Word: gridironic
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...turning out powerhouse after powerhouse and All-America after All-America, it is impossible for us to compete with teams which are bidding on the open market every spring and then geting results on the gridiron the next fall. Taxas A. & M., Georgia Tech, Boston College, and even our old friends Penn and Cornell are playing a different sort of football from ours. They are going after their wins Yawkey style. One year out of five we may be able to equal their squads, guard for guard and back for back, but in the other four years any contest with...
Harvard football is based on the assumption that there are still a few deluded young men in this country who want to be capable athletes and scholars alike. They even prefer gaining an education to gaining yardage on the gridiron. Naturally, every preference in admissions should be given to the scholar-athlete. If a man has both high marks and a good athletic record in high school, be is the perfect type of raw material for both the Harvard football coaches and the professors. The scholar-athlete is the best type of man not because he can help Harvard...
...Donald Peddie '41, of Minnesota, will bring his twangy mid-Western accent to the gridiron this fall as head cheerleader for the football games. High point of his performance will be the ride aboard the Army mule, which the fans should gopher...
Harvard's "A" team looked more like a well-oiled gridiron machine yesterday afternoon than it has any other time this year, but joy in the Crimson football camp was shortlived. Burgy Ayres joined the long list of casualties, and the extent of his injury is as yet undetermined...
...downpour forced the football squad indoors yesterday afternoon for the first time this fall, but Coach Harlow did not let the rain interfere with scheduled practice plans. He drove his men through a full two hours of assorted gridiron chores, topped off by a 30 minute scrimmage...