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BROWN-Rhode Island--Most of the Brown student body is up bright and early on a Saturday morning, anxious to hurry over for good seats at Aldrich-Dexter Field. Unfortunately for gridiron players, the soccer team plays at that field. There's no soccer game this morning, so before the freshman class and the Brown band, which gets credit for being there, the Bruins begin a rebuilding year. Brown is always rebuilding, and they usually rebuild to the tune of two victories. This is one of them...
Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the Ali-Frazier championship fight that prompted an excess of macho in Washington. The news trickled out that during the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an evening of ritual satire offered by the capital's newsmen, House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, 57, was decked with one punch in a Statler-Hilton men's room by Indiana Republican (and former Congressman) Edward Mitchell, 60, supposedly because he objected to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration...
Although Johnson asserts himself well on the gridiron, he feels his real abilities lie in track. "There are football players and there are those who play football." he said. "I consider myself one of the latter. Track is my first love...
...William Barry Wood Jr. '32, who died in Cambridge Tuesday, was a gridiron hero of that heyday of Harvard football. Old football heroes are a dime a dozen, but the accomplishments of Dr. Wood deserve special notice...
...League were bidding for blue-chip college players in an annual conflict known as the professional-football draft. Once a relatively simple affair, the draft has become an increasingly complex struggle involving months of research, computer readouts, secret deals and more triple reverses than are ever seen on the gridiron...