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Word: runback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the absence of a Chicago punter began to toil. Faced with a high wind, they got off two truly dismal boots, one of them travelling only nine yards from scrimmage. After a good runback by Macdonald, Cohen bucked a couple of times, and then Foley ran through to the six-inch line and went over on the next play...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Chicago Coach Rates Harvard Great Team After 47-13 Rout | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...staged between 67-year-old Pop Warner's Temple boys and 59-year-old Gil Dobie's Boston College boys. Trailing 19-to-26 with less than three minutes to play, Temple zoomed from one end zone to the other in just three plays (a 50-yard runback of a kickoff, an incompleted pass, and then a completed pass), booted the extra point, tied unbeaten Boston College 26-10-26. Each team scored four touchdowns, succeeded in two of its tries for the extra point, kicked wide once, and had one try blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Try | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...last two tallies by the Suavelymen were definitely of the "break" variety, one on an intercepted pass and the other on a long punt runback by fleet, visitor Peck...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Line Great in Cornell Defeat --- Yardlings Lose | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Foster counted again a few moments later when he downed a kickoff in the Commuter end zone, Moore put the cover on with an 80 yard runback of an interception. The offense of neither team was outstanding until the last quarter, when Bullet Joe Kaufman ripped through the Kirkland line for goodsized gains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, KIRKLAND WIN OVER DUNSTER, DUDLEY | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

Other highlights of the clash were a 42-yard scoring runback of a punt by Flash Macdonald and two long pay dashes by Mike Cohen and Ben Smith. These boys are scrapping it out for the "A" spinning back position, key post of the Harlow offense held so long by Vernon Struck, now a backfield coach...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: VARSITY OVERWHELMS SCRUB GRIDMEN, 47-6 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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