Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With five minutes left to play and the score 6-to-6, the biggest crowd of the year (80,000) saw Notre Dame's Andy Pilney drop back for a pass from his own 38-yd. line. The ball sailed across the line of scrimmage in a high arc, landed in the arms of Notre Dame's Dan Hanley who was dragged down by two tacklers on Army's 25-yd. line. Two line plays followed and then Pilney dropped back to pass again. This time, Hanley caught the ball just beyond the line of scrimmage...
Embellished by such antics, the 53rd Yale-Harvard game went off as expected. Two touchdowns by Yale in the first half spoiled Harvard's chance of winning, but made all the more dramatic two long Harvard marches which stopped inside Yale's 5-yd. line. Yale 14, Harvard...
Favored at 4-to-1 to win the Pacific Coast's big game, Stanford was held scoreless through the first half, got its chance in the third quarter when End Keith Topping fell on the ball after a blocked punt at California's 24-yd. line. Stanford's Captain Robert Hamilton took the ball across. A field goal from the 15-yd. line early in the last quarter gave Stanford the points it needed to squeak through 9-to-7, when California staged a last-minute drive to a touchdown...
...stands as guest of honor was Patrick John O'Dea, Wisconsin captain in 1898 and 1899, often considered the greatest kicker the game ever developed. Most prodigious feat: in the 1898 game against Northwestern, played in a raging blizzard, he sent a drop-kick between goalposts 62 yd. away. Originally an Australian rugby player, O'Dea disappeared in 1919, was supposed to have joined Australian troops, been killed in action in France. Two months ago in California he revealed his identity to newshawks, explained his assumption of another name by the fact that he wanted to get away...
...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...