Word: gridironed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daley was captain of his Freshman football team and has played on the University eleven for the past three years. Prevented each year from playing in the letter games due to Illness, he was nevertheless awarded his gridiron letter this season. He is President of the Student Council. Daley's vote of 350 was not only the greatest total vote, but also the greatest majority for First Marshal. Coady received 287 votes for the Second Marshal's position. He is Captain of the football team, a letter man in hockey and baseball, and a member of the Student Council...
Yesterday's session at the Arena was marked by the reporting of E. C. Clark '27, F. A. Clark '29, C. D. Coady '27, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, E. T. Putnam '29, and Isadore Zarakov '27, who so far have been excused from work on account of their gridiron activities this fall. Putnam was the star performer of last year's undefeated Freshman team, F. A. Clark was a substitute on that outfit, while the other four were members of the University squad. Hamlen was a regular in the forward line, Zarakov also saw considerable service in the offensive combination, while...
Athletic authorities at Yale have expressed emphatic disapproval of the agreement that fixes September 15 as the starting date for football training. These critics declare that the long list of injured players that hampered the development of the Blue gridiron machine was due to the brief period allowed for proper conditioning. It is felt that when such gruelling tests as the Dartmouth game come so early in the fall, a longer period of time should be allotted to get the players into fit condition to meet the ordeal of battle...
...First Corps of Cadets on Technology Field, Cambridge. At left half-back on the Battery A eleven was Madison Sayles '27, consistent ground-gainer and defensive back on the University team this fall. At left tackle was Brainard Taylor '26, another graduate of the Soldiers Field gridiron, who was on the University squad for two years...
...game. Many of the ablest and most discriminating advocates of football as a college sport argue that the gridiron game stands emphatically not for the prowess of the individual, but for the ability of the team, that the game is founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner...