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Smaller and less swift than their varsity counterparts, House football competitors nonetheless adhere to all of the traditions of the gridiron from frenzied pre-game * to furious mid-field gang tackles...
Princeton's football team plays just well enough every year not to lose on the gridiron to a composedly stronger Harvard squad...
That's the way it used to be Yesterday, the Lowell Bellboys, perennial laughing stocks of the Straus Cup gridiron circuit, stuck it to Leverett House and the world, winning their first game in seven years...
...lines are well dug in on both sides. For the players, Garvey, the executive director of the N.F.L.P.A., argues that they are not proposing gridiron socialism as charged; they are trying to respond to a well-oiled socialist industry, unprecedented in American business. The N.F.L.'s new fiveyear, $2.1 billion television package, for example, is to be divided equally among its franchises. Whether Super Bowl winner or cellar inhabitant, whether smoothly or badly run, each team is to get the same $11.8 million share of this year's TV income. The result is a $600 million-a-year...
...schools humbled the Golden Eight on the gridiron, as the league compiled a collective 6-18 against non-Ivy opponents. Subtract Yale's 3-0 mark against outsiders, and the disgrace of it all becomes even more evident...