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...mile relay Harvard was doomed by Lightbody's tiring 880. Running in the number three spot, he handed the baton and a one-yard lead to Anchorman Torby Macdonald, who was unable to withstand the speed of Cornell's Johnny Nevius and took second...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Big Red Cindermen Nose Out Crimson in Heptagonal | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...After a one-yard rush, Foley dropped back and passed to the end-zone to Macdonald, draped among two Elis. Enemy baseball captain Collins seemed to have the ball, as all went down, but somehow Macdonald had wrung it from him, and up went the referee's arms. The rain was coming down the hardest of all afternoon, but reliable Chief Boston went in and booted the extra point high and far. The game, to all intents and purposes, was over, although another succession of Anderson-Snavely passes provided one last flurry. The fray ended with Harvard freezing the ball...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Downs Stubborn Bulldog, 7-0 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...carried the ball from our own forty-yard line for a touchdown. After we had scored once, the game was ours despite the cries of "Now for dear old Yale." We scored again in the second half, and the game ended with the ball on Yale's one-yard line...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Princeton received the kickoff again, ran a couple against Booth and Allen, and decided to kick. Don Daughters blocked the punt, Bobby Green picked it up and raced to the one-yard line where Struck walked over for another tally. And all this in eight minutes of play...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Eleven Smashes Losing Streak, Downing Princeton 34-6 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Coming out for the last quarter 13 points behind, Notre Dame scored on Andy Pilney's runback of a kick, a pass to Gaul, a line plunge by Miller. After the kickoff, Notre Dame worked its way to the Ohio State one-yard line and fumbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football: Mid-season | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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