Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the score tied, 6-to-6 in the third quarter. Brown's Center Payne sent a pass that went over the heads of the backfield, rolled to his 11-yd. line where a Brown man accidentally kicked it. Awarded possession of the ball, Harvard promptly punched over the winning touchdown...
Because Notre Dame had failed not only to win a game but even to score a point for more than a month, 20 members of the squad carried rabbits' feet to last week's encounter with Northwestern. Luck had nothing to do with the result, 7-to-0. Notre Dame battled fiercely for its victory, gained 256 yd. to Northwestern's 46, 13 first downs to Northwestern...
...Southern Association announced adoption of a new rule: When there are two out. and the pitcher walks the batter on four consecutive balls, "runners occupying bases shall be advanced two bases, except in the event both second base and third base are occupied, when the runner on third shall score and the runner on second shall advance to third...
Roberta (adapted by Otto Harbach from Alice Duer Miller's Gowns by Roberta, score by Jerome Kern; Max Gordon, producer) is another gallant try at making a handsome, funny and affecting play with music and dancing, girls and dresses. Plot: a U. S. college boy loses his girl because she thinks he is "small-town." To forget her, he visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn...
Flashing a brand of football that it has shown only very rarely this season, the Varsity eleven administered a trouncing to the Blue outfit on the historic gridiron of the Stadium, and emerged victorious by the largest score since Eddie Mahan's club...