Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victories over respectable opponents were staggering. The team had tallied a total of 236 points to its opponents' 38. It had made 122 first downs to its opponents' 37. A "power team" of the first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes the astounding total of 2,418 yd., while holding its opponents to a paltry 533. But not even that yardage figure gave a full-sized picture of Coach Bernie Bierman's jerseyed juggernaut. To prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during...
...Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games of the season he accounted for 532 yd. or more than a quarter of Minnesota's total ground gained by rushing. Minnesota's greatest ground-gainer, he can run 100 yd. in 12 sec. in uniform...
...Coach Herbert Crisler before the Yale game. "I think the Princeton team was a little stage struck in the first quarter," he said afterward. In the first quarter Yale lined up in kick formation, pulled a pass instead from Roscoe to Kelley, who caught Princeton napping, ran 29 yd. down to the corner of the field and over the goalline. Undefeated in 15 straight games. Princeton was expected to overcome Yale's lead in short order. But the Tigers never seemed to be able to do the right thing at the right time, fumbled all over the field, were...
...three-point lead from Cutter's place-kick in the second quarter. In the last two minutes of the game, both teams scored-first Navy on a forward pass, then Notre Dame two plays later when Pilney ran the kick-off back to Navy's 23-yd. line. Navy 10, Notre Dame...
...Minnesota allowed his team to give up the stratagem of kicking on second down through the first half, making no effort to score until the second. Result: a crushing victory over Indiana, 30-to-0, in which Minnesota scored twice in the first quarter, outrushed its opponents 290 yd...