Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coach at Providence in 1926. With an untried line, Penn faced the famed Brown "Iron Men" nervously. Through the first half both teams kicked steadily, hoping for a fumble on the wet field. There was no score. Brown took a desperate chance in the third quarter, throwing a forward pass deep in home territory. Folwell Scull intercepted, scored. Brown recovered a fumbled kick, made a touchdown; failed to kick the goal. Penn marched 60 yards for another score; won the game...
...first four minutes and again in the second period. From then on he was savagely on the defensive; turning back in the final period three separate desperate lunges on the threshold Of his own goal. In the last three minutes the game was apparently lost when a forward pass floated over the Bulldog's goal into enemy arms. But the play was not allowed as the enemy was out of the end zone. Thus the Bulldog of Georgia beat the Bulldog of Yale for the first time in their four years' fighting...
...exceptions, the private affairs of members of the University have, when known, been kept inviolate. But the resignation of the managership of the University football team by Winslow Carlton '29, with the purpose of devoting more time to his studies, is too significant of a new order to pass without mention...
...most startling improvement. The Crimson forwards mopped up in workman-like fashion on most plays and were mopped up on a very small minority of plays. An epitome of the new spirit in the line was presented in the second period. Drais, Holy Cross end, took a long pass from Ryan and was thrown on the three-yard chalk-mark. For three downs the wall of Crimson jerseys held like a concrete abutment, and Clancy had to divenover the scrimmage line to tally the Purple's only points on the fourth play...
...abandon with which the Crimson tossed forward passes to the winds and the success attending these attempts was surprising. A. E. French '29 and Crosby made star catches of difficult pass chances, and the Crimson's second touchdown came on a long toss from David Guarnaccia '29 to A. O. Fordyce '28, who had only three yards to run. The few lateral passes attempted worked smoothly...