Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Ellsworth, Me. was a big black bear which he had raised from cubhood eleven years ago, taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed...
...Philadelphia, trying to stretch the second-best current winning streak in the U. S. to 13 games in a row, Princeton got past Pennsylvania's 10-yd. line five times, past its goal-line never. Penn's touchdown, on Quarterback Lew Elverson's 57-yd. run before the game was ten minutes old, made the score the same as that of Princeton's last defeat-by Yale...
Advancing a fumbled ball by kicking it counts only when accidental. Defined as accidental was the kick that Yale's Captain Larry Kelley gave a fumbled punt which put Yale on Navy's 3-yd. line, in position...
Pitt, pointing for the Rose Bowl, was upset 7-to-0 when little Duquesne's substitute halfback, George Matsik, got loose around right end, ran 72 yd. for a touchdown...
...captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together with phenomenal success at a Minneapolis high school, are now called the "touchdown twins." One is 158-Ib. Rudy Gmitro, who averaged a gain of 15 yd. per play in eight plays last year. The other is Uram, who has been preparing to play on the Minnesota varsity since he was 10. For Uram, last-minute touchdowns, far from miraculous, appear to be habitual. Three weeks ago, in Minnesota's opening game against the University of Washington...