Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring practice session, it was learned yesterday from W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Shaughnessy will arrive from Canada in a few days and will assist Horween in developing backfield material to succeed Captain A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaccia '29, lateral pass experts of the 1928 gridiron machine...
...preliminary to the actual opening of Harvard's spring football practice, all candidates for the gridiron squad will meet tomorrow night in the Varsity Club at 7.15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by W. P. Lage '30, successor to W. S. Youngman '29 as manager of the team...
Takings. Mr. Coolidge took away ten pounds more of flesh than he had on going to the White House. He also took: an engraved golden gridiron from the Gridiron (press) Club; the official picture of his Cabinet autographed by each member; a microphone on a stand built to his measure by the National Broadcasting Co. (Mr. Coolidge, surprised by this last minute gift, said he could use the stand to take his breakfast on); and his final monthly pay check from the U. S. Government ($6,250); contracts to write articles for the Cosmopolitan and American magazines, and the Ladies...
...best newspaper account of the Yale-Princeton game of 1911 reads as follows: "A sensational, spectacular run of 65 yards by 'Sammy' White, Princeton's hero end, who picked up a fumbled ball out of the quagmire gridiron, won the football game for the Tigers against Yale this afternoon. It was the first time Princeton has beaten Yale since 1903. The score...
...announcement of the Brown-Dartmouth lapse in gridiron relations starting next fall has been supplemented by the Boston newspapers with much speculation and ballyhoo concerning the 1929 Harvard coaching situation. Mr. Bingham's concise statement calms the troubled waters and points to the logical solution of whatever problems exist...