Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five. All in all, "Babes in Arms" is a top-flight musical, has a plot with a kick, songs with some oomph and Rooney. Wonders will never cease...
...fourth quarter the Redskins got going, scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Then, with only 45 seconds to play, the score 9-to-7 and the ball on the 16-yard line, Coach Ray Flaherty, realizing that a field goal was the Redskins' only hope, sent in Beau Russell to placekick. The ball sailed between the uprights-so most of the spectators thought. But Referee Bill Halloran thought otherwise, ruled the kick wide. To the tune of the worst booing ever heard in the historic old Polo Grounds, the Giants marched off with the Eastern championship...
...band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts on a terrific show, plays an easy bounce style of dance music, and has excellent soloists. Jimmy Young (trombone) ranks in the top three...
...Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked...
...highlight of the game was Joe Phelan's thrilling catch of a Yale penalty kick in the fourth quarter. It was this save more than anything else that inspired the Yardlings to stop those last minute Blue drives at any cost...