Word: kickoff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whistle blew. Two plays later, Chicago's Osmanski, swinging wide around his own left end, hurtled 68 yards to a touchdown, leaving a wake of Redskins biting the dust behind him. Okay, okay, thought Washington fans. Now watch our team come back. Come back they did - running the kickoff back to the Bears' 40-yd. line, pushing on to the 26. Then Sammy Baugh pitched a magnificent touchdown pass to his favorite receiver, Charlie Malone, who was standing all alone on the Bears' 2-yd. line. Malone muffed...
...balance of this contest, both teams having been defeated more than once along the rocky road they have traveled. There were the usual fireworks, but Yale never had more than a long-shot chance to win, It was Harvard's game almost as soon as the opening kickoff...
After a scoreless first half Groton defeated its traditional rival St. mark's 20 to 6 in a very soggy game. Hugh Knowlton sparked the Grofonians, scoring two touchdowns, one a seventy-yard kickoff return...
With time running out, second string Marcus Beebe started throwing passes all over the lot, connecting first to Walter Wilson for a 20-yard advance, and then passing 23 yards to John Teal for the score. The game ended on the ensuing kickoff...
...went to bat and fight fans expect Joe Louis to knock out every opponent in one minute flat, football fans want Harmon to run 95 yards at least once in every game. In Michigan's first game of the season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular, but ran up the score. Last week Bob Zuppke's boys, pledged to do or die for 34 the ghost of old Red Grange, ganged...