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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass and kick besides. Although he may not be a point-a-minute man he could almost qualify as a half-a-point-a-minute man. In the first three games of the season (in which he played a total of 124 minutes), he scored 52 points: seven touchdowns, seven points-after-touchdown and one field goal -the season's best record among U. S. college footballers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...three, running with the power of a wild buffalo and the cunning of a hounded fox, Harmon scored a touchdown. By half time he had scored another and his running mate, Paul Kromer, had crossed the goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When the final whistle blew, Harmon had scored 21 of Michigan's 27 points (he kicked three points-after-touchdown), had gained 203 of Michigan's total of 353 yards from scrimmage. At the end of the first half, Yale had made only one first down; just before the end of the third quarter, they crossed midfield for the first time; and, although they managed to sneak in an airway touchdown in the last few minutes of the game, their 27-to-7 drubbing was practically a knockout. All afternoon the husky Yales had gained only 35 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Scoring a touchdown on a punt return, Leverett football stalwarts won their first game in the inter-House league at the expense of Adams yesterday afternoon. An undefeated Winthrop team, at the same time, scored an easy victory over Eliot 13 to 0, with George Dreher leading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Winthrop Win | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Dunster walked over Leverett for the first period, climaxing a drive down the field with their only touchdown. George Vorn scored for the Funeters with a two yard line buck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Nip Bunnies While Commuters Defeat Bellboys | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

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