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...weeks hence, when the Crimson meets Princeton, it is possible that the local gridiron score will be something less than 65-7. But regardless of the football outcome, Cambridge sports fanciers will still have concrete reason for celebration. The hockey rink, overlong in fund-raising and planning stages, will be completed. There will be, of course, a dedication in a formal ceremony. But more important is the small meeting of H.A.A. officials who will dedicate the rink to specific purposes...
Johnson, who likes to wear $190 tailor-made suits and takes pride in his gold, diamond-studded cuff links shaped like the map of Texas, abhors formal dress. Recently, when he was dressing for the Gridiron Club dinner, he found to his horror that neither he nor his wife could get his white tie tied properly. In a typical Johnson solution, he telephoned his old Texas friend, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, and rushed two miles to Clark's home to have the Justice...
...NCAA last night voted to enlarge the number of colleges participating in its controlled gridiron television schedule, but did not release the names of the colleges to be covered...
...travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along the Way reaches its dramatic destination...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...