Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game had hardly started when "Beany" Johnson, Army quarterback, caught a punt on his 18-yd. line and, with perfect interference, dashed along an 82-yd. highway to Navy's goal. The try for point failed. Before the period was over, Navy Halfbacks "Red" Baumberger and "Buzz" Berries started at midfield, had the ball over the line in three swift plays. Then, in his single play of the game, Dick Bull ran in and kicked the extra point...
Early in the second period, Army started on its own 30-yd. line, bucked, passed, sliced 70 yd. to another touchdown. Again Army missed the extra point, and again Navy had a chance to win. It came within 13 yd. of doing so in the next period, but a fourth down pass failed and the score remained 12-to-7. Army continued unbeaten, untied, with only Notre Dame to play...
With the score tied, 6-to-6 in the third quarter. Brown's Center Payne sent a pass that went over the heads of the backfield, rolled to his 11-yd. line where a Brown man accidentally kicked it. Awarded possession of the ball, Harvard promptly punched over the winning touchdown...
...game but even to score a point for more than a month, 20 members of the squad carried rabbits' feet to last week's encounter with Northwestern. Luck had nothing to do with the result, 7-to-0. Notre Dame battled fiercely for its victory, gained 256 yd. to Northwestern's 46, 13 first downs to Northwestern...
Chicago, supposed to be the weakest team in the Western Conference, made Illinois work for its touchdown in the second period, work even harder to stop a Chicago drive on their 1-yd. line a minute before the game ended, 7-to-0. The victory left Illinois, like Ohio State, which it plays this week, a chance for the Big Ten championship-in case Northwestern beats Michigan and Wisconsin beats Minnesota this week...