Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown University may be the means of measuring the relative strength on the gridiron of the University and Yale, because this afternoon the Brown Bears clash with the Bulldogs in New Haven and three weeks hence they encounter the University. The University's other great rival, Princeton, is being entertained at Baltimore by the Navy...
Fired with enthusiasm by the mammoth mass meeting held in the Alumni Gymnasium last night and fresh from a hard two hours practice session on the Memorial Field gridiron this morning the Dartmouth football squad left Hanover at noon today for Boston. About 2300 student rooters will leave tomorrow...
This year Coach O'Donnell is returning with six of the team which started against the University last fall. Among these are included the three veteran halfbacks; Crowley, Riopel, and Glennon. The slippery field last year prevented Glennon from demonstrating his broken field running ability, but granting a dry gridiron on Saturday, the Holy Cross backers are convinced he will slip away for repeated long gains. Playing in a formation with Glennon back, Holy Cross has gained consistently all season, for the veteran halfback is a true triple threat since he passes and kicks with as great ability...
...chimera of infallibility has indelibly been sketched in printer's ink about the name of any one of the Big Three. The men are dubbed gridiron heroes, many as early as their preparatory school days, and immediately they cease to be mortal. Once deified in this way by sport writers, the chronicle of their doings becomes of far greater value...
...football players will know what it feels like to work behind the footlights, not on the stage but on the gridiron, when the electric lights the ready for use which have been placed around the main gridiron of Pratt Field in New Haven. The sporting world has heard of electric-lighted tennis courts and hockey rinks, but it was not until the electric light poles were placed around Yale's gridiron that playing football at night was introduced...