Word: grid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an average daily attendance of 54, the best Harlow has had since he came to Cambridge in 1935, the grid mentor expressed pleasure with the attitude of the entire squad, calling special attention to "the leadership and the great improvement in play of Captain Russ Allen, who should be one of the outstanding guards of the East next Fall...
...inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid-iron lessons from him in Superior, Wis. Pat accompanies him from Miami University to act as Hawkeye line coach...
...defensemen are Smitty Jackson and Bill Platt, rugged center of the grid team...
...common. They coached highly respected football teams about to engage each other, they had the same birth date, October 8, and both had served as lieutenants in separate aero squadrons with the A. E. F. The final score was Army 13, Nebraska 3. In 1935 Nebraska's bald-headed grid tutor evened the score. His Cornhuskers trampled Major Jones Sooners of Oklahoma two years...
While Clint Frank, considered by many grid followers as the outstanding back of the East, gives the starting backfield a slight edge, this advantage is overbalanced by the eight first-string backs which Coach Howie Odell has been able to provide for the game. Struck and Hedblom at fullbacks; McTernen, Roberts, Oakes, and Stuart at wingbacks; and Wilson and Boston at quarterback will be substituted for each other with bewildering rapidity, keeping the attack quartet fresh at all times. And in case these eight should get winded, Ford and Watt have both rated starting berths during the season...