Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season on Yale's freshman football team, its coach Mal Stevens predicted that he would eventually be the greatest pass-catcher in Yale history. By mid-season of his sophomore year, Kelley had fulfilled this prediction. He caught passes, mostly from Yale's Quarterback Jerry Roscoe, for touchdowns against Columbia, Brown, Harvard, Princeton. The last, on a one-hand catch, broke Princeton's 15-game winning streak (17-to-0), enabled Yale to score the biggest upset of 1934. In 1935, Roscoe & Kelley functioned together as smoothly as a baseball battery. Kelley's catches of Roscoe...
Sportswriters are accustomed to writing mysteriously about clever football players. Kelley's smartness is not mysterious at all. To effect his touchdown against Princeton last fortnight, instead of dodging Princeton's safety man, Jack White, Kelley bowled him over with a swinging straight-arm. Last week, Kelley explained this play. Knowing White was a faster runner than himself, Kelley had reasoned that, even if he dodged successfully, White would catch up with him. The only safe way was the way that looked most risky...
Kelley's touchdown was by no means his smartest move in the Princeton game. In the last quarter, the crowd saw what looked like a tragedy when Dave Colwell, Yale's ace punter, operated on for appendicitis only three weeks before and sent into the game to kick out of the end zone, was knocked unconscious two plays later...
...mistakes it had saved up through an unbeaten season. Heap, hero against Wisconsin, fumbled twice. Toth, titan against Minnesota, failing to get off a punt, was tackled deep in his own territory. Capitalizing blunders like these, punching holes in Northwestern's tired line, Notre Dame put over one touchdown in each quarter, wrecked Northwestern's hopes of a national championship...
...Baugh's rifle-shot passes brought the first touchdown, set the stage for the second that put Texas Christian in a deadlock with Arkansas for the Southwest Conference title, 13-to-0 against Rice...