Word: touchback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurlbut has protested a safety scored by Grays Hall in Thursday's game. Hurlbut claims that an intercepted pass in the end zone should be ruled a touchback and not a safety. The game is formally under protest. Grays...
...consequences, however, were not quite so serious as they were in 1928 when Riegels, center and captain of the University of California's Rose Bowl team, ran from Georiga Tech territory over the Rose Bowl turf to his own one-yard line, setting up a Tech touchback several seconds later...
...This touchback gave Tech an 8-7 victory, while the faux pas committed by the Crimson runners merely lessened the cross-country team's margin of victory to 14 and 50 points over Columbia and Penn respectively. The varsity...
...third period kick was fumbled by Dartmouth's Roger Warner deep in the end zone and then rolled out for an automatic touchback...
...score once, on a Clasby to Ederer pass, but it was ruled that Ederer had stepped out of the end zone. The Crimson lost another touchdown when Culver fumbled on the one-yard line late in the fourth quarter and the ball was recovered by Colgate for an automatic touchback...