Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fullback Chip Gannon leads in the overall Varsity ground-gaining department with only two games remaining on the 1948 football schedule. The Chipper has clicked off 371 yards in 74 tries, rushing 63 times for 362 yards and completing one pass for nine yards...
With George Galphin cracking into the line and Jim Rossiter shooting his pop-fly passes, they rumbled--somewhat saltingly--down the field to a first down on the 25. Three plays failed to make ground and Rossiter appeared to be trapped on his fourth down desperation pass attempt but he wriggled loose from several tacklers and threw a long, high, floppy pass to Harvey Guild who caught it over a Deacon defender's head deep in the end zone for a touchdown. Rossiter screen-passed for the extra point, making the halftime score...
Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...
...fourth period, played in a persistent drizzle, included a blocked kick by Eliot, a fumble by Kirkland, and an Eliot pass caught just out of the end zone. The period ended with Kirkland ten yards from a touchdown after a sixty yard drive...
Five hundred boys from Boston settlement houses will watch the Varsity-Brown football game this Saturday when the HAA and Phillips Brooks House pass out ten-cent ducats to local boys' club members...