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...margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale's 24-yd. line, on third down, Morton decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Madison Sayles '27, former University end and fullback made the first score for the victors in the Coaches' game; and the other was made at the opening of the second half by J. G. Cassedy '33 on an 80-yard runback of the kickoff. The one extra point was awarded on an offside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACHES WIN FROM SECONDS AS 1932 LOSES TO TECH SOPHOMORES | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

...yard runback by Guill, Brunonian quarter, of a punt late in the fourth period spelled defeat for the University seconds in their battle with the Brown freshmen at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONG DASH SPELLS DOOM OF UNIVERSITY SECONDS, 13 TO 6 | 11/12/1927 | See Source »

...records of the second half tell a very different story. It was during the third and fourth quarters that Harvard displayed a brand of football that warrants an optimistic outlook. A brilliant runback of the opening kick-off by Hammond was the forerunner of the policy the Crimson backs were to adopt the remainder of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM SHOWS MIXTURE OF GOOD AND BAD | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...first half the Maroons gained an unexpected advantage when Vangerbig, who had displaced Cleaves in this department, was outpunted. Although the Tigers had scored early on a long runback of a Chicago punt by Cleaves and again by a 40-yard forward pass which the Princeton veteran nabbed in miraculous fashion, the Chicago team was out-rushing their visitors and their line was immeasurably superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE OF THE STRONGEST UNDEFEATED TEAMS IN EAST | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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