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Harlow, who feels it is too soon to comment on 1939 gridiron potentialities, said, "I have never been one to be optimistic or pessimistic. We are losing some awfully grand kids in this year's Senior class, and it will be a hardship to replace them...
...Executives White and Bitner, up went the star of Joe Connolly. Tom White kept his title but lost his authority, Harry Bitner lost both. Cherubic Joe Connolly became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, responsible directly to Judge Shearn. Photographed looking up at tall Joe Connolly at a Gridiron Club dinner (see cut, p. 49) stubby Clarence Shearn cracked: "That's just the way it is. I'm looking up and saying: 'Save us, Joe, save...
...wistful sigh they reflected that it would be nice if Princeton and every other college in the league had similar, standardized pools. If that were true, a team competing away from home would not be confronted with conditions as unfamiliar to them as a crater in a football gridiron would be to the pigskin-pushers...
Music by Ruby Newman, introductions by Heywood Broun '10, "schnozzle" by Durante, songs by Ethel Merman, and satire at the expense of Harvard will be part of the bill of fare at the first annual Gridiron Show and Ball of the Boston Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Statler, Thursday evening, January...
Athletic Director T. Nelson Metcalf--"The University of Chicago is systematically lightening its football schedule. This, I think, is the best solution to the problem of Chicago's consistent gridiron defeats. But if the University administration thinks that schedule in which the team plays smaller schools of their own athletic calibre is harmful to public relations, I do not look with disfavor upon the abolition of intercollegiate football...