Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours of drill on fundamentals followed by a ten minute scrimmage between teams A and B was the work prescribed by Head Coach Arnold Horween '20 for his gridiron charges yesterday afternoon. At the conclusion of the workout Horween declined to announce even a tentative line-up for the Vermont game Saturday. The final decision as to several of Saturday's starting line-up still seems remote, with several ends battling on almost even terms, one guard position unsettled, and the center situation somewhat doubtful...
...hundred and forty-one Freshmen donned football togs yesterday and reported to Coach E. E. Casey '19 in the opening practice of the first-year gridiron season at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...Parkinson '29, and G. I. Shapiro '28 are at present Stewart's leading rivals. Despite the fact that he weighs only 170 pounds Parkinson is fast and has a knack of getting across the line of scrimmage which may win him a place among the University's first eleven gridiron representatives. Parkinson was captain of the Groton School team three years ago and then played regularly on his Freshman team after coming to college. Last year he was shifted to center where he was somewhat handicapped by his unfamiliarity with the position. Back at guard again Parkinson appears to have...
...addition to Simonds, Stewart, Parkinson, and Shapiro. Coaches Corney and Dunne have one other experienced guard at their disposal this fall, B. C. Tripp '28. Tripp's gridiron career since he entered college has been a series of ups and downs, and it is very difficult to predict anything about his possibilities this year. He played more or less regularly on the 1928 first year team and in his Sophomore year rose rapidly to University and first team standing. He started the 1925 game at Princeton in one of the guard positions, but in the shake up following the Crimson...
...This year he has risen to first string ranking, and according to reports which emanate from the secret Soldiers Field practice sessions gives promise of great further improvement. Clark is six feet, five inches tall, weighs 210 pounds this year, and has the power to place him among the gridiron's leading giants. On the effectiveness with which he can use this power depends to a certain extent the strength of Harvard's tackles in this fall's encounters...