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Adams' first tally was set up in the first period by a pass from Bobby James to Walt Jenkins on the ten-yard line. James scored the touchdown on an off-tackle smash. The second score was made in the last ten seconds of play. Parkie Pitts intercepted a Leverett pass on the Bunny 30-yard line, and lateraled to "Cully" Culliton, who scampered 35 yards to score. A James-to-Healy pass made the conversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD COAST HOPES RISE AS COMMUTERS TIE WINTHROP | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

McAuliff, Deacons back, accounted for his team's only counter in the second half when he scored on a ten-yard end run. "One-Man-Gang" Addington did most of the ball carrying to set up this touchdown. "Moose" Shattuck was the star for the Dormitory team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormitory Eleven Deadlocks Kirkland Team in 6-6 Tie | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...eagle-eye who can spot false teeth at a ten-yard glance is Boston Dentist Simon Myerson, brother of famed Harvard Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. Every time gentle, absent-minded Dr. Myerson sees a mouthful of neat, dead-white false teeth, he shudders. Five years ago, Dr. Myerson was struck all of a heap. He called in his eldest son, Martin, a ceramist, and got busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unspottable Teeth | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...line in, and then shot a diagonal pass to Green, who was finally pulled down on the 40. A play later and "Flash" Macdonald was off on a tackle slant. Picking up speed despite the field, he went deep into enemy territory and was finally forced out on the ten-yard line...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Downs Stubborn Bulldog, 7-0 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...touchdown? And how we got two goals from the field and were able again by a perfectly executed play to carry the ball over the goal line? Again how in the last quarter Yale tried the much-heralded Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball to our ten-yard line? And how in the last few minutes, as Yale was going to try a goal from the field, they became confused and were unable to get it off before time was called? And then the glorious times that followed--but these are too numerous to write about...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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