Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following the usual black-board talk in the Locker Building, the squad trotted out in a drizzling rain for its first workout on the Stadium gridiron, which has been returfed during the summer. H. R. Hardwick '15 took the backs in hand, and showed them a number of points on taking men out and general interference work, using a dummy and straw in one corner of the field. After that the backs caught punts, which gave them especially useful practice in handling a wet pig-skin. Meanwhile there was charging practice for the linesmen. For the last forty minutes...
...Radio team is composed of former college gridiron stars, as is also the Devens eleven. Three All-American football men are in the army line-up. Captain Hoban at fullback is a former Dartmouth star, Captain McGuire played with the Army team several years, and Malone at halfback, who was mentioned as an All-American field general; comes from Syracuse...
Fast football will be seen tomorrow afternoon in the Stadium when the University service eleven clashes with the Tufts S. A. T. C. gridiron team. All men in the military or naval service of the United States will be admitted free to this contest which will mark the opening of the schedule of the University squad...
...Ordinarily such a middle course inclines to be a weak one, but in the present instance this does not hold true. The men who have given their time and energy to athletics and who have represented the University to the best of their ability, be it on river or gridiron, diamond or rink, deserve recognition of some sort. This acknowledgement should be of a special kind, to exist only for the duration of the war, and to be superseded by the regular insignia when peace comes and the University resumes its natural course. Whether the change should be to decrease...
Each chorus will sing the three football marches, "Harvardiana," "Gridiron King" and "Soldiers Field," in order to provide a basis of comparison for the judges, of whom President Lowell will be one. The list of songs for the three choruses together is planned as follows, part songs being omitted...