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Word: touchdowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football field "Passin' Paul" is as nonchalant as a co-ed over a cocktail. When he darts to the right, then spins around and throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we thought up . . . no deception intended." Once when an opposing tackier bounced him for the 19th time, Christman gazed up at him from the ground, said: "My boy, why don't you rest on your laurels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Prexies rallies quickly, however, and came back will two scores before the half was over. Dunklee cracked the Winthrop line for one touchdown and Emery shot a flat pass to Cooke for another, while Emery kicked the point on the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE COLLEGE WINNER BEATS WINTHROP 19-7 | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

Russell, Brew, and Bill Couch were the sparkplugs of the winning eleven while Bill Tyng paced the Leverett squad. Vint Freedley scored the Bunny touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT DOWNS BUNNIES 7-6, FOR FIRST VICTORY | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

...backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered, scored a touchdown. A few moments later, when Notre Dame fumbled, the Cadets got the ball but failed to follow through. That difference was enough to win the game, but just for good measure, in the final quarter Notre Dame intercepted an Army pass for another touchdown, beat the Cadets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big One | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Champaign, Ill., on the same field where famed Red Grange scored five touchdowns against Michigan 15 years ago, an Illinois team, smarting under Michigan's Coach Crisler's recent boast that Tom Harmon is a greater back than Grange, made Crisler eat crow. Playing inspired football, Bob Zuppke's Illini, who had not won a game this season, bottled Harmon so tightly that he scored only one touchdown, toppled mighty Michigan from the undefeated ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big One | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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