Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball himself for only 38 yds., but before the second team took over, his deft ball-handling had engineered four of the six Gopher touchdowns...
Alternating four powerful teams, any one of which seemed capable of handling Pitt, Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly...
Though All-Star Fullback Paige Cothren of Mississippi (Los Angeles Rams) produced two surprisingly professional field goals of 12 and 25 yds., the boys' passing attack never again threatened the men's defense. While the Giants' backfield deployed far to the rear to bat down long passes, beefy Giant linesmen crashed through to rush Quarterbacks Brodie and Paul Hornung. In marked difference between pro experience and college eagerness, the college quarterbacks tried to run and were smeared, while the Giants' Charley Conerly refused to budge when rushed, coolly ate the ball and waited for the next...
Last season's amateurs were brilliant in the first quarter. Stanford's Quarterback John Brodie, already signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances...
Next morning the climbers came face to face with a rock cliff that slanted 50 yds. straight out at a 110° angle. "Absolutely unclimbable," said Bonatti. But there was no going back. Leaning out into 2,000 ft. of air ("the worst fear I ever had to overcome"), Bonatti finally found a tiny fissure in the rock. He pounded in steel pitons, and from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more...