Word: gridironic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hennessey, who will play today, grabbed the bouncing kick-off on his own 15 yard line and sped untouched down the center of the gridiron for the Crusader's only tally...
Perhaps the day's headliner is the nationally-televised scrap between Notre Dame and Oklahoma, two ambitious teams anxious to regain some of the gridiron prestige they've lost the last two or three years...
...other big question was Kessler, who after captaining the freshmen, two years ago deserted the gridiron last season for hockey and lacrosse. Kessler stopped in when Southmayd broke his hand, however, and now seems to have the right guard spot nailed down...
...that fall--the sophomore year for the Class of 1937--that Harvard and Princeton smoothed over an eight-year breech in athletic relations, meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1926. Back in the 'twenties there had been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the Crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing...
...President's Gridiron Club speech is supposed to be off the record. But Washington's newswomen, who are excluded, do not consider themselves bound by the rule. Last week the Washington Post's Dorothy McCardle buttonholed the diners, found out what the President had said, and quoted him in the paper, thereby putting his speech on the public record...