Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of untimely 15-yard penalties and a fumbled fumble cost the Crimson football team its chance for a brilliant second-half comeback Saturday. Brown finally nosed out the varsity...
Down 23 to 6 and apparently out at halftime, the Crimson charged back into an attack that had the Bruins reeling helpless before it. Two plays after the kickoff, fullback Sam Halaby raced the ball 84 yards into the Brown end zone, and at the end of the third quarter Charlie Ravenel scored after a 54-yard drive...
With the stage set for a deciding Crimson touchdown, Brown kindly obliged by twice giving up the ball in its own territory--once on a pass interception, once on a fumble. But the varsity returned the favor both times by incurring 15-yard holding penalties on its first play from scrimmage, killing both opportunities...
...strangest phenomena in an otherwise unusual season is that the strongest team on paper appears to be fifth-place Brown. The Bruins are right behind Dartmouth and Harvard in total defense and trail first-place Cornell by three-tenths of a yard per game in total offense...
...Goldberg took the idea of students helping out in high schools and presented it to several possible supporters, but received no real encouragement until he went to Deans Herzog and Keppel of the Graduate School of Education. Herzog pointed out that they could give some definite support whereas the Yard had "sympathy but ..." about the idea. The Deans served as a liason between Goldberg and schools that might be interested and also gave official sanction to the group...