Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied to the gridiron. Telegrams are delivered on paper of a hue the mere mention of which in a locker room is enough to make every shower in the place run cold...
With but one more day of preparation before Harvard's first invasion of a Middle-Western gridiron, the University football squad went through a light but brisk workout yesterday afternoon. There was no contact work whatsoever, as the Crimson coaching staff was taking no chances of running afoul of the injury jinx...
Lured away by the prospect of seeing an epic gridiron struggle and by a desire to find out what the Yale team looks like under fire, Time Out took a journey to New Haven on Saturday. The epic struggle was there alright and Yale with littler Albie Both in the Starring role looked pretty fine under fire; so the trip was a success...
...Florida football forces which come to the Stadium on Saturday are an experienced and well-trained group of gridiron performers. Of the twenty-eight men making the trip to Cambridge, twenty are lettermen who earned their suprs playing on the 1928 eleven, the strongest ever produced at the Gainesville institution. They rolled up a total of 336 points in their nine game schedule, more than any other college team in the country. Their nearest competitor was the touted New York University team which could compile only...
While an aroused, Yale building was putting Cagle's cohorts to flight in New Haven, a strong Dartmouth eleven buried the Harvard football team under the greatest total of points in the history of Crimson and Green gridiron rivalry...