Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season, which were not regularly assigned. These, it would seem, allowed sufficient scope for the gaining of all the advantages offered under the rotating plan, except that late season games with redoubted foes were difficult to arrange. Still, nowadays, with a tendency to eliminate the "soft spots" from the gridiron campaign, the order in which the Crimson takes on its opponents is of less importance...
...standing with the Freshmen, and practically always provide a stiff battle. Last fall it was only after three scoreless periods that 1931 was finally able to break through the fighting Exeter team. The Worcester team which has been unusually strong in the last few years, held the Freshman gridiron men to a scoreless tie. The list as follows is subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee...
Plans for the 1929 University football season were a step nearer completion yesterday when it was announced by the H. A. A. that Harvard would meet the University of Florida on the gridiron, November 2, 1929, at Cambridge. This will be the first encounter between the two elevens since 1922, when Harvard was victorious...
Coach Arnold Horween '20 will come East to take charge of the three weeks of sessions scheduled for the University gridiron candidates. His assistants have not yet been appointed, although an announcement of selections is expected soon...
...Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas," wrote Virgil, but in this instance much more fortunate is he who can divine the results of the new course at Annapolis. Those whose illusions concerning the virile midshipman, puissant hero of the boxing ring, the gridiron and the crows nest of a cruiser battling a nasty northwestern, have been shattered are warned against visualizing future admirals in knickers wielding mashles. There are some things, which a narrow deck and a heaving ocean will not permit. Golf might be said to come under the general category...