Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena occurred the most famous blunder of modern football. Roy Riegels, California centre, picked up a Georgia Tech fumble, ran it 73 yd. the wrong way. Two yards from his own goal-line a teammate stopped him. but two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked him across the line. The referee gave the ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay...
Along the Mississippi near Vicksburg the War Department has contracted with 19 different companies to move 30,000,000 cu. yd. of earth for new levees at a cost of $6,000,000. On this unskilled, backbreaking work some 4,500 men, black and white, have been employed. They live mostly in contractors' camps, often deal with company commissaries...
...playing; instead, it made him better than ever. After a season on the sidelines, he has learned how to plunge straight through a line instead of shifting through a broken field, how to shake off tacklers instead of dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time out-on a rainy day, when his trousers fell off as well as his headguard. Left end Merlon Derry-berry of Columbus, Tenn. has the highest scholastic average...
...last week's game, the team coached by N. Y. U.'s Chick Meehan was a little too well-prepared. Expecting long forward passes, they were surprised in the second period when a Tennessee halfback named Beatty Feathers ran 65 yd. for a touchdown. Expecting Gene McEver's line drives, they were surprised a minute or two later when an alternate halfback, Herbert Brackett, behind brilliant blocking, ran 75 yd. for another touchdown. Except for Gene McEver's extra point-by a line plunge-after the first touchdown, there was no other scoring. The Tennessee defense...
Ernest Caddell ran 72 yd. on Stanford's first play, 64 yd. later in the same period and caught a pass in the last quarter for three of the five touchdowns that won against Dartmouth, at Cambridge...