Word: grid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan is taking its football pretty seriously this fall. The players have decided to dedicate the year to "Hurry-Up" Yoat, the grand old man of Michigan football. As grid coach and director of athletics, he was responsible for the development of one of the finest athletic plants in the country at the Ann Arbor institution. Coach Crisler has great material and a chance to scale dizzy heights if his reserve line strength proves adequate...
...stronger team than last year sparked by fine spirit is the forecast Dick Harlow makes for his 1940 Crimson grid machine the day before its first game of the year. There is no climax runner among, the starting backfield quartet, and line reserves are still a problem, but the first team, weighing in at 188 pounds from tackle to tackle, will give a good account of itself...
Harvard drawn a stiff opening grid assignment this coming Saturday afternoon in little Amherst, a 32 to 7 victor over Hobart. Both their line and the backfield were raked heavily by last June's graduation, but the present Purple and While gridmen are primed to shoot the works against the Crimson. Amherst still remembers an October day in 1903 when its plucky eleven authored a stunning 5 to 0 upset of mighty Harvard...
...glass-enclosed bridge looking down on a huge map at the R. A. F.'s Fighter Command GHQ, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding last week kept tabs on these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various...
With each contribution book the H.A.A. will hand out a packet of tickets for all Soldiers Field grid contests, thereby giving each student a permanent seat for the season. For the Pennsylvania and Yale games, which will be played out of town this year, students will have to exchange contribution book coupons for tickets as in former years...