Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson Freshmen will play the strong Exeter eleven this afternoon on the second team gridiron on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock...
From the first Harvard-Holy Cross game in 1904 to the first Holy Cross victory in 1925, the story of Crimson-Purple gridiron clashes is one of an increasingly successful struggle on the part of the crusaders to break through the Crimson tradition of victory. Until 1920 Harvard had always won by a comfortable margin, a triumph over the Worcester eleven being taken for granted at the beginning of each football season. But in 1920 and again in 1921 Holy Cross teams came to the Stadium which were about a match for the best the University had and which surrendered...
...open date appears on the gridiron list. Brown has been dropped and Holy Cross will fill the place on the schedule before the Yale game, hitherto occupied by the Bruins Springfield and Lehigh are the other newcomers to the Crimson football banquet. All games are to be played in Cambridge except the Yale game at New Haven...
When the University football squad gathered at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon for its first workout after the grueling Purdue encounter, Coach Arnold Horween '20 ordained a policy of retracing the first steps in a gridiron education. A rigid drill in the fundamentals of football for every squad member, irrespective of rank, was the order of the afternoon...
Early in October, 1921, a football team from the University of Indiana left the Stadium, after vainly attempting to check a powerful Crimson offense, on the short end of a 19 to 0 score. After a six year interlude in gridiron relations between Cambridge and the Middle West, the football representatives of Purdue, another Indiana university, appeared on the Stadium turf last Saturday and reversed by the same count the former Harvard Hoosier football verdict...