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...game ended with the ball on the Leverett two-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House, Freshman Football Championships, Yale Trips At Stake in This Week's Play | 11/17/1953 | See Source »

...backstretch Kazantsev strained into a two-yard lead. Then, at the last water jump, the Russian stumbled and nearly took a header. Showing the new form he had picked up from watching the Europeans practice, Ashenfelter took off from the barrier in one smooth glide, splashed on one foot near the water's edge, swung up on the turf, then back on the track. Sailing over the final hurdle, he sprinted the last 30 yards, finished 6.2 sec. ahead of tottering Vladimir. His time: 8 min. 45.4 sec., the fastest steeplechase ever run on either side of the Iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The G-Man and the Russian | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...game that do not show up in record books or statistics. In 1922, when Chicago was playing Princeton's "Team of Destiny" (Fullback Charley Caldwell, now Princeton's coach; Quarterback John Gorman; End Howard ["Howdy"] Gray), the Chicago offense was stopped cold on the Tiger two-yard line. After Chicago tried unsuccessfully to batter its way through center, Stagg's assistant, "Fritz" Crisler (later a Princeton coach, 1932-37), suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Coach | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Massachusetts almost tied up the game moments later when a 40-yard pass, from Roy Morton to Dick Alemain, put the ball on the Straus North two-yard line. A try at the line by Alemain moved the ball to the one foot line, but then a 16-yard penalty killed the threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straus North Beats Mass, 6-0, for Yard Touch Title | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

...clever optional pitchout. Leone would circle end, waiting to see if the defensive end moved up to meet him. If so, he would flip to the trailing halfback. If the end hung back, Leone would keep the ball and run. This continued until Leone sneaked over from the two-yard line, but Brown was still not in the ball game although it trailed by only seven points...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Inspired Eleven Rips Brown, 34-21 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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