Word: lyne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four periods of the hardest football seen on Soldiers Field all year, the Mastodons had firmly convinced all observers of their superiority, as they scored a bloody 8 to 2 win over a rough and tough Deacon squad. Hard-running Austie Lyne, Jumbo right-half, climaxed a 58-yard march with the game-winning off-tackle plunge from the one-yard stripe into the second period...
After a scoreless first period, in which Lowell failed to score from the Bellboys' one-yard line, right halfback Austie Lyne intercepted a Lowell forward pass on his own 20, and raced for a touchdown...
Winning Lineups: Eliot: le, Abbot; lt, Fischer; lg, Quisenberry; c, England; rg, Adams; rt, Cobb; re, Carroll; qb, McGiffert; lhb, Eckleberry; rhb, Lyne; fb, Galfin, Owen, Wheeler...
Held scoreless for three periods, the Eliot attack finally broke loose for two late scores. Quarterback Dave McGiffert passed to Austie Lyne for a 75-yard scorin play, and a few minutes later Lyne climaxed a second march by crashing through right tackle from the one-yard line for the clincher...
...broke however in the third canto when three different Jumbo backs crossed the double striped chalk line into the end zone. Austie Lyne opened the deluge, sweeping around end for six points and the first touchdown...