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...women in white must be taking lessons from their gridiron counterparts, as on Saturday the Radcliffe tennis team opened their fall season with a little shellacking of their own over a hapless team from Bates...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thal, Olney Pace 'Cliffe Past Bates In Tennis Opener | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Carter was never a star athlete, but he shares the competitive instincts that Ford honed on the gridiron at the University of Michigan. In less positive ways, too, there are similarities. Both candidates can also be quite stubborn when they have decided on a political course of action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CANDIDATES: THE FORD-CARTER CHARACTER TEST | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...weren't too pleased with the script ABC gave us," Crimson head coach Joe Restic commented yesterday. Normally, Restic's crew finishes its pre-game drills at 1:20, returns to Dillon Field House for some last minute instructions before retaking the gridiron...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Harvard's Win Is as Easy as ABC | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

Duck Hunting. Jones, beginning his fourth year in the pros, is now a seasoned gridiron thinker, as well as an accurate passer, who was once described as "football's Sandy Koufax." Last year he rated fourth among N.F.L. quarterbacks in total offense, leading the league in quarterback rushing with 321 yds. He completed 59% of his passes, breaking the Colts' record held by Johnny Unitas. Jones, 25, has but one eccentricity: growing a beard during the season-not to shave it off for the cameras a la Namath, but to camouflage his face for duck hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On to the Ball | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Post-season accolades are still coming in for Harvard's Ivy gridiron champion Captain Dan Jiggetts, recently named to the third team All-American unit, has been selected as first-team offensive tackle on the Associated Press 1975 All-East football team...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: A.P. Tabs Jiggetts To All-East Team | 12/5/1975 | See Source »

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