Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill beat Hotchkiss 12 to 0. Only a few Hill boys were allowed to go to the game, at Lakeville. Conn.; 200 or so Hill alumni remembered the cheers well enough to yelp for Hill's Fullback Dick Hebard. who made both touchdowns, the second with a 66-yd. run. His punts averaged 43 yd. and with one exception went out of bounds inside the Hotchkiss loyd. line. Eighteen-year-old son of Roy W. Hebard. New York engineer, Hebard is the only athlete in history of his school to win four major letters; he is on the baseball...
...periods, both teams were too cautious. In the third period. Princeton twice had first down inside the Yale loyd. line. Both times the Yale line held. A long pass, Lassiter to O'Connell, brought Yale back to midfield; four more plays brought the ball to the Princeton 8-yd. line and on the second play of the last quarter Lassiter smashed across for Yale's touchdown. Curtin kicked the extra point...
...throw the kind of desperate passes that quarterbacks always try at the end of close games; McPartland caught one on Yale's loyd. line but he started to run the wrong way and a moment later Yale had taken the ball on downs again, on its own 3-yd. line. It was almost incredible that when McPartland caught another pass from Kadlic a moment later he should again run toward his own goal. Nonetheless, McPartland did it, for a few steps, till he was tackled on Yale's 20-yd. line. This time, his mistake was not important: the next...
Notre Dame thrashed Northwestern 21 to 0. On the first kickoff, George Melinkovich made the longest run of the week, 98 yd. for a touchdown. Added misfortune for Northwestern was what happened to its amiable, hard-plunging halfback. Ernest ("Pug") Rentner; he broke a rib in the first quarter, found out about it at the half. McGuire of Wisconsin caught the kick-off and scuttled 85 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota tied the score. Wisconsin got -another touchdown. Minnesota matched...
Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly...