Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however, it is also possible for a tennis, player to be an absolute quitter and yet be excused as merely "off his game" or "temperamentally unfortunate...
...newly appointed song leader. The latter, who led the singing at Camp Devens during the war, instilled a spirit into the gathering such as has not been seen at Harvard since the fall of 1916. Time and again the room rang to the tunes of "Harvardiana" and "The Gridiron King" until the leader was satisfied and Trumbull took the stand...
...Trumbull, who will speak, is one of the assistant coaches of this year's team, and is himself a former All-American tackle. In 1915 he was elected captain of the University team after C. E. Brickley '15 had been forced to quit the gridiron on account of appendicitis...
Today, for the first time in three years, Harvard meets another college on the gridiron. This is no ordinary first game of the season. The team expects and should receive a big crowd of spectators...
...receiving punts by the backs, the ends going down under the kicks. Each of the first three teams then had a turn at receiving kick-offs and carrying the ball back. The scrimmage was called at 5 o'clock when the black-jerseyed squad trotted onto the Stadium gridiron. The University team showed to better advantage than it has hitherto and made long gains through the seconds at will. C. A. Clark, Jr., Occ., scrimmaged for the first time...