Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manager Sherrill's four and a half year administration appropriately climax the tale of how a group of decent energetic citizens rescued their town. The city paid 22% less for its street building materials in 1926 than it had in 1925. Dirt which had cost $1.35 a yd. in 1925, cost 35? a yd, a year later. In 1926 Cincinnati paid $36,000 less for street maintenance than it had the year before "when it rode on holes." "Where," asks Author Taft, "had the money gone?" Whereas in 1925 a citizen with a 50 ft. frontage was assessed...
...that their parents would probably be less irate if they won. However the Japanese, including two former college linemen named Ping Oda and Ichiyafu, outplayed them for three periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against them, the Chinese tried for extra point by a forward pass, Gunn to Got. Bill Got gathered in the ball on the goalline, was tackled and thrown back...
...move the goal posts back to the goal line; 3) abolish the rule which makes the ball dead if any part of the ball-carrier's body other than hands or feet touches the ground; 4) when a ball goes out of bounds, bring it in 15 yd. from the sidelines, instead of 10 yd.; 5) restore the old rule whereby either side may run with a recovered fumble; 6) adopt a "windy day" rule permitting a team within its own 20-yd. line to surrender the ball 25 yd. down the field, rather than kick against the wind...
...forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants' crack Quarterback Harry Newman (Michigan's All-American of last year) alone threw 17, completed 12. Fullback Jack Manders of the Bears kicked three out of four field goals, one from the 42-yd. line. The lead changed six times, stood 21-to-16 in favor of the Giants in the last minutes of play when the Bears' Fullback Bronko Nagurski duplicated his earlier pass that brought about his team's first touchdown. Almost tackled as he butted into the line...
...train, a freight, stopped 200 yd. beyond the crossing. Two bodies were on the cowcatcher. The rest were strewn along the tracks behind. Three of Widow Smith's children and three others were killed instantly. The fourth Smith child and three others died on the way to a hospital. All the rest were badly hurt...