Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the score 7-to-7 and four minutes to play, Bill Corbus, Stanford's All-American guard, booted a place kick from the 23-yd. line over Southern California's goal posts. Thus fell, with a resounding crash, the fattest Humpty Dumpty of 1933 football and the first big one to fall. To make sure the pieces would not be put together again that day, Corbus kicked again, scored again...
...started in characteristic style with a touchdown in the first period by towheaded Irvine ("Scooter") Warburton, its nimble, 145-lb. quarterback, who wriggled free on Stanford's 43-yd. line. In the next period Stanford's speedy Fullback Bobby Grayson slashed and passed through the Trojan line, punched over a touchdown. Southern California's line stiffened and it looked like a tie game when Bill Corbus went to work...
Fordham, which had yielded no game and only one touchdown this season, fought furiously against St. Mary's, but fury was not enough. Toward the end of the first period St. Mary's whirlwind Wilson, helped by George Canrinus, rammed the ball 65 yd. down the field to Fordham's 2-yd. line where the gun stopped it. On the first play of the second period Wilson broke off tackle for a touchdown. Fordham stiffened and in the second half passed and charged to St. Mary's 9-yd. line for a first down...
...offensive game was helped materially this season by the new rule providing that if a ball goes out of bounds, or is downed within 10 yd. of the sidelines, it shall be brought 10 yd. in for the next play. That eliminated the wasted play formerly made to work the ball back into free position. About one-fifth of the plays in a game were wasted in that manner. As the season progressed new demands arose from coaches to eliminate fussy rules which not only hobbled the game but produced aggravating hairline decisions by well meaning but muddled officials...
...tolerated, is in professional football, which is one reason (but not the prime one) why it is vastly more entertaining than the collegiate game. In the National Professional League the ball is not down until the carrier has been stopped dead by an opponent. Goalposts are not 10 yd. behind the goalline, as in college football, but this year were placed on the line where kickers may reach them with field goals. Many of the college football rules were intended to prevent injuries, but professional players, with longer experience, are hurt less frequently...