Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Massachusetts played Harvard is football three times before 1916 and failed to score a touchdown. In the 38 years since then, the UMass Redmen have not met any Ivy League college on the gridiron. When they enter Harvard Stadium this afternoon, however, Coach Charlie O'Rourke's eleven will be shooting not for just a touchdown or an impressive showing, but for a major upset and their second straight win of the year...
...Redmen came from behind last Saturday to beat A.I.C., 32 to 27. They scored the decided touchdown with just two minutes left in the game when sophomore quarterback Tommy Whalon coolly threw a 30-yard pass to second-string end Vic Bissonnette. Bissonnette caught the ball on the A.I.C. 12-yard line and scored easily from there...
...Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes in the back of his head, Boydston snaked away from the only other Bear in reach and completed an 87-yd. touchdown...
After that, Oklahoma scored twice more. California got another touchdown, mainly on short, sharp passes by Quarterback Paul Larson, but the Bears never got back in the game. Heading home to Oklahoma on the long end of a 27-13 score, Coach Wilkinson wasted no time working out new ways to make his boys sweat. If they could get by the University of Texas next month, they might finish the season undefeated. It was a heady thought...
...paint the ball red, white and blue. But the Indians had an unending supply of good-natured guile. Once before, Quarterback Frank Mount Pleasant had waited patiently for the right opportunity, shoved the ball under Teammate Charlie Dillon's jersey, and almost beat Harvard with a hidden-ball touchdown...