Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University football teams of the three years from 1896 to 1899. For several years after his graduation he was an assistant coach in charge of the kickers on the Crimson squad, and in 1907, after a particularly disastrous season, he assumed complete control of the University's gridiron destinies. During the next eight years the Crimson reached the pinnacle of its football glory under his skillful guidance. He produced teams which crushed the Blue five times and tamed the Tiger on four occasions. Under his regime, the University lost but once to Princeton and once to Yale...
...merely a producer of winning football machines, but a close and well loved friend and counselor. Although he appeared cold blooded and even cruel upon the football field, the real kindliness in his nature was always apparent when he was not concentrating his faculties upon gridiron success...
Eleven players wearing the Andover Blue for the first time this season will face the University Second team this afternoon on the schoolboys' gridiron. Coach Daley, the Andover mentor, is not expecting an easy afternoon with the Harvard seconds, but his objective game with Exeter is but two weeks distant and he can afford to take no chances with his first string men, so he is sending in a full team of substitutes...
Princeton, N. J., November 5, 1924.-Preparations for the Harvard gridiron contest are coming to a head on the campus here, accompanied by a feeling that we have at least a toss-up chance to win Saturday. Practice lasted one hour and a half this afternoon, and consisted mostly of a fast signal drill for both the first and second elevens...
Moving pictures of several of last year's big football games will be shown at the Union tomorrow evening as part of the special program to be given on Election night. The picture "Gridiron Glory" will feature scenes and plays from the Columbia-Dartmouth game last year at the Polo Grounds and the Lafayette-Georgia Tech game. A variety of training and conditional stunts such as tackling with dummy, using the charging machines and running crouched under cords to make a line charge low, will also be shown...