Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale and Princeton enter their gridiron battles this afternoon favorites, but neither are taking chances with their opponents. Yale is sending her strongest team on the field to quell the North Carolina attack...
Only in the case of the Greens triumph over Norwich at Hanover was the gridiron fight a close one. Dartmouth failed to score in the first half, but in the second session Dooley and Bjorkman each scored for the home team. This 14-0 margin is the smallest that the Green has won by over Norwich since 1907, when the latter was defeated...
...expected, much interest will attach to the football game in New York this afternoon between the reorganized Columbia eleven of Coach P. D. Haughton '99, and the team from Ursinus College. In this encounter the effects of the drill given the somewhat disorganized Columbia team by the former Crimson gridiron mentor will first be seen under actual fire. Much attention will also be paid to the question of whether or not he will use the same type of game as he employed so successfully while at the University...
...coincidence that two men whose play he helped direct on the Amherst gridiron 29 years ago, have public eminence comparable to his own, viz.: John P. Deering, who has been mentioned as " next Governor of Maine," and Herbert L. Pratt, President of the Standard...
President Harding is very evidently trying to do this. He has lined up the Administration on the World Court, but he has not yet taken the ball in his arms to try to run the length of the gridiron. He has too strongly fixed in his mind the experience of President Wilson, who, with the League of Nations, tried to parade down the field without recognizing that a football game was in progress. As result Mr. Wilson was thrown for a loss...