Word: touchback
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...Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...
...Crimson got the first real break of the game early in the first quarter when tackle John Nichols recovered a Holy Cross fumble on the Harvard 20-yard line. Carroll Lowenstein then tried a long pass into the end zone which was intercepted for a touchback...
...than in the final seconds of the game, when Vince Moravec intercepted a Princeton pass in the Harvard end zone. The Crimson stands were hushed in sorrow, thinking the Tigers had scored a safety, and even some of the players were mystified when referee Albie Booth ruled it a touchback and awarded the Varsity a first down on its 20-yard line...
...other rule changes this season: 1) an incomplete fourth-down pass into the end zone is no longer declared a touchback (ball will go to the opposition at point of last scrimmage instead of the 20-yd. line); 2) a kicked ball, touched first by the kicking team within the opposition's loyd. line, is now a touchback...
...afternoon picking himself off the ground . . . Austie Harding's choice of plays was uncanny during the second half; he proved himself a great team spark . . . Hardest tackle seen on Soldiers Field this year was by backer-up Cliff Wilson and Joe Gardella on Mountain; the latter fumbled, causing a touchback, and he was never himself thereafter . . . Tom Healey continued his steady improvement and now ranks with Booth to give Harvard as outstanding a tackle pair as exists in the East...