Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half, much of it through an unexplored forest which rose "like a dark, dense colonnade." Pigmies assailed them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...
...Indians scored first in the second period on two pass plays. On the first play after the ensuing kickoff, Dartmouth recovered a Crimson fumble and scored again through the line a few plays later...
Although the Crimson had possession of the ball for most of the third period, neither side managed to score, but just after the fourth period began, Potter got his second goal of the afternoon on a long pass from Aguirre. Taking the ball away from an Amherst halfback, Aguirre lofted a long boot from midfield which fell just in front of the Amherst goalie. Potter knocked it out of his hands and into the goal for the winning margin...
...Eliot rout four different men scored the four six pointers and the Jumbos were threatening once again, deep in Yardling territory, as the game ended. Dick Coe and Tener Eckleberry countered in the first half on brief runs. A Dave McGiffert to Dave Abbot pass opened the second half scoring and a Dave Wheeler run traveling 70 yards over center closed...
...like the best happened shortly after the kickoff in the Maritime game. Boston had told them before the game to play conservative, tight football, but in the first quarter the Jayvees found themselves stalled with a first down on their own four. The quarterback called for a double reverse pass, trickiest play in the book, and on the end of the reverse Dave Farrell, the team's passing star, threw a long one to Bill Fitz on the 50-yard line. Fitz went all the way for a touchdown...