Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What I Think of Today's Game"--Ten former gridiron heroes including Al Marsters, comment on the Harvard-Yale game...
...arduous drive of the 1929 football campaign has ended. Yesterday afternoon's light offensive and defensive drill brought to a close the preparation of Harvard's gridiron forces for tomorrow's climatic struggle with the powerful eleven from Yale...
This news will be a great relief to undergraduates who had visions yesterday of a gridiron covered with snow, and a mass of soggy turf tomorrow on which the Crimson would face the Bulldogs in the classic game of the season...
...that not nearly so many graduates now enter the ministry as formerly used to be the case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned how to do it partly on the gridiron. What Princeton needs is not more clergymen among her alumni, but more mighty men of valor on her football team...
...over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called him "the greatest defensive end that ever trod the gridiron...