Word: kickoff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Michigan won the toss. Tom Harmon caught the kickoff, ran the ball back to Michigan's 30-yard line. In three plays, he and Bob Westfall made first down. Westfall drove through left tackle for 20 yards to put the ball on Illinois's 34. Two more first downs and the ball was on Illinois's 12. Then, while Coach Zuppke's boys scrambled to cover Harmon, Little Dave Nelson scooted around right end on a double reverse, ran twelve yards for a touchdown...
Illinois took Harmon's kickoff but punted after two plays. From Michigan's 32, Harmon and Nelson advanced the ball to Illinois's 23. Then Harmon, on a lateral from Nelson, slithered around left end for 20 yards. On third down, Harmon cut back through right tackle for Michigan's second touchdown. The game was less than ten minutes...
...formidable straight arm, powerful leg drive that shakes off tacklers like tenpins, a confounding change of pace and rumba hips, make a Harmon touchdown run a memorable performance. In addition to his ball-carrying talents, he is a better-than-average blocker, passer, punter, placekicker, quick-kicker and kickoff...
...Puritans capitalized on a golden opportunity soon after the kickoff to produce their first touchdown. Lowell lumbied a punt on the one-yard line, Winthrop recovered, and on the next play Jimmy Lynch scored on a reverse. Dick Loomis stopped the Bellboy drive in the second period and completed one at his own 25, wound through the opposition and raced 75 yards to the goal line...
Last weekend, War, Willkie and the World Series notwithstanding, many a U. S. citizen turned his attention to the kickoff of the 1940 college-football season. Some of the opening skirmishes...