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Carefully polishing their bright white shoes, nattily adjusting their deep blue ties, Yale-men occasionally take a jaunt to the Bowl on Saturday afternoons to watch Levi and his cohorts romp through their paces. But as for gridiron activities in the outlying provinces, they know precious little. Witness the card received from a Boy in Blue by a local undergraduate. It is printed verbatim...
Leverett House secured a firmer held on its second-place berth in the intramural gridiron loop yesterday, setting back a hapless eleven from Winthrop House 9 to 0, with its fifth shutout in as many starts...
...families visited relatives in Oklahoma City, Kalispell, Mont. or St. Joseph, Mo. Ladies Aid societies, Jolly Hour Clubs, bridge and church groups met and "partook of bounteous refreshments." There was pheasant hunting on the fields of the Middle West. Thousands of high-school football teams "clashed at the local gridiron." There were Halloween parties, golden weddings, marriages, christenings...
...since the days of the Four Horsemen has Old Man Money run so rampant on the nation's football gridirons. As the turnstiles click out the greatest attendance record in history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh...
Today's same is the first gridiron contest ever played by the two college, although Rutgers started this whole business in 1874, when it met Princeton...