Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaten three times in a row by any team except Harvard, Yale came out of its Bowl at New Haven beaten for the third time, by a onesided score? 26 to 7. Midget Albie Booth helped make one touchdown in the third quarter, nearly scored another with a 74-yd. run just before the first half ended. But before Midget Booth came on the field, Georgia's huge guard, Red Leathers, had snatched a pass from Taylor, carried it 40 yd. for the first touchdown; and just afterward Georgia's sophomore halfback. Homer Key (distant kin to Mayor James...
Washington was struggling for the touchdown that might have tied the score against Oregon when Oregon's substitute end, Bill Bowerman, intercepted a Washington pass, scampered 87 yd. for the touchdown that made the score Oregon 13, Washington...
...Notre Dame's famed coach who was killed in an airplane accident in Kansas last March, watched Notre Dame, undefeated since 1928, open the season against Indiana University. Rockne's successor, Heartley ("Hunk") Anderson, used three teams, uncovered a new right-halfback, Joe Sheeketski who ran 70 yd. for the first of the four touchdowns that won for Notre Dame...
...clubs so she could play with him. In 1927, when she was 16, she played in her first major tournaments. The next year she won a match against Marion Hollins, who was national champion in 1921; won a driving contest with six tee shots between 220 and 240 yd. The year after that she played National Champion Glenna Collett for the first time, in the semi-finals of the Florida East Coast Championship, won her match, 2 & 1. Since then it has been clear that Billie Hicks would one day be Women's Golf Champion...
Most important and final matches-the national individual rifle match and the national rifle team match-were run off under bright sunlight. These matches are shot under like regulations with the standard U. S. Military Springfield 30 calibre: 50 rounds rapid and slow-fire at 200 yd., rapid-fire at 300 yd., slow-fire at 600 yd., 100 rounds slow-fire at 1,000 yd. Squinting in the glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass. When the last shot cracked out, split the target...