Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games that sent the season into full swing last week, the most spectacular single play was a 90-yd. runback of North Carolina's first kick-off by Krouse of Tennessee. A point behind at halftime, Tennessee managed to pound out a touchdown in each of the last two periods...
...halfbacks wore handlebar mustaches and laced their canvas jackets up the front, football rivalry between Yale and Columbia was a fixture of the sport. They played 17 games. Yale won all but the fourth game in 1875, and the one in 1899, when famed Halfback Harold Weekes ran 70 yd. for a touch down that counted five points and won the game...
...Champions was a trying test for Yale's new coach, "Ducky" Pond. Instead of Harold Weekes, Columbia's backfield threat was a swarthy fat-jowled Austrian, Al Barabas. The thing about last week's game which reminded oldsters of Harold Weekes was Barabas' run in the first period?70 yd. to a touch down that counted six points.* Playing hard, evenly matched football on a slippery field, both teams scored in the second half, but Barabas' six points were as good as Weekes's five. Columbia 12, Yale...
...year are based on the premise that crowds want to watch an open game. Forward passing is favored with a ball an inch thinner than last year. The first incomplete forward pass across the goal line (except on fourth down) no longer causes loss of the ball. The 5-yd. set-back for two incomplete passes in one series of downs has been removed. Because coaches last year decided that the defense had too many advantages, another rule, designed to popularize quick kicks, permits a punter to have a teammate hold the ball in position for a kick...
...score when the seventh chukker started was West 8, East 4. East got the ball at the throwin. Tall Winston Guest sent a long pass to Mills for a goal. A moment later he made the longest hit of the game (100 yd.) to Phipps, who scored with a backhand. Post a minute later scored on a free shot after a foul. Guest got the ball at the next throwin, took it down the field, tied the score at 8-all. Before the West could recover from its surprise, Phipps had scored two more goals and the period was over...