Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.P.s there would be 50 "pavement tickets" distributed by ballot, permitting a few lucky members to stand outside New Palace Yard, but John Donnelly, a sergeant major of the Royal Artillery, was assured of a seat in the Abbey to represent his regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, of which Elizabeth is colonel-in-chief...
...weighed only 135 Ibs. then. . . . I took the ball on my own 20, broke into the clear. The secondary had me trapped by the sidelines. . . . I spun away from one tackier . . . then another. . . ." The story grew each year; in the most recent version, dad ran from his own two-yard line, and was tackled on the enemy's one-yard line. Says Bob with a grin: "Dad has no clippings to prove...
...Crimson scored both tallies in the second period. Jim Lowell handed the ball off to Johnny White for the first score to cap a 38-yard drive, and a few minutes later White tossed a flat forward to Dick Tolf who went over to put the Yardlings in the lead...
Chip Gannon has just bolted 37 yards off right tackle to the enemy 15-yard line on the third play of the game. Four smashes have produced a first down on the six. The crowd of 18,000 is pleading for a touchdown. Now, after two line plunges have failed to gain, Leo Flynn is drifting back, trying to hit Kenny O'Donnell (42) for a score...
...third quarter, with the score at 0 to 0, halfback Al Malekof grabbed a Crimson serial on his own 13-yard line and boomeranged all the way to the Harvard 12. Midway through the fourth period, he did it again, this time returning from the midfield stripe to the 18. Rutgers had its 13 points...