Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process of pummeling the Harvard jayvees, 46 to 0, yesterday morning on Soldiers Field, Army's spirited junior varsity football team scored seven times and had four more touchdowns nullified for various infractions of the rules...
After one set of plays, Lowenstein punted from his own 22--the slim sophomore was kicking because both Charley Roche and Carl Bottenfield had been cocked out of the game in the first six minutes--and Army's Hal Shultz ran it to the Harvard 45. Seven plays later the swiftly-moving Cadets had scored again; this time a fake-pass-and-run by Galiffa (good for 20 yards) and two runs by Jim Cain (8 and 9 yards, the latter to score) did the damage. Jack Mackmull converted for the third time...
Again the Army defense crushed Crimson attempts to move, hitting Bill Healey (replacing the injured John White) for a three-yard loss on the 20 and then trapping Jim Noonan all the way back on the seven. Lowenstein punted out only to his 28, but Don Cass recovered an Army fumble before the Cadets could get going, and the quarter ended with the ball in Harvard's hands...
Healey gained 20 yards on a beautiful broken-field run, carrying to the Crimson 43; but Harvard thereafter failed to gain, and Lowenstein punted all the way to the Army seven...
...great leaping catch of a Noonan pass by Stretch Mazzone, who was injured on the play and removed for the afternoon. Noonan then fumbled for the second time on his 27. Three plays--a run by Jack Martin, a pass from Bob Blaik to Vic Pollock, and a seven-yard plunge by Pollock--made the score 27 to 0. Mackmull converted...