Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forward. Then, with the whole Nebraska team massed on the left side of the field to tackle him, he flipped the ball backward to left halfback Andy Uram. Uram streaked down the right side of the field. Before Nebraska had recovered from its surprise, he had scored the touchdown that won for Minnesota its 19th game in succession...
...current increase in Minnesota's football prestige (the team was unofficially ranked as national champion in 1934 and 1935, is considered likely to repeat this year) is the result of the addition of brains to its football teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement of a well-stated and thoroughly rehearsed process which became the pattern of Minnesota football when Coach Bernard William Bierman took it in hand...
...general, Minnesota's football policy under Bierman has been to let opponents wear themselves out in the first half, produce touchdowns in the second. Each touchdown is supposed to come not from one play but a series of plays, in which the last is a carefully arranged climax. The series, which may consist of as many as six plays, is supposed to contain six times as much deceptiveness as can be put into one play. If one series of touchdown plays does not work, a Minnesota quarter back is supposed to have at his mental fingertips half a dozen...
...second touchdown began with a run-back of a punt by Roberts to the 28-yard line. Struck then bucked for a first down. The B team tightened up for what looked like a goal line stand, but Roberts spiralled to Staples to place the ball in scoring position, and completed the job by plagging the ball across himself in the best power play of the game. He also converted...
...Third touchdown materialized from a blocked kick, recovered and run across the line by Charlie Kessler--his first touchdown in three years of Harvard football. Houghton converted...