As the opening kick went airborne, there was a strong and cold northwesterly wind blowing across Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Field.
It was Nov. 12, 1920. The American Professional Football Association, which was renamed the National Football League in 1922, had just started playing games. Women had just gained the right to vote in the United States.
With less than five minutes to play in a football clash between neighboring Baltimore Catholic schools, Calvert Hall's Louis Walker caught a short pass from quarterback Ray Brooks and took off for the game-winning, 35-yard touchdown that lifted the Cardinals to a 9-3 victory against Loyola High School, now known as Loyola Blakefield.
