like to be called a Stripper. In fact it absolutely galls me. But as long as they give me the money, that's all I look forward to. ... Why should I give up my percentage of the gross for $100 a week and glory? * . . . Where are all the Broadway beauties now? When I finish I'll have a bankroll...