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Wilkinson, White & Crew won't be in the mood for any crazy college hijinks from the Big Green today. So Harvard will try to confine its antics to the gridiron, where the squad goes up against a team that always plays well in this traditional rivalry...
Ludicrous scores like that were not uncommon in the early years of the Harvard gridiron, when the Crimson used to routinely pad its record against much weaker opponents...
Saturday's Harvard-Columbia gridiron showdown will mark the 10th straight year the two squads have met in the season opener. The Crimson has won eight of the previous nine, including six in a row, and is 9-2 all-time in opening-day games against Columbia...
...more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later reported "HOBEY" BAKER, STAR OF GRIDIRON, IS NOW AN AMERICAN "ACE," no one was surprised. The astonishment came in France about a month after the shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier...
...Yale's 108th gridiron captain, football is like a class and each game like a problem set. You are taught, you learn, you practice and then you are tested...