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Word: kickoffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worcester won the game with two quick third period touchdowns. Margarita started the second defensive line in the third quarter and Worcester seemed able to move almost at will through it. Six plays after the kickoff Jim Guglietta smashed through counter to put Worcester ahead...

Author: By George S. Abrans, | Title: Worcester Academy Whips '55 Eleven, 13-0, in Stadium | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...formation means anything without a fast pair of halfbacks to advance the ball consistently on wide plays. Frank Toner and that man with the interrogative surname, Vern Wynott, are both good and fast. Wynott is the Belmont boy who returned a Crimson kickoff for a 90-yard touchdown in the 1949 game, which the Lions...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Columbia to Field Veteran Squad Today | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

Holy Cross took an under-par three minutes to open the scoring. The Crusaders received the opening kickoff, then moved upfield from their own 26 to score in eight plays. Unable to match the Purple's speed, and completely baffied by Charlie Maloy's ball-handling, the Crimson line offered no resistance...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Crusaders Defeat Crimson, 33 to 7 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Fuhrer, Old Song. Kickoff for Berlin's program of pop, brass bands and long-winded propaganda was a giant "peace parade," escorted by heavily-armed young toughs of the East German People's Police. Garbed in their national costumes, 25,000 visiting Reds-including two Irishmen, ten Americans and one lonely New Zealander-joined with 100,000 young Germans in a cheering demonstration. In a welcoming speech, East German President Wilhelm Pieck brought to mind similar occasions under the Nazis, when he hailed "the great Fuhrer [Stalin] who gives the foremost example in the world fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Doves of Berlin | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Army roared back upfield with the following kickoff, only to sputter and stall again as Navy stopped the Cadet runners dead in their tracks. In the closing minutes of the half, Navy went 63 yards for touchdown No. 2, with Zastrow heaving a looping 30-yard pass to End Jim Baldinger, who clawed it away from an Army man in the end zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Annapolis Story | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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