Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside of the clash in the Stadium this afternoon, however, the interest of football followers turns mostly to western fields. Two great conference games are on today's gridiron card. Wisconsin will try to stop its traditional rival, the powerful Michigan team, while Illinois, conqueror of Pennsylvania journeys to Chicago to meet the strong Windy City eleven. All of these teams are dangerous contenders for the "Big Ten" title and today's results should carry the combatants several steps nearer a decision for the recognized Middle Western supremacy...
Harvard will meet Purdue University of Lafayette, Indiana, in the second football game of the 1927 season according to an announcement made by the Harvard Athletic Association yesterday. The Purdue game completes the schedule of gridiron contests for next year...
With both Purdue and Indiana on the 1927 Crimson gridiron schedule, and Holy Cross retained, Harvard will be tackling one of the stiffest schedules that any Cambridge eleven has faced in a number of years...
...only has this commissary plan proved satisfactory, efficient, and comfortable, but it has welded the college more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...
Receiving the ball shortly after the opening whistle, the Freshmen marched steadily down the gridiron, breaking through the schoolboy forward wall, and gaining heavily on an occasional aerial thrust. Hitch finally broke from the scrimmage line and dashed forty yards for a touchdown. The try for point failed, and the scoring was ended for the first half...