Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball crossed between the goal posts, Vernon Struck would have been the major hero of last week's biggest football surprise. But the ball spun wide. Four plays later the score was still Yale 14, Harvard 13, the game was over and its hero was a squarejawed, 21-year-old Yale senior who, playing his last college football, had done it in the style he had made famous...
...ball. On third down, Frank passed again, this time from Harvard's 48-yd. line. Sprinting down the field, Kelley turned his head at the 10-yd. line and found the ball where it belonged, right above his shoulder. He tucked it under his arm, sprinted across the goal line. A moment later, Humphrey's place-kick brought what turned out to be the winning point...
Stanford's stocky Tony Calvelli may have thrown them just as straight but California's Vic Bottari had better receivers. Henry Sparks started things in the second quarter with a one-hand circus grab on the goal line and after that his teammates snaggled every pass they saw, not caring which Italian boy was throwing them. To California: 20 points, the Pacific Coast's traditional Big Game, plus a special trophy, the famed Stanford Ax. To Stanford...
...Yale games is that when Yale has a good team, Princeton wins; when Princeton has a good team. Yale wins. Operation of that rule at Princeton last week was the least contradictory feature of the wildest, fastest, most astonishing Yale-Princeton football game on record. Sandbach's field goal and White's two touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass by Frank to Captain Larry...
...attempt for point after, from where we were it looked like a good one. It doesn't go up and it doesn't go up on the scoreboard. My last jubilant croak dies in the aesophagus. Sudden and blinding revelation. It was no goal...