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...wouldnt score three touchdowns or even get that much playing time until Saturdays game. But how he got back to success on the gridiron deserves more mention than dwelling on the accomplishment of 152 rushing yards and three touchdowns...
...game but never won. Growing up in Miami as a Dolphins fan, I watched the greatest quarterback of all time retire without a Super Bowl ring. And as a sportswriter for The Harvard Crimson, I’ve seen my fair share of important missed field goals on the gridiron and improbable basketball shots that have caused heartbreak on the hardcourt...
...Mississippi, to hear Eudora Welty read from her works was as prized as a pair of tickets to the state's Egg Bowl, the annual gridiron classic between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...
Katharine Graham took charge not only of herself, but also of Washington. She declined to speak at the all-male Gridiron Club. She refused to cede to the customary after-dinner conversational separation of men and women—and in her refusal, destroyed it. She entered boardrooms full of men and made them think that meeting with her could be normal, or maybe special...
...Boston University students had painted a crimson mustache on the statue of John Harvard and burned the letters "BU" into the Harvard Stadium gridiron. Harvard students had returned the favor with H's drawn all over the BU stadium...