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Word: yd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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