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Word: touchdowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Crimson on the top of a 33 to 0 score going into the fourth quarter and the hall in its possession on the Green Terrors' 45 yard line, Harvard rooters began the chant, "We want a touchdown...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...lettermen, including the outstanding halfback threat Thomas (Chip) Gannon, who runs best to port and huris passes lefthanded. There is six-foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an injury was a mortal blow to the team, There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...lettermen, including the outstanding halfback threat Thomas (Chip) Gannon, who runs best to port and hurls passes lefthanded. There is six-foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team. There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...Blanchard & Glenn Davis, the touchdown twins, doing time on the Great Rock Candy Pile, where they are making a movie for Paramount, had one of those prison-type pictures made. They will soon have to give up sweets, though, to play with the Eastern College All-Stars against the professional New York Giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...power switch for the district had been pulled. And that seemed to be a prearranged signal. Like a well-trained football formation, the Communists began pressing toward the speaker's stand, shouting: "Munkások egyesüljetek!" (Workers unite!). It had the cadence of: "We want a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Munk | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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