Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that definite arrangements have been completed for a gridiron contest between Harvard and the University of Michigan in 1929 will occasion little surprise among those who have followed the University's football policy for the last few years. The plan of making the Yale game the only permanent one on the Harvard schedule and of rotating all other opponents was definitely established by the Harvard athletic authorities last year and in general has worked successfully. The signing of a two year, home-and-home agreement with Michigan to replace Pennsylvania on the first November Saturday is a logicallstep...
...leader of the Crimson gridiron forces has been one of the fleetest of the ball-carrying squadron on Soldiers Field for the past two seasons, with a habit of breaking loose for long runs at critical moments in a game, especially if the time is running short. In the Dartmouth game of last year, with 90 seconds to play and the score 12 to 10 against Harvard, French dashed to the heights of gridiron glory when he found a hole in the Green bulwark, flicked to right and left, and covered 47 yards for a winning touchdown. In the closing...
...University football team, visiting Cambridge for the election of the football captain, will go into conference today with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Although the topics of discussion are not known, the possible choice of new assistant coaches, plans for the spring practice sessions, and gridiron schedules for 1929 and 1930 may be included in the ground to be covered in the conference
...rain-soaked Rochester gridiron tiny Hobart destroyed a rival of over 30 years. After losing only once all autumn, Rochester lost to their dearest enemy...
...most objectionable feature lies in the suspicion that the difficulty of enforcement is likely to arouse, Bingham pointed out. An example of this suspicion is seen in the following case: the coach of one of the University's gridiron opponents told his squad that he had positive information that a Harvard coach had scouted them during the previous week, when as a matter of fact, on the day concerning which the opposing coach had his "positive information" the Crimson coach in question was with Bingham 500 miles from the above mentioned opponent...