Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Score to date: Roosevelt, 2; Mussolini, 1; Edward VIII, 1; Farley, 1; Gehrig...
Underrated all season, snowed under by Army and Dartmouth, Harvard rallied amazingly four weeks ago to tie Princeton 14-to-14. Last week, rallying again in the last half of a game apparently lost beyond all hope. Harvard found itself on the way to tying Yale identically. The score, 14-to-0 at the beginning of the third quarter, had become 14-10-7 on Struck's touchdown and conversion. Now, with less than three minutes to play, it was 14-to-13, on a pass from Oakes to Ford. Struck dropped back to kick. The whistle blew...
...ball crossed between the goal posts, Vernon Struck would have been the major hero of last week's biggest football surprise. But the ball spun wide. Four plays later the score was still Yale 14, Harvard 13, the game was over and its hero was a squarejawed, 21-year-old Yale senior who, playing his last college football, had done it in the style he had made famous...
Yale's right end and captain, Lawrence Morgan Kelley, makes a specialty of catching passes. Last week, in the second period, with the score 7-to-0 on Wilson's touchdown and Humphrey's conversion, he was deprived of one good chance to practice it when Yale's ace passer, Clint Frank, dropping back to throw, was tackled on Harvard's 35-yd. line. On the next play, Frank dropped back again and threw a long pass. Kelley raced down the field but caused the Yale stands to give an incredulous groan by just missing...
...football are surprising only when they fail to be. Currently, Kelley is the most famed footballer of the year. This is extraordinary because linemen, even ends, are rarely well-known. The reason most linemen are obscure is that they seldom carry the ball, almost never get a chance to score. Kelley's touchdown against Harvard last week was his 13th in three years...