Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form-charters had made Ohio State a two-touchdown favorite over Southern...
California, and for once, after a season of upsets, the form boys were right. Southern Cal uncorked the biggest excitement of the day: an 86-yard runback of a punt by Halfback Aramis Dandoy for a touchdown (and the longest punt return in Rose Bowl history). But that was the Trojans' only score...
...Lions had worked their old hex on the Browns, winning the game, in a driving snowstorm, by 14 to 10. Brilliant Quarterback Bobby Layne (TIME, Nov. 29), passing as if it were a calm, dry day, completed six passes in the closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field, the sun was shining, the ground was almost dry, and there was only a slight wind. The fireworks began instantly. On the first play after...
Detroit came to life momentarily in the second quarter: after a 52-yd. run by Lew Carpenter, and a Layne pass that put the Lions on the Cleveland four, Detroit's Bowman plunged over for the Lions' only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed...
...ring." Besides boxing, Dudley is annually at the top, or near there, in hockey and table tennis. Dudley's athletic secretary likes to describe house spirit in terms of the football team's "fight"--against one of Yale's best house teams the Center lost by only one touchdown. A veteran observer at the IAB holds a slightly different interpretation. "It seems to me that on defensive goal line stands Dudley can fight back against anyone, but when they go on the offense, nothing quite comes off right." Whether correct or not, it is true that much of Dudley...