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Unfortunately, the other three prose attempts do not measure up to the first two. Taking a poor third, is one of those Daisy-turned-Gridder things that can be funny only at high school football banquets. And then there's "The Peanuts Myth" that uses the reductio ad absurd to no great advantage. This particular one involves nineteenth-century Ivy athletes playing football in motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Lampoon | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Best of all, at left half, is a player Davidson describes as follows: "If any All-Southern and All-American gridder was ever produced at Davidson, Jimmy Thacker is the lad." On the basis of his play this season, Thacker...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Winless Davidson Is 4-Touchdown Underdog | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

Callanan, who is pretty happy over the way his men have adapted themselves to the English style of playing football, has several good backs. Captain Joe Eaton, John Densmore, and former varsity gridder Sam Adams all show speed and a knack in handling the ball in the fluid and constant action which typifies rugger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Club Plays MIT Squad Today | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...rally's aftermath, Sergeant Toomey and three other members of the University gendarmerie had their hands full in providing police protection for a life-sized dummy of a Dartmouth gridder, which had overlooked the proceedings from the end of a rope attached to a tree near the Blockhouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welkin Rings as Beery Marchers Chant Indian Death Knell in Fiery Eisteddfod | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

With seven pass interceptions and runbacks totalling 176 yards, the Crimson's Ken O'Donnell was the fourth ranking gridder in the nation on his number of grabs and second by one yard in runbacks, according to figures released last night by the Associated Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ken O'Donnell Ranks Second On Runbacks of Interceptions | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

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