Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the University bucked up against last fall when it played Valparaiso, the western invader of 1920. Valparaiso was a "mystery" team about which the Crimson strategists knew comparatively little. Indiana is not. And unless Coach Steihm has pulled the wool completely over the eyes of this year's gridiron followers, his team this afternoon will display a conservative brand of football with trick plays and forwards reserved for a last-minute score-at-any-cost emergency...
Rainy weather kept the University football men off the Stadium gridiron for all but a few minutes yesterday afternoon. Coach Fisher held his usual after-ter-game blackboard talk in the Locker Building, pointing out the general defects shown Saturday against Holy Cross. Later on the 18 players who took part in the game were given individual criticism by the various members of the Crimson coaching staff...
...Harvard Not Impressive in Gridiron Opener" was the comment of the Boston Herald after last Saturday's double-header. On the other hand come rosy reports from Worcester about the big purple eleven, all of whom played against Harvard last year, reports of punters who can reach seventy yards, of powerful vetern linesmen...
...appearance of three University coaches on the 1925 field yesterday was the first proof of the fact that the directors of Crimson football intend to make the liaison between the University and Freshman teams more complete this year than ever before. Other University gridiron specialists are expected to give time next week to Coach Campbell's squad...
Coach Campbell gave his 1925 squad a short but stiff workout yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field in the third day of Freshman football practice. Eight more men reported, swelling the total of players to 136 and making the squad unquestionably the largest that has ever come out for Freshman gridiron work...