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...those days, for the records show only the one injury, "Keys was kicked in the wind, and the game was sopped for a couple of minutes," a contemporary account states. The only other casualty occurred in the third half-hour when Thompson of Yale fell heavily on the pigskin, which gave the ghost and exploded. Taking a realistic view of the situation, the referee blow the ball up and tossed...
Macdonald also counted the only touchdown of the day via the land route when he galloped 40 yards to pay dirt on a neat piece of broken field running. The game was not a genuine one, however, because the two teams simply alternated carrying the pigskin from the midfield stripe. They each had the ball for groups of five plays...
About 30 Yardling gridiron hopefuls and a smattering of Sophomores were on hand yesterday afternoon to greet Coach Dick Harlow and his assistants in the first official session of spring practice in preparation for the 1939 pigskin parade...
...that it would be nice if Princeton and every other college in the league had similar, standardized pools. If that were true, a team competing away from home would not be confronted with conditions as unfamiliar to them as a crater in a football gridiron would be to the pigskin-pushers...
First there was the regular pigskin season. Then a few teams decided to stage intersectional clashes to prolong the season into December. Shortly some one had the idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...