Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although many more teams have been playing football this year than a year ago, only nine football players were killed in the entire country this fall, as against 15 last season. The nine who met death as the result of gridiron injuries ranged from 11 to 21 years of age and with two or three exceptions the deaths came as the result of poor conditions. A lack of training for serious football competition is, according to experts, responsible for nearly 90 per cent. of all deaths from football...
...interesting to note this explanation of the Blue's disaster--an explanation which apparently would have us believe that the "Haughton system" depends upon a well-thumbed note-book full of football methods and gridiron strategy...
Although the wooden stands at the Stadium have been made larger than ever before this year, and as a consequence have been placed three yards farther back, yet their occupants will be nearer the field of play than in the past, for the gridiron has been moved five yards nearer. The seats in the bowl will not be materially affected by this change...
...preparatory school student is only human, and when he finds older men, men, it may be, who have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard...
...Living Room of the Union was crowded by about 700 members Saturday afternoon who watched each play of the Harvard-Princeton football contest, from the CRIMSON's direct wire from the Palmer Stadium. A blackboard gridiron was set up on the platform so that each play could be shown. At intervals the Union orchestra played football songs and popular music, and the enthusiasm in the Living Room was almost as great as the enthusiasm of the eye witnesses...