Word: gridironic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight days after the disastrous Harvard-Yale game, Brian Dowling won a minor victory in Boston as the Gridiron Club named him winner of the annual George "Bulger" Lowe award as New England's outstanding college football player. Dowling will come back to Boston on Dec. 10 to receive the award at a banquet...
Harvard and Penn, two Cinderella football teams challenging for the Ivy League Championship, match their undefeated records today at Soldiers Field in the East's top gridiron attraction...
...many observers, rugby looks like disorganized football, but any Harvard rugger will vehemently protest that it is merely unencumbered. The game is played on a 100-yard field, wider than a football gridiron, and has goalposts at either end. Crossing the goal and touching the ball down, called a "try," is worth three points, and a conversion kick immediately afterwards counts for two. In addition, penalty kicks, which also count for three points, are awarded for certain infractions...
This regrettable lack of restraint was especially evident on the gridiron. Dunster and Lowell Houses, apparently trying to match Harvard's rout of Bucknell, scored 53 and 59 points against Winthrop and Kirkland Houses respectively. Biggest factor in the Lowell triumph was quarterback Joel Cantrick, who threw five scoring passes...
COACHES ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.). Top 60 college seniors of the 1967 season compete (East against West) on the Atlanta Stadium gridiron...