Word: punt
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...high marks because his father is headmaster; Till can't get low marks because his father is headmaster." A scholarship English major at Brown University ('32), Tillinghast also was second-string center on the football team. His big moment came when he blocked a Colby punt in 1932, producing a safety in a game Brown won 22-0. After that, classmates called him "TwoPoint Tillinghast...
Harvard went ahead to stay three minutes later on the face-off play following a Northeastern penalty. Bobby Clark took the punt from Pete Miller at the edge of the circle and fed Kevin Burke who flipped it into the upper left hand corner from ten feet...
...Back Butch Byrd also had a personal score to settle with Charger End Don Norton, who boasted publicly that he could beat Byrd on passes any time he wanted to. Byrd not only covered Norton like a blanket (Norton caught only one pass all afternoon), he also ran a punt back 74 yds. for Buffalo's second touchdown...
...A.F.L.'s "weak defenses" and "basketball scores," the facts do not bear them out. So far this season, an average of 41 points has been scored in each A.F.L. game; N.F.L. teams have scored an average of 45. The top punter in pro football (at 46.9 yds. per punt) is Gary Collins of the N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns; the next two are American Leaguers. True, the A.F.L. has no runner to match Cleveland's Jimmy Brown. But the American League has at least one superstar of its own: San Diego's Lance ("Bambi") Alworth, the most...
...punt return- and the Bears clawed the Packers 31-10. Minnesota was leading Chicago 37-31 with only 2 min. 18 sec left when Gale gathered in a kickoff on his own 4-yd. line, set sail up the sideline, and simply outran everybody to the goal line. Against the New York Giants last week, Sayers demonstrated the perfect way to run one of pro foot ball's prettiest plays: the halfback option. In the first quarter he started around end, stopped dead in his tracks, and flipped a pass to End Dick Gordon...