Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., October 29--Yale's 1926 football schedule, as released by the Yale Athletic Association, shows but one change from this year's gridiron program...
...slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear...
...dance-floor the Big Green is as far ahead of Harvard as on the gridiron, according to the bellboy, who admitted that he had been impressed by the Terpsichorean demonstration put on by the men from Hanover. "In their dancing it was the same way as with their football. They had punch, pep, and knew what was coming next every minute. On football Harvard was satisfies with straight football, and their dancing was the same way. Out in the Stadium, Dartmouth put on trick plays, and here they went in for the Charleston. Yes sir, they put on a snake...
Starting in the fall of their Sophomore year, these 25 take turns at managing all the Dartmouth teams. In the fall, for instance, after a week's work on the gridiron, a candidate will aid the cross-country manager for a week, and then move over to the soccer field for seven days before again reporting to the football management...
...fact--perhaps not generally known by those who charge us with lack of courtesy--that, with the exception of two of the Yale songs, none of the songs of those colleges which are our opponents on the gridiron are available at any price in band arrangement, and in some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease. On the other hand such Harvard songs as "Our Director" and "Veritas" are standard marches and can be purchased at any time in band arrangement, and In some cases even vocal or piano copies...