Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson football team were put through a hard hour of scrimmage yesterday afternoon. Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, by sending his charges into actual scrimmage within ten days after the beginning of the spring practice session, has made a departure from the precedent set by Harvard gridiron mentors of previous years...
Although the workout was held behind the high board fences surrounding the gridiron and little is known about the plays which transpired within the enclosure, it is understood that the newly-developed lateral pass played a large part in the scrimmage...
Harvard's 1927 football campaign will be opened this afternoon when the Crimson gridiron candidates meet Head Coach Arnold Horween '21 and a large corps of assistants in the Locker Building at 2:30 o'clock...
...President's henchman, Frank Waterman Stearns, was re-named "the Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...