Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the second quarter. Halfback Frank Gifford took a pitchout from Quarterback Don Heinrich, sailed off around left end, stopped short and pitched a touchdown pass to End Kyle Rote. A few minutes later, Gifford faked the Eagle defense men out of their shoes and skipped across the goal line. That was all New York really needed, but the Giants scored again, ran out the game 21-7, and earned a crack at the Chicago Bears for the N.F.L. championship...
...might have been closer to 62 than 42. For Olivar's graduating seniors, led by Dean Loucks, Dennis McGill, A1 Ward, and Steve Ackerman wanted as many points as they could get. In addition, junior quarterback Dick Winterbauer dismissed any hasty Crimson optimism about next year by tossing a touchdown pass...
This same blocking superiority was evident on the open field--best demonstrated by Ward's 79-yard second period kick-off return for a touchdown. He picked up the ball near the Yale sidelines, and got blocking...
...combination of Yale speed and blocking ability was used in the second period for another touchdown when, with a second down and nine yards to go situation on his own 22, quarterback Winterbauer, on the option play, pitched out to McGill. The blocking in the line took out the backer-up and the end, and McGill was sprung loose...
There were two points in the game when Harvard "had a chance." These were in the second period, after a 39-yard touchdown run by Joslin on an off-tackle smash had made the score 14 to 7 in Yale's favor, and in the third period, when Simourian's off-tackle carry made the score 28 to 14. But both times, the Blue came back quickly. The first time, Ward made his kick-off return, and the second time, Winterbauer tossed a touchdown pass, and then set up the final score a little later in the fourth period...