Word: gridironed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at the point of recovery, when recovered by the defensive team...
...speaker of honor at the dinner last night, Coach Horween stated that there had never been in his mind any question of wanting to return as head coach of the Harvard gridiron forces; it was mainly a question of whether he could come back. "The warm reception which has been accorded me here this evening has more than answered my doubts," he said. Speaking of the past three years as mentor, he continued. "I have attempted to build up and firmly establish a system based on a principle of attack. The team has been sent onto the field with...
...world famed Gridiron festival in Washington, D. C., at which newsmen had fun with political bigwigs...
...William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
Members of the Gridiron Club are, nonetheless, reporters. They entertain their distinguished dinner guests (politicians, diplomats, businessmen) with horseplay...