Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drives and irons as far as most middling-handicap men players. Last week the Women's Committee of the U. S. Golf Association made a new standard of what is par, basing their estimate on the way the competitors played at Los Angeles. Holes of more than 500 yd. used to be par six for women. Now they are par five. The new standard is: Up to 200 yd.-par 3. 201 to 375 yd.-par 4. 376 yd. and over-par 5. These are still below men's figures, but they are on an average 25 yd...
Using trick line plays that made the strategies of Coach Glenn Warner look hopeless, Coach Howard Jones's Southern California Trojans jammed one touchdown over in the first three minutes, scored others rapidly, made gains that totaled 481 yd. and a score that constituted the worst beating any college has ever given Stanford. Southern California 41, Stanford...
Schwartz's 60-yd. run on Notre Dame's first running play showed how things were going to be. Pittsburgh had not been scored on this year but Coach Knute Rockne was taking no chances, had started his regulars under brainy Quarterback Frank Carideo. Toward the end of the first half he took them out because Notre Dame needed to score no more. Pittsburgh did all their scoring against second and third stringers in the final quarter. Notre Dame 35, Pittsburgh...
Midget Albie Booth silenced critics who claimed Yale was saving him for the Army, Harvard and Princeton games. He eeled through for one touchdown and dropkicked a 25-yd. field goal while he and his friends were beating the Brown huskies who had beaten Princeton the week before. Yale 21, Brown...
Rumored to be terrible, Princeton showed more speed than anyone expected. In spite of a scoreless second half, they did not need Halfback James's 85-yd. run to beat Amherst...