Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles to the strokes of the 'Cliffe crewmen, the Harvard Male has been thirsting to assert his traditional superiority . . . in something. Yesterday an intrepid group of Bellboys shouldered the responsibility for vindicating College honor, and engaged a formidable aggregation of Amazonian field-hockeyers on the Browne and Nichols gridiron, with scattered support from Wellesley and some finishing school ringers...
Back in the days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven...
Battling through four bruising periods with neither team denting their opponent's 20-yard stripe, Eliot and Leverett wound up yesterday with a scoreless deadlock on the intramural gridiron. Meanwhile a rejuvenated Adams aggregation rolled over Winthrop House...
Pierce, who will parry questions about the team and its chances, is another in the list of standout gridiron performers who have been giving Network listeners inside information about Dick Harlow's charges. Last week, Jack Fisher and Vince Moravec were on the WHCN program...
Eliot's undefeated Elephants will face their first real gridiron test of the season this afternoon when they collide with the rapidly improving Leverett eleven in one of the two scheduled House games. Adams, with only a day of rest after holding a favored Dunster team to a 14 to 14 deadlock, will take the field against the Puritans of Winthrop...