Word: touchback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon picking himself off the ground . . . Austie Harding's choice of plays was uncanny during the second half; he proved himself a great team spark . . . Hardest tackle seen on Soldiers Field this year was by backer-up Cliff Wilson and Joe Gardella on Mountain; the latter fumbled, causing a touchback, and he was never himself thereafter . . . Tom Healey continued his steady improvement and now ranks with Booth to give Harvard as outstanding a tackle pair as exists in the East...
...which way the ball would bounce. To his surprise it bounded from the turf to his hip, his helmet, then rolled into the end zone. While he was deciding what to do next, St. Mary's Meister fell on the ball, thus converting what might have been a touchback into a touchdown...
...adopt a "windy day" rule permitting a team within its own 20-yd. line to surrender the ball 25 yd. down the field, rather than kick against the wind; 7) let an incomplete forward pass over the goal line count only as a lost down instead of a touchback (except on fourth down...