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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specializing in a particularly devastating pass rush, the forwards have also shown crunching, precise, double teaming, good enough to let the backfield pile up the best offensive record in the league...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...arena, and the modern behemoths, most patterned in some detail after it, with all their showy extravagance, can not eclipse the history it contains.Shown in an aerial view, the Crimson football team meets Army in a 1929 encounter. The varsity tied the Cadets, 20 to 20, on a desperation pass play, in one of the greatest encounters in Stadium history. The great Barry Wood, then a sophomore and an alternate quarterback, teamed with starter Putnam to complete seven out of 12 passes for 168 yards. Wood also contributed two extra points. Army's immortal Chris Cagle, who was so good...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Nation's Oldest Stadium Has Colorful Past | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Oren Harris (D-Ark.), turning off a House investigation of quiz show rigging, said today Congress should pass new laws to assure program honesty and take a hard look at other channels of television activity...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: UN Questions Laotian Charges That Chinese Invaded Viet Nam; Harris Seeks TV Practices Law | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...roughness" forced President Theodore Roosevelt to institute a new set of rules in 1906, one of the proposed changes was to make fields a full 40 yards wider. This move would have changed the whole character of football, turning it into a Rugby-type game, with more lateral passing and sideways running. Harvard protested, however, that such an innovation would outdate its six-year-old Stadium, and the rule-making body decided to institute the forward pass instead of the wider field...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Nation's Oldest Stadium Has Colorful Past | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5--Robert E. Kinter, admitting his own National Broadcasting Co. had been victimized by quiz show fakery, suggested Thursday that Congress pass a law to jail TV program cheaters...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: NBC President Makes Proposal To Jail Quiz Program 'Cheaters'; Noel-Baker to Get Peace Prize | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

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