Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coach "Hunk" Anderson pre dicted the winners of 14 games last week, including Pittsburgh to beat Notre Dame. Coach Anderson erred in only one choice, but it was not Pittsburgh. Pitt struck two fast, staggering blows in the second period: a 78-yd. run to touchdown by Halfback Sebastian, and a crushing march through the line for another. Twice in the second half Notre Dame fought to Pitt's 8-yd. line, lacked the punch to change the score...
...Navy had to fight Penn every inch of the way through a helter-skelter game in which players stumbled with the ball, fumbled at critical moments, crashed into each other. In the last minutes of play Navy intercepted a Penn pass for a second touchdown, null Northwestern's Halfback Leeper showed bad judgment when he picked up an Ohio State punt instead of letting it roll across his own goal line. He was tackled hard. He fumbled. Ohio State's Quarterback Pincura fell on the ball for a touchdown. In the next period a Northwestern pass from centre...
Restless spectators moved toward the exits and Harvard rooters began celebrating a 7-to-0 victory over Dartmouth as the game drew into its final two minutes. Then a Dartmouth substitute halfback named Bill Clark ripped through tackle, tore 56 yd. to a touchdown. Another substitute, Don Hagerman, coolly kicked the extra point, and Dartmouth squeaked back into the season's undefeated list...
Syracuse saw much more than it wanted of a Michigan State halfback named Kurt Warmbein, who had most to do with giving Syracuse a 27-to-3 lacing...
College Coach (Warner). The problems that confront Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien) in this picture-an attempt to buy real estate and sell it to Calvert College for a new stadium; the interest Mrs. Gore (Ann Dvorak) shows in a ringer halfback; the resentment of Calvert's best player (Dick Powell) when he gets passing marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into...