Word: grid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the stadium was built in 1903 it was considered capacious enough to hold a crowd at any Harvard Yale grid-iron battle. In recent years, however, with the annual game coming more into prominence, the ever-growing size of the University and its alumni body, and the resultant larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace...
There were high jinks in Wasington, Saturday night, when the newspaper correspondents of that city, with the politically great as their guests, met to hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege...
...West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...
Dunne, who played on the University of Michigan eleven four years, from 1918 to 1921, inclusive, as an end, at tackle, and finishing his grid career as a guard, was considered one of the best players in the West. Schooled in football by the veteran coach, F. H. Yest, he will bring to Harvard a thorough knowledge of a system that has won great success in the Western Conference. Dunne has kept in close touch with football since his graduation, and is fully abreast of developments of the past few years...
Only members of the Union, bearing their membership cards, will be admitted to the Yale game broadcast. The recording will start at the same time play begins in the Bowl. The reports will be flashed to W. C. Bramble '23, veteran grid-graph operator...