Word: kick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...
...line, then 2 more. Coach Howard Jones sent in one of his ablest passers, Bob McNeish. McNeish, instead of passing, arranged to be on the 3-yd. line when Quarterback Homer Griffith threw the ball. McNeish caught it, took one step for a touchdown. Right Tackle Ernie Smith place-kicked for the extra point. In the third quarter, Notre Dame's Polish Quarterback Jaskwhich fumbled the catch of a quick kick. Erskine recovered for U. S. C. on Notre Dame's 26-yd. line. Six plays, with Sparling, Griffith and Clark carrying the ball, made 25 yd. Griffith...
...fourth down, 4 yd. to the Minnesota goal line, with 36 seconds of the first half to play. Harry Newman dropped back for a high place kick that missed hitting the goalpost by just enough to give Michigan the game which clinched the Big Ten Championship 3-to-0. Nebraska took the championship of the Big Six-Kansas. Oklahoma, Kansas State, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State- by nosing out Oklahoma, 5-to-0, on Masterson's field goal in the third quarter and a safety in the fourth, when Right End Cherry ran back to pick up a pass from...
...Crimson eleven which lost to Yale on a penalty kick and goal that followed when the team was off balance, rates as high as the Blue on previous records, and with the advantage of the home field and a clear day a three point victory, which would give Harvard a clear title to supremacy over Yale, is not improbable for the Crimson booters. Stork, whose absence was a serious handicap last Saturday, will undoubtedly see action tomorrow, though he will not start the game...
...Melinkovich made the longest run of the week, 98 yd. for a touchdown. Added misfortune for Northwestern was what happened to its amiable, hard-plunging halfback. Ernest ("Pug") Rentner; he broke a rib in the first quarter, found out about it at the half. McGuire of Wisconsin caught the kick-off and scuttled 85 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota tied the score. Wisconsin got -another touchdown. Minnesota matched...