Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the betting fraternity of New Jersey nor the urchins in the Square give Dick Harlow's gridiron machine much prospect when it rolls on Soldiers Field against Brown's polished 1947 eleven this afternoon at 2 o'clock before an estimated 15,000 fans. Judging from the gloomy record, the Crimson is not loaded for the kind of Bruin that invades Cambridge today looking for Brown's eighth win in 46 tries against Harvard...
...soft-spoken, easy-going veteran of three years of college ball and six of professional, who now lends his experience to the efforts of Wally Flynn, Walt Coulson, Tom Felt, and company, has seen exactly one Harvard gridiron contest--last year's Yale fracas--since joining Dick Harlow's coaching staff in the spring...
Even in the absence of last year's regulars Chip Gannon and Bill Brady, who will not report for court duty until after the Yale gridiron clash, the present 30-man squad has great advantages, both in speed and height, over the 1946-47 unit...
Pouncing on one of the few remaining rays of gridiron hope, Ernest I. Sly ocC yesterday disclosed the results of his revolutionary football rating system, which ranks the Crimson far above all the nation's other elevens...
...evening found Crimson adherents downcast gridiron wise, it also found them attending what conservative observes called the most extensive bacchanalia since last year's Yale game. The discouragement lasted through the first few hours, but after that nobody cared very much...