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In 1922, Rock Island beat Evansville 60-0 on 9 rushing TDs.

My initial thought on this was Van Brocklin's 554-yard passing game against the NY Yanks on 9/28/1951. Per PFR, the Rams ran 29 times and attempted 42 passes for 735 net yards, or 10.35 yards per play.

Question 1: 0, 2, 6, 17, 23, 25, 26, 30, 35, 38, 47, 48, 52, 59, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69, 72, 83, 84, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98

Question 2: I could only find five of six. 7, 12, 28, 40, 70. I found four for 14, 34, 77, 78, 80

Cordarrelle Patterson vs. the Bears. He had one in 2013 with the Vikings, another in 2018 with the Patriots, and the third one in 2022 with the Falcons.

Player #1 is Greg Best.

I have the newspaper article from the Providence Evening Tribune, but it's too large to post here. According to the article, Slater and Wilson both started. This is the first pro football article I've seen that references gangster Al Capone.

Carl Taseff.

Bonus question #1: Jim Hunt, Patriots

In about a half dozen newspaper articles, I've seen Don Hutson called the "Alabama Antelope". In one article, Rick Casares was referred to as "Florida License Plate Number 35". These appear to made-up by the press guys.

No, I went directly to the files and tried one at a time. I need to download 1975-1980. I hope this doesn't happen with those.