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Word: yd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitement of the Army-Yale game came in two minutes at the beginning of the last quarter. Army finished a long march with a touchdown. Parker, who caught the kickoff, ran it back 88 yd. for a touchdown which tied the score. Then, on the next play, there occurred the accident which turned the game, for both teams and such of the 75,000 spectators as guessed what had happened, into an appalling tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 2, 1931 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 2, 1931 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...grizzled, 69-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was Yale All-American end in 1888 and whose son Paul was in the Chicago lineup. Yale's famed little Albie Booth played only two quarters but gave Midwestern Yale men their money's worth by gaining 37 yd. in scrimmage, running punts back 20 yd., intercepting two passes, dropkicking with precision. He let burly Tommy Taylor carry the ball on power plays but did most of Yale's passing with the clipped, short-arm motion and long follow-through taught Yale backs this year by Benny Friedman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Ohio State- Michigan game. Michigan was good enough to tie the score at one touchdown each in the second period. But after the half, Carroll and Cramer of Ohio State were good enough to score twice against Michigan. The ball was back on the Michigan 13-yd. line when the game ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...game for Harvard, 14 to 13, but not until, in the last period, Wood had made one other brilliant run-to catch Army's Halfback Paul Johnson who had the ball and a clear field when Wood tackled him from behind on Harvard's 25-yd. line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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