Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most distinguished coaches of athletes. Dressing for an afternoon's work- coaching the Columbia University football team, in Manhattan, he was stricken suddenly with acute indigestion which proved fatal almost before it seemed dangerous. "P. D." Haughton, Haughton of Harvard, Haughton of football, with genius for building gridiron machinery, had just capped many notable accomplishments with the re-creation of Columbia's once-potent elevens. Twenty years ago he built up Cornell. From 1908 to 1916 he rendered Harvard nearly unbeatable. Last week his Columbia team, which he had abuilding for two seasons, smashed Williams, the conqueror...
Today's principal gridiron contests have a decided "big game" tinge. With the exception of Harvard and Princeton, all the leading eastern universities are meeting strong opposition. The games which are attracting most attention are those of Yale-Army, Pennsylvania-Lafayette, and Dartmouth-Brown. The morale of each of these teams as it takes the field this afternoon will be the determining factor in its game...
...EXPECT GRIDIRON UPSETS, SAYS CRIMSON DOPESTER...
...squad contains men who have starred for various schools before besides two brothers of Yale Team A regulars, Kline and Stur- han, a substitute tackle. According to the assistant coach who travelled to Boston with the team last night in the absence of Mallory, whose duties on the Yale gridiron are keeping him in New Haven for the weekend, Milford has two backfields of almost equal ability available for today's battle...
...Army is probably not so intense as that between the Big Three, the annual battle has become one of the greatest spectacles in intercollegiate football. The military manoeuvres performed by some 1200 cadets in the Bowl, prior to the game, attract thousands that ordinarily take little interest in the gridiron classics...