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Word: runback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia played Stanford in Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Score was Columbia 7, Stanford 0. Last week, hunting revenge, a Stanford team that had tied University of Washington went to New York City to play a Columbia team beaten by Army, Michigan, Dartmouth. Score, on George Furey's runback of the opening kickoff, was again Columbia 7, Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

McCllelland, Eli right half, was easily the star of the game. He scored twice at the climax of long marches. The other Yale touchdowns came as a result of a pass, and a 72 yard runback of an intercepted pass in the final period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Minute Bailing Against Navy Fails to Keep Crimson Craft Afloat | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Duke's Wallace Wade has ever beaten a team coached by Tennessee's Bob Neyland at Knoxville. Undefeated Duke last week kept its hopes of a national championship intact until two minutes before the game ended. Then Tennessee Halfback Thomas ("Red") Harp's 70-yd. runback of a Duke punt wrecked them, saved the Tennessee jinx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Coming out for the last quarter 13 points behind, Notre Dame scored on Andy Pilney's runback of a kick, a pass to Gaul, a line plunge by Miller. After the kickoff, Notre Dame worked its way to the Ohio State one-yard line and fumbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football: Mid-season | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...games that sent the season into full swing last week, the most spectacular single play was a 90-yd. runback of North Carolina's first kick-off by Krouse of Tennessee. A point behind at halftime, Tennessee managed to pound out a touchdown in each of the last two periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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