Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gridiron hostilities, and Holy Cross stood at the long, long end of a 26-6 score, a good many fans raised the usual cry about Harvard's perennial football weakness. But while these experts were rushing off to the goal posts to defend their college's honor, back in Dillon Field House Coach Eddie Anderson and his entire Crusader squad were voicing a unanimous praise of the work of the Crimson linesmen and were frankly admitting that if it hadn't been for one James H. Hobin the situation might have been quite different...
...last Doctor Gus Thorndike has found a use for the football squad's unfortunately large list of injuries. After spending days worrying about the ailments of his athletic clients at Dillon Field House, the Doctor yesterday turned lecturer and guide for a group of his colleagues from the American College of Surgeons...
This dinner has its only precedent at Harvard in the annual dinner of the Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track teams. When the new lounge in the Dillon Field House was first completed, however, members of opposing football teams were invited to partake of the coffee and sandwiches which were served there following the games in the Stadium. This arrangement was designed as a gathering place for friends but it proved unsatisfactory because the players appeared for refreshments in direct proportion to their score. Thus the losing team was always very poorly represented...
...make Mrs. Reid and her friends feel that the world is moving forward. The list of lose who hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator...
...game outfit is several ounces lighter than the practice uniform. While even the practice uniform is lighter than the equipment handed out last year at the Dillon field House, this year's game uniform is several ounces lighter still. The reason for the loss in weight which the players suffer between the practice field behind he Stadium and the gridiron of the Stadium itself is the fact that in a game, the athletes wear feather weight shoes--speed shoes--made to fit like kid gloves. Not all of the players undergo this loss of poundage, since the tackles...