Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score was Colgate 6, Brown 0 The ball was on the Colgate 1-yd. line. There was time for just one more play in the first half. Brown's 162-lb. Quarterback Robert Ramsay Chase took the ball. There was a squirming pile of players, a moment of silence while the referee examined the position of the ball. It was still two inches from the goal line...
...taking chances. The chances turned out well. Colgate's guard, Captain Bob Smith, blocked a Brown punt and Chase recovered it behind his own goal line for a safety that cost Brown two points. Colgate's Left Halfback Whitey Ask intercepted a Brown pass on his 20-yd. line and Colgate rattled off another touchdown, with spinners and reverses. Brown, trying for a touchdown at any cost, passed on fourth down instead of kicking and lost the ball on its 36-yd. line. A pass, Conroy to Bodganski, made Colgate's third touchdown, settled the championship...
...linemen are Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned to keep him under cover. Quarterback Charlie Soleau has huge thick legs which have this season enabled him to average an 11-yd. gain per play. Colgate statistics for the season: 99 first downs to opponents' 21; 1,581 yd. to 255; 45 completed passes to 13; 264 points...
...fourth down, 4 yd. to the Minnesota goal line, with 36 seconds of the first half to play. Harry Newman dropped back for a high place kick that missed hitting the goalpost by just enough to give Michigan the game which clinched the Big Ten Championship 3-to-0. Nebraska took the championship of the Big Six-Kansas. Oklahoma, Kansas State, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State- by nosing out Oklahoma, 5-to-0, on Masterson's field goal in the third quarter and a safety in the fourth, when Right End Cherry ran back to pick up a pass from...
...Green Bay Packers, National League (professional) champions, had not been beaten this year until Jack McBride of the New York Giants, onetime Syracuse University star, threw a 40-yd. forward pass...