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Word: tossings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the Crimson just eleven plays to march the eighty yards between them and the goal the first time they get possession of the pigskin. Wayno Johnson and Cleo O'Donnell took turns running the ball to the Dartmouth 32, and there Wayne faded back to toss a pass over the Indian safety man to Cleo, who went over the goal line standing up. For good measure Cleo held the ball while Wayne kicked the extra point...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: DARTMOUTH FRESHMEN TOP ERRATIC YARDLING TEAM 19-13 | 11/12/1940 | See Source »

Michigan won the toss. Tom Harmon caught the kickoff, ran the ball back to Michigan's 30-yard line. In three plays, he and Bob Westfall made first down. Westfall drove through left tackle for 20 yards to put the ball on Illinois's 34. Two more first downs and the ball was on Illinois's 12. Then, while Coach Zuppke's boys scrambled to cover Harmon, Little Dave Nelson scooted around right end on a double reverse, ran twelve yards for a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greater Than Grange | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...lethargy and give Harvard and Princeton an eyeful of what he has been known to do. Bud Kast, a starter against F. and M. and Columbia also may see considerable action. Although inexperienced, he is very shifty in an open field and is a good passer. It was his toss to Wolfe that scored against Yale. Joe Arico, fastest man in the backfield, comes nearest to being a climax runner, and may also play as a halfback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wolfe, Young, O'Brien to Lead Big Green in Stadium Clash | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

Observers, watching blushing Democrats toss this hot and unsavory mess back & forth, decided that the Party had spilled the biggest mess of the campaign and then stepped in it themselves. Charging the Democrats with running a campaign of innuendo, the Baltimore Sun declared: "This sort of thing cannot go much further before even the heavy thinkers responsible for it will begin to see that it is a boomerang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smear | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...annual dinner will be held tomorrow night in the club house at 7:30 o'clock, and a program of five speakers has been arranged. Bill Bingham and Dick Harlow will represent Harvard, while "Hurry-Up" Yost and Fritz Crisler will speak for Michigan. The fifth man to toss his hat in the ring will be none other than Bill Cunningham, well-known Boston sports columnist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOST SPEAKS AT DINNER | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

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