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...pushover remaining before The Game, thinking ahead could prove fatal.... The toast of Dunster House is Crimson tight end Bill McGlone, who caught a 29-yd. Brian Buckley touchdown pass last weekend. You see, no one could remember the last time a Dunster resident had even appeared on the gridiron, so the junior was widely hailed at the post-game "Zorbels" .... The Crimson's secret weapon this weekend may be Delta Air Lines. The gridders are flying to Philadelphia today, avoiding the eight-hour bus ride. This certainly will help their state-of-mind if not their play.... Look...
...while the boys in brown were scurrying with such success on the gridiron, every private school kid in New York City began dreaming of four years on the Providence River. And of bringing their unique life-style with them...
...Culver as well as his football helmet did when he was a fullback at Harvard. Now, after ten years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...
...33rd time (Harvard leads the series, 17-13-2), these two institutional heavyweights--and of late gridiron lightweights--go at each other today. The result may reveal little about the military-industrial complex but plenty about the futures of these two football teams. ARMY 28, HARVARD 24: The turf, the sell-out crowd and the Army offense should conspire to top the Crimson. But the Michie scoreboard should flicker plenty, and a couple of breaks could put this one Harvard...
Long, long before they decided to design the nation's capital city, the residents of Newtowne had come up with an idea that their city should be organized. Eliot, a former professor of Landscape Architecture and Plannig, says they designed a gridiron layout iwith a town center--a market place of sorts--where Winthrop Square stands today. Of the eight houses in the square, one was destined for Gov. Winthrop but it collapsed while under construction. Winthrop decided to stay in Boston...