Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nebraska, fresh from victories over Iowa State and Chicago, last week played Minnesota, undefeated since 1932, in what experts expected might be a game to determine the Midwest's candidate for best team in the U. S. Minnesota got a touchdown after a 74-yd. run on the first kickoff, bottled up Nebraska's Lloyd Cardwell for three periods, staved off two last-quarter charges inside the 10-yard line, caused Coach Bible excessive pain by winning...
...Penn's game until the middle of the last quarter when a sophomore back named Jack White, star of last year's freshman team, trotted into the Princeton backfield. He spurred it down the field in a yo-yd. march, carried the ball across the goal line, held it while Sandbach kicked the extra point that won, 7-to-6. Other major games...
Dormie Little Sirs: Your account of the final match of the American Amateur in TIME, Sept. 23, p.50, contains the following: "At the 10th, with Emery dormie. Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands." Rules of Golf of U. S. G. A. for 1935 under "Definitions" (21) reads as follows: "A side is said to be 'dormie' when it is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played." Little was dormie, not Emery...
Instead, on the 14th, Emery misplayed a recovery from sand and took 4 to Little's 3. On the 15th, Little had a birdie 3 to Emery's 5. At the 16th, with Emery dormie, Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands...
...Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets out of the first 100 to tie Sam G. Vance of Tillsonburg, Ont. The rest of the field and 1,000 or so spectators gathered behind the backs of the two men to watch the shoot-off. After the first 25 targets, they were still tied...