Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great football machine which Percy D. Haughton set in motion 16 years ago will cease functioning for one day in honor of his memory. The world-famous gridiron coach will be buried this afternoon. Consequently all football practice will be suspended...
Special motion picture attractions in the form of four separate pictures will be shown at the Harvard Union on the night of November 4, it was announced by-the Union. The pictures will consist of "Gridiron Glory", a football picture in fast and slow motion; "Taking a Chance", hazardous moments from all forms of sport both in fast and slow motion; "Three Foolish Weeks", a burlesque on Eleanor Glynn's famous story, with Ben Turpin as the fair-haired hero; and an "Aesop Fable", an animated cartoon by Paul Terry...
...record crowd of Harvard and Dartmouth undergraduates is expected at the Third Intercollegiate Ball, which is to be held in the grand ballroom of the Copley Plaza Hotel this evening and tomorrow night as a part of the festivities accompanying the big gridiron encounter tomorrow...
...theory that the momentous games in a gridiron schedule do not come until November is passing completely into the discard. A good half dozen contests today have the true "big game" tinge. They have aroused big game enthusiasm and will draw capacity crowds...
...have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school...