Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adition to increased gridiron activity, a full touch football league is planned, while cross country and track events will be also good for the three required credits per week. The status of tennis is still undecided, since the new courts on Soldiers Field are as yet incomplete, but Samborski expressed doubt early this week as to whether the playing surfaces would be ready...
Thrown off stride by the Praying Colonels from Kentucky, Coach Fisher's forces next journeyed to Princeton where the Tigers punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...
Familiar red-coated figures on the fall gridiron, the bandsmen will provide music for the processional and ceremonies in Tercentenary Theater on June 5, and will take part in the parade to the Yale baseball game on June 4 as part of the Class Day festivities...
Ferdy (The Bull) Nadherny of gridiron and basketball fame heads a list of long ball hitters among the Eli yearlings. In commenting on Crimson prospects, Coach Mee Berg said yesterday, "We got lots of men on base but we have trouble getting them in." Berg plans to throw his ace lefthander John Hansen into the fray tomorrow, while standing pat on the rest of the lineup...
...this year is Bill Swiacki, present catcher and a standout end with the football team. Rounding out the starting battery, Coach Andy Coakley will send Tellef Tellefson to the mound. His squad is strengthened by four members of last year's team, and is further colored by several gridiron greats left over from the fall...