Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop then went down to Kirkland's 15-yard line, which was the nearest either team came to scoring. The Puritan backfield at this point began knocking each other down on attempted spinner plays, thus stalling the attack...
...second period was not so hot, to put it mildly. The Harlowmen gained only 36 yards from scrimmage, four passes failed, a quick kick was nothing extra, and Princeton scored after a Foley fumble on the Harvard 31-yard line...
...fourth score was set up when Win Jameson, who turned in a great two and half periods at right end after Don Daughters had received a concussion, and Ken Booth, defensive bulwark at tackle, smeared Tiger passer Dave Allerdice on his own five-yard line. Booth picked the bounding ball out of Allerdice's failing arms but was downed immediately. On one play Macdonald went half way to score and on the next he went the rest of the way. A holding penalty foiled the attempted conversion...
...Crimson still wanted one more score. With Foley, Boston, Gardella, Fearon, Coleman, and Lowry relieving the regulars, the boys almost got the count over 30. But after a 20-yard get-a-way by sophomore Joe, the umpire pillaged the pellet, and the victory march of the fans commenced...
...staged between 67-year-old Pop Warner's Temple boys and 59-year-old Gil Dobie's Boston College boys. Trailing 19-to-26 with less than three minutes to play, Temple zoomed from one end zone to the other in just three plays (a 50-yard runback of a kickoff, an incompleted pass, and then a completed pass), booted the extra point, tied unbeaten Boston College 26-10-26. Each team scored four touchdowns, succeeded in two of its tries for the extra point, kicked wide once, and had one try blocked...