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Several times the Crimson team fought its way down the field only to be repulsed before pay-dirt, and did not bog down until the third quarter, when they lost the ball on downs near the Yale 15 yard line. Phil Neagle and Sam May, Crimson linemen, sparked a defensive which stopped the winners running plays cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD COASTER ELEVEN DROPS HOUSE GRID CROWN TO YALE | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Minnesota is accustomed to good football teams. The State is full of husky farm boys who make powerful linemen, powerful backs. When Minnesota gets a smart quarterback, to boot, it invariably has a great team. This year Minnesota has such a quarterback: Bobby Paffrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titanic Gophers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Tulane, Coach Shaughnessy used to make slow-charging linemen jump by firing a peashooter at the seat of their pants. At Stanford, he has needed no peashooter. The Indians, delighted with waltz-time football, have carried out his strategies with metronomic precision, have turned out to be the Cinderella team of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Waltz Time | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...outstanding performance of the year in Soldiers Field. His savage running gave Harvard one touchdown, and his resourceful quarterbacking accounted for the other. When Harvard was driving deep in Brown's territory late in the fourth quarter, an over-shifting Brown defense made it all but impossible for Harvard linemen to clear the way on power plays...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Spreyer Sparks 14-0 Bruin Killing As Crimson Hits on All Cylinders | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...this week. The arrangement of having Steve Mailett desert his tackle post to do the team's booting last Saturday proved none too good. Any hope of a deceptive running attack was stifled by the presence of a lineman in the Crimson backfield and vice-versa. Consequently the Dartmouth linemen smashed in at the kicker, rushing him, and the safety man always had plenty of interference to make things easier for him on his runbacks. With O'Donnell in the kicking post the threat of an end sweep or line play is considerably enhanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's His Number? | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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