Word: punt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year more than the jug was at stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...
Near the end of the first half, brilliant Bruce Smith, 200-lb. triple-threat, got off a 78-yd. punt, then threw a 43-yd. forward pass that put Minnesota on Michigan's 5-yd. line. Smith was injured on the next play, but his teammates scored for a 7-to-0 lead that the Wolverines were unable to budge. It was Minnesota's eighth successive victory over Michigan. More impor tant, Minnesota is now in a place where, if it gets by Northwestern this week, it should beat its remaining opponents (Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin), should deserve...
...morass of Crimson jerseys. HARVARD-NAVY STATISTICS H N Points Scored 0 0 First Downs 5 12 Net Gain Rushing 71 164 Passes Attempted 11 9 Passes Completed 2 2 Gained by Passes 37 22 Passes Intercepted by 0 2 Gained by Interceptions 0 13 Number of Punts 13 12 Average Punts 37 38 Punt Runbacks 15 36 Number of Penalties 1 3 Yards Penalized...
Lowell was not to be stopped. Sorlein returned the punt to the Funster's 17, and on the next play Felmeth heaved a touchdown pass to right end Bob Axtell. Felmeth's pass to Sorlein failed for the exera point, and the game ended 30 seconds later, Lowell victor...
Most brilliant play of the game came in the second period when Penny Pendleton of Exeter grabbed a Harvard punt on his own 45-yard line and scampered 55 yards to cross the goal line standing up. Not one Crimson player got close enough for a tackle...