Word: gridiron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nearly forty years have rolled by since Harvard and Yale first met on the gridiron. When this paper appears they will have played their thirty-third game. In all these years football has gone through its vicissitudes with faculties and rules committees, until today it has assumed a place in the whole country which is unapproached by any amateur sport. And at the same time in these particular games it has served the worthy purpose of bringing Harvard and Yale, players and supporters, into close, sometimes warlike but generally friendly, touch with one another...
...theme of two thirds of all the essays submitted. The submerged tenth, it would thus appear, is not altogether without hope of emerging from the obscurity that is the lot of the harmless, necessary scholar, into something of the light that beats so fiercely upon a gridiron. The griev- ance of these intellectuals is not simply the monopoly of college yells and admiring glances that greet the football captain wherever he is so gracious as to show himself. Their complaint goes deeper. The tangible rewards of university life are reserved, not for honor men, but for those who have defended...
...example, athletic sports have more sociability and dramatic appeal to offer; why not transfer these to the intellectual field? Mr. Chubb follows out this idea more cleverly, perhaps, than practically. His scheme would really come down to this: he would like the scholastic victor to be carried from the gridiron of intellectual contest on the (figurative) shoulders of his comrades amid the overwhelming cheers of a crowded (symbolic) stadium! Mr. Chubb knows very well he is only trying to strike the undergraduate in that "last infirmity of noble mind...
...Coach Haughton and his methods have finally come into their own. That they are now supreme in the gridiron game no one will deny. For five years the Crimson coach has been endeavoring to prove the efficiency of his methods. Now, no one will question them. Harvard should occupy the place in the college football game that has hitherto been given to Yale...
...ever ready to take advantage of Yale's miscues; not only did it distinguish itself by fighting with as great determination and spirit as has ever been shown by any team; but it played one of the cleanest and most sportsmanlike contests of football ever seen on the gridiron. This victory over the hard-fighting, clean-playing Yale eleven was one of the greatest ever gained by Harvard and to Captain Wendell, who has proved himself an admirable leader, and to the players, who have shown pluck, courage and spirit during the season, we extend our congratulations on this final...