Word: gridironer
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...business-oriented women, they analyze why so few women have become top corporate executives. Their answer: most women never learned to play football or other team sports. For corporate men, whom the authors got to know as company consultants and teachers, life is one long battle on a metaphorical gridiron. Women who grow up in sex-stereotyped America playing tennis or figure-skating do not know how to plan ahead, take risks, deal easily with victory and defeat, play on a team...
...football analogy would be too easy. But it's tempting. Because yesterday afternoon at Northeastern, the Crimson batsmen engaged the latter in one of those annual baseball-turned-gridiron classics, with Harvard emerging the victor by two touchdowns and a field goal. But that's too easy now, don't you think...
Nitzkowski says he declined to pursue his career on the gridiron "because I was disillusioned with the whole football thing in high school. It was a degrading, dehumanizing experience, and I wanted a more low-key experience...
Here at Harvard there seems to be an adversary relationship between the sports press and athletic teams. When The Crimson buried the football squad in an early grave following its loss to Brown this year, many of the gridiron veterans were incensed. For athletes, seasons are measured not by championships but by something quite unquantifiable--a sense of accomplishment. As a member of the team I was not ready to pack in the season. But we all read the story; we were all hooked...
...heartstrings of most local fans are attached to the hockey scene. In New York City, on the other hand, the dominant sport is basketball. With the Big Town's college teams almost uniformly back on the winning track, it has become clear once again that success on the gridiron, diamond, or court can be the magical elixir for boosting an ebbing urban morale...