Word: grid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton game tomorrow will be able, for the first time, to sit at their own radio sets in Cambridge and get the report of the contest from an eye-witness. There will also be a receiving set in the Living Room of the Union, with an electrical grid-graph, for the convenience of members...
...large crowd that is expected to fill the Living Room of the Union will, by means of a combination of radio reports and an apparatus known as the "grid-graph," be able to follow the game play by play...
...grid-graph system has a miniature playing field, with lights representing the kind of play, the position of the ball, and the player carrying the ball. All these lights flash simultaneously with the vocal description of the play as it is announced by radio. On the side of the board representing the gridiron other lights flash the score, the period, and the time left to play. Substitutions are also noted on the side of the board as each change in position occurs...
Returns from the Yale game will be received this afternoon in the Living Room of the Union by radio, and will also be shown on a newly designed reporting board called the grid-graph. This is a large board with a device whereby flashing lights indicate the line-up of the team and the direction of play, and also the direction in which the ball is carried. The picture received by a spectator is similar to the one that a person suspended over the field of play would have, if each player had a steadily burning light always showing overhead...
...first boat proved too much for their rivals and served to place three quarters of a length between the two shells at the finish. A. C. M. 3 won the decision from the fourth autumn crew by the same distance. The second experienced football crew, pitted against the inexperienced grid oarsmen, provided by far the closest race of the afternoon. The two shells ploughed their way through the waves on comparatively even terms throughout the course, a scant three feet being the latter eight's margin of victory at the finish flags. The first football crew experienced no difficulty...