Word: grid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varsity tackle on the '45 eleven and rumored as a favorite in the forthcoming elections for captain of the '46 grid team, Fisher will represent major sports on the Committee; Ross, captain of the crew, will represent minor sports; Wilson, chairman of the Inter-House Athletics Committee, will represent intramural athletic activities...
...clear case of brains over brawn in Lowell this year. While the Bellboy grid giants are playing doormat to the intramural loop, the Lowell chess team captured the inter-House championship. The other Houses could not come close to checking the Bellboy wizards of Caissa; until Monday night Kirkland A had matched the champions point for point, but they failed to win a single game when the chips were down...
...Winthrop-Kirkland contest his afternoon will wind up the first half of the intramural grid season. Eliot has secured the winning spot, with Adams in second place...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...
...Bingham was the Presidents' Agreement, 1923 football document governing the grid activities of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which he hoped would be "scrapped and thrown into the Charles River." Commenting on this document, he said that he wished colleges would be open-minded in facing post-war athletic problems...