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Word: yd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scare that they'll take Notre Dame seriously a week later." At Ann Arbor, the No. 1 football team of the country last week fulfilled its coach's hopes. In the second period, Fullback Steve Toth place-kicked a field goal from Michigan's 17-yd. line. After that an inspired Michigan team that had lost all but one of its previous games this season and shown nothing much in any of them, played beyond itself until three minutes before the game ended. Then a fumble recovered by Northwestern's Zitko and a 30-yd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...between high school and college, spent three years earning enough money for his tuition and gaining enough weight to be sure of making the varsity football team the first year he tried for it. Last week Heap's chief contributions to the victory over Michigan were a 37-yd. run and a pass to Quarterback Fred Vanzo that indirectly led to Toth's field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many as they gained against Minnesota three weeks ago. Masterpiece of the blocks' blocking came in the third quarter, when Halfback Al Gurske was reeling off an 80-yd. run for Fordham's second touchdown. Fordham's first touchdown, by Fullback Joe Dulkie, and a field goal by Quarterback "Handy Andy" Palau, came after Left Guard Nat Pierce had recovered two Purdue fumbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...coached by Duke's Wallace Wade has ever beaten a team coached by Tennessee's Bob Neyland at Knoxville. Undefeated Duke last week kept its hopes of a national championship intact until two minutes before the game ended. Then Tennessee Halfback Thomas ("Red") Harp's 70-yd. runback of a Duke punt wrecked them, saved the Tennessee jinx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Ga. a golfer at the East Lake Country Club's eleventh tee drove a ball 150 yd. into Judge Jesse M. Wood's hip pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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