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Perhaps the best known player making the grid team is halfback Dick Jauron of Yale. Jauron, the first Eli to crack the 1000-yard barrier, gained 1055 in the Elis' nine-game season. He won the Harry Agganis Award as the top football player in New England...
...Indiana, Doyle attended the powerhouse of elementary school football in the area--St. Joseph's of Mishawaka. Catholic elementary schools in the area were never allowed to tangle with public schools of the same grade level. The outcome would predictably turn the stomach of even the most blood thirsty grid fiend...
Snavely's hometown is Pittsburgh, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School and starred in football as well as being president of his senior class. He admits that his happiest moments were then, when he led his team to the Pennsylvania state grid championship...
Steve says that his Harvard experience "hasn't been all that great" mainly due to major setbacks in his athletic career. In freshmen football, Snavely never broke into the regular line-up, and as a sophomore he abandoned his grid career completely because he didn't want to play under John Yovicson's coaching staff...
...Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations of communities like Germantown, to the present sprawling conurbation. It diagrams the changing patterns of ethnic distribution. The old Irish, Russian and German neighborhoods have largely dispersed; only the Italians in south Philadelphia and the blacks...