Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down by them in the form we know it today. In its present form the game offers opportunity for 12 men to play on a side, a large number for a sport providing such stiff competition. It is played usually on a field about the size of a football gridiron, or to be exact, 110 yards long by 70 yards wine. Goals are placed at either end of the field into which the ball must be thrown in order to score. Each goal counts one point...
Open practice for University football graduates will be one of the novelties of next fall's gridiron season, Coach Fisher announced at the annual dinner of the Varsity Club in the Union last night. Coach Fisher said, "I am convinced that it will be an excellent thing both for the coaches and the players of the present to come into closer contact with the football men of the past...
...Floors must be painted, rugs replaced. From the storehouse Mrs. Coolidge brought forth a table inset with brass; also, a chair of President Jackson's, which she placed in Mr. Coolidge's study. ¶The President, with a company of the great, attended the 40th spring dinner of the Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins, Bill and Charlie,'" "Walsh, the wild man, who goes wild on oil and sugar." The LaFollette crowd, it was announced, had crawled under the tent and set up a three-shell game. Finally...
...practical to undergo this training! When they graduate from the university, they need only open their months and roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...
...passing of the greatest figure in the history of American football. To the horde of readers of sporting pages he was simply the omnipotent eye in the game which saw all, knew all, and through his mythical. All-American teams, published the annual Who's Who of the gridiron. Through this medium Walter Camp was known to the obscurest enthusiast who knew nothing of his uncontested right to sit in judgment over the national college sport...