Word: runback
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...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...
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...
...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...
...Harry Field (223 Ib.) and Adolphe Schwammel (214 Ib.), each seize one leg of huge Clyde Devine, hoist him into the air to block the kick (see cut). Against Oregon, the play worked well. Against Fordham last week, it worked again. After Red Franklin's amazing 93-yd. runback of the kickoff for a touchdown, Fordham marched steadily to a tying touchdown in the second period. Danowski dropped back to kick for the extra point. Huge Devine popped up like a jumping jack. Danowski's kick went wide. Last year, Fordham beat Oregon State 8-to-6. Last...
Lacking the snap and jauntiness which the underdog Dartmouth team evinced, the Crimson eleven disappointed its followers by getting into the swing only once, and that just after Pescosolido's superb 93-yard touchdown runback. The Harvard squad was crippled, to be sure, in the second half, but that cannot serve as an excuse for the poor showing put on as a whole by Casey's players, even in the face of a Big Green team which refused to be beaten...