Word: wood
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...freshman year, Wood--who was elected president of that class too-kicked the extra point which assured an undefeated season and beat Booth and Yale, 7-6. In the junior year, Wood threw two touchdown passes--30 and 25 yards to Art Hugeley--and chipped in some bruising defense as Harvard won again 13-0. Booth was understandably chagrined...
Actually, the junior year, 1930, was Wood's least successful from a team standpoint (the team finished 4-4-1). Despite the quarterback's continuing heroics, Harvard lost by a touchdown to Army, by three points to Michigan and by five to Dartmouth. But 1931 was different...
...With Wood earning All-America honors, Harvard steamrollered its first seven opponents by a composite score of 149-26. Only the Yale game stood between Wood and an eastern championship. Only Yale and Albie Booth. For the Cambridge flash the script was wrong. Harvard got only one scoring opportunity, blew it and then had to watch in anguish as Booth clicked on a late field goal to snap Wood's string...
...Perhaps Wood's greatest game came against Army in that 1931 season. Trailing by two touchdowns, he rallied Harvard to a 13-13 tie, and then performed a predictable feat of heroism. The pass from center for the extra point was low so he scooped up the ball and danced untouched into the endzone for the winning point. Then, as the clock ticked away the final seconds, Army's fleet half-back Paul Johnson broke loose toward the Harvard goal. "He had at least a ten-yard start on Barry, with no one between him and the goal line...
...Barry Wood could do no wrong. In late 1931, one of America's foremost sports broadcasters covered Wood and company against Dartmouth. Disappointed with Wood's performance, Ted Husing called the hero's play "putrid." Immediately thereupon, the director of athletics wrote a blistering letter to William Paley, the president of CBS, saying that Husing would never again be allowed to broadcast from Soldiers Field...