Word: grid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counting up the nickels and dimes and the few dollar bills in the Stadium last Saturday, the University Band Tallied its take at a mere $250. In order to assure themselves of new uniforms and transpiration for the Dartmouth grid contest, the Band estimated their needs...
...field during playing-time it was a Crimson-jerseyed football team that you watched, an eleven that brought back memories--happy and unhappy--of the last years of formal grid competition. For the spectators saw a football team that had been superbly coached but had not quite caught up with its coaching, that had not yet developed the timing necessary to execute the ball-handling that is part of any Harlow system, T or otherwise...
...Crimson grid squads have never been noted for a surplus, of first rate backs. Endicott Peabody was more of a here than Franny Lee--even starting with the tremendous handicap which his guard position gave him. Torby MacDonald was doubtless a great back, but injuries forced him to make more headlines than yardage against Yale. You have to go back to Vern Struck and even Barry Wood to hit a really top-notch backfield star in a Crimson uniform, and even then fingers were crossed all the time against possible injuries...
...when practice starts on Soldier's Field the day after Labor Day. It's conceded that the Yalies, among others, will present an awesome spectacle come November, but at least the Cambridge oologist has the basis for a Varsity squad which might inject a few surprises into the Eastern grid-iron picture...
...will use the system that our boys seem most adapted to," Coach Harlow stated last night prior to the first candidates, meeting at the Varsity Club at which 71 potential grid stars appeared to initiate spring practice...