Search Details

Word: snapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...rumbled through gaping holes and plunged into the end zone on the third play of the fourth quarter from the four. The touchdown, making the tally Harvard 20. Dartmouth 7, was the last of the game as Lynch's PAT attempt was not good due to a low center snap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Gridders Trounce Dartmouth | 10/28/1972 | See Source »

Like Flip Wilson on NBC, Cosby uses his hour as a showcase for black talent, with some of the best singers and dancers on the tube or anywhere else. They shoot out 1,000 watts every time they snap their fingers-and very nearly short-circuit the tube with electrical overload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...five attempts. The one success coming on a sand wedge from 11 yards out against Rutgers. Anyway, let's get back to the Penn game. Scene: Schoellkoph Field, the Big Red set up for a 25-yard field goal attempt, Murray trots confidently onto the Polyturf. There's the snap, the place-down, Murray approaches and "boom." The projectile rockets forward. Unfortunately, the ballistics are a trite faulty and the ball fails to rise above a line from a point one inch off the ground (on a tee) to a point three inches deep into the posterior of center Paul...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Dake It Or Leave It | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

...third error came with seconds remaining in the third period, as the Sooners gladly picked up another two points thanks to a wild punt snap by the Cadet's center which flew one foot over the desperately reaching arms of the punter and bounded well off the playing field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 'Sooners' Erase Army, 19-0; Cadet Errors Aid Crimson in Victory | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

...trick for the quarterback is to recognize a zone forming while he is retreating into the pocket. In the case of Baltimore's rotating zone, the essential key for Namath was the way the two Colt safeties reacted at the snap of the ball-by bolting to the left. Joe and the Jets tried to counter the zone by using a slot formation (see diagram), in which one wide receiver was slotted inside another on the right side, while the tight end was split wide to the left. When Namath dropped back to pass, the outside receiver, Don Maynard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: HOW TO ATTACK A ZONE DEFENSE | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next