Word: gridironic
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...immortal Harvard gridiron greats, Coach Percy Haughton '99 and halfback Eddie Mahan '16, were elected Saturday to the Football Hall of Fame at Rutgers University...
Haughton, one of America's greatest punters as an undergraduate ushered in the Crimson's gridiron golden age when he became head coach in 1908. His teams, in the stretch from 1908 to 1916, won 71 of their 83 contests, while losing only seven and tying five. An undefeated string of 33 games and five unbeaten seasons are the highlights in his record...
Almost all of the persons polled claim that they take a very great interest in the college gridiron sport. Last year, they attended between two and three games on the average...
...citadel of American education, however, will not be so lax in examining him as an athlete. An exhaustive perusal of his gridiron pedigree ensues, under the guidance of Lloyd Jordan, who, Mr. Bender notwithstanding, seems to be our new director of admissions. In addition, we have such nauseating stunts as entertaining entire prep school football teams at one of our Saturday afternoon flascos, a device calculated to lure scholar-athletes by evoking their feelings of pity...
...quite strong teams of Villanova and Northwestern and the mediocre team of Dartmouth. The black shirts and the gold helmets have been the same, but the eight yearlings, 24 sophomore, seven juniors, and nine seniors inside of them are not, and never have been, associated with the gridiron class of Davis, Blanchard, Galiffa, and Blaik...