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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard's 17-yard line when Albie Booth, still limping slightly from a muscle bruise, ran out from the bench. The wild crowd quieted ?would he run or kick? When Douglas blocked a low wavering boot that got nowhere, Mays' and Devens' juggernaut spurts made a Harvard touchdown possible. Then Douglas blocked another of Booth's kicks and Barry Wood slanted over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods, Ill., Harvard end, complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Devens-to-Mays lateral which led to Harvard's touchdown was the play which pleased me most."--A. K. Marsters, injured Dartmouth quarterback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER CRITCS UNITE IN PRAISING FIGHTING SPIRT SHOWN BY HARVARD MEN | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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