Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the opening kickoff, Michigan's Wolverines took a calculated risk. They knew it would take something special to stop the versatile multiple offense (TIME, Oct. 8) of Coach Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State powerhouse. Almost as if they had never heard of mousetrap blocks, Michigan's linemen wore themselves out firing into the State backfield. Ends slashed hard and fast at the ball carrier, linebackers gambled and charged headlong into offensive holes. For half the game the tactic worked. Until they put on one sustained 45-yd. drive late in the second quarter, the Spartans gained...
...ensuing kickoff, the Jumbos moved the ball well, and were able to retain possession of it until there were but two minutes left in the game. At that point, the Crimson moved from its own 32 to Tufts 42, but there the attack failed and with it the game...
Yale faced the kickoff, and the habitually slow-starting Crimson immediately found that Yale football players McGill, Loucks, and Tarasovic were difficult men to stop. Had they been able to pass as well as run, the Elis might have built up an early lead...
California plunged straight into Crimson territory after the kickoff, and had scored twice within the first six minutes. (8 to 0). Joslin put the Crimson back in the game, however, with a fine 15 yard run. He made no mistake with the easy conversion...
...mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain knowledge that polio...