Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whenever Sam Baugh has the ball, are disconcerted to find that Sam Baugh is as capable a runner and kicker as he is a passer. In the six games so far this season 53 of Sam Baugh's 109 passes have been completed-for a gain of 707 yd. His running record is almost as impressive. Versatile Sam Baugh is the main reason why the Redskins are now only half a game behind the powerful Giants, why in mid-December they may possibly meet the champions of the Western Division-likely to be the Chicago Bears or the Green...
...because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed not for the railroad station but for the power station, 300 yd. away from the Yangtze Hotel...
...minutes after Duke's first demonstration of power, Georgia Tech took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece...
...young man arraigned before him for speeding, twinkled, ruled: "I'm fining you $10-or two touchdowns against Redlands." Next night Halfback Howard Yeager of Santa Barbara State College worked off his fine by plunging 12 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, pulling down a 21-yd. pass behind the goal line for another in the second quarter. Final score: Santa Barbara 31, Redlands...
...almost singlehanded last year, missed a try for extra point after Minnesota scored a first-quarter touchdown. Minnesota made just two more fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed it. Two quick passes were enough for Nebraska's-second touchdown and opening-game victory...