Word: touchdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bofenkamp, "Rooter king" at Minnesota. Like most of his confreres, Bofenkamp is small and wiry (tall cheerleaders went out of style when acrobatics came in), spends two afternoons a week rehearsing with his assistants, has a repertory of a dozen yells, a dozen stunts. Back flips and tumbling are touchdown stunts. Skits are put on between halves...
...fourth quarter the Redskins got going, scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Then, with only 45 seconds to play, the score 9-to-7 and the ball on the 16-yard line, Coach Ray Flaherty, realizing that a field goal was the Redskins' only hope, sent in Beau Russell to placekick. The ball sailed between the uprights-so most of the spectators thought. But Referee Bill Halloran thought otherwise, ruled the kick wide. To the tune of the worst booing ever heard in the historic old Polo Grounds, the Giants marched off with the Eastern championship...
...exciting a game as has been seen in its 57-year history, the underdog Bulldogs tore the Harvard team to tatters, kept them away from the Yale goal line until the very last minute, scampered away with a 20-to-7 victory. Even before the last-minute Harvard touchdown, jubilant Yalemen were on the field snatching the ball from the players, scuffling with cops, tearing down goal posts and bashing one another's noses...
...team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better...
Scoring once early in the game, the Elis made their second touchdown in the closing minutes of play when Smith intercepted a long pass thrown by Jitbug White and returned it for a touchdown...