Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington newsmen, peace finally declared itself last week. Slicked up in white ties & tails, they trooped with 500 bigwig guests (most of the hosts brought their bosses) into the swank Statler Hotel. There they revived a 60-year-old tradition, lapsed for four wartime years: the famed Gridiron Club dinners...
When the Crimson and the Bulldogs get going tomorrow afternoon they'll be playing the sixty-second content of one of the oldest college football series in America--one that began in 1875, only three years after Yale, first of the two teams to get onto the gridiron, donned its tasseled caps and canvas jackets for its football debut...
Some critics point to this penalty score as proof that Army plays dirty football. Those who have been through the grinder have made no such charge. Army's coach, Colonel Earl ("Red") Blaik, who believes there are more suitable places for pussyfooting than a gridiron, denies the charge and offers movies of their games as evidence that his Cadets keep within the slam-bang limits of big-time football...
...David Schine '49, leader and drum major of the University band, Sunday night confirmed rumors that his musicians would not only be out on the Yale gridiron on December 1, but would be in New York the night before to serenade the Harvard club there. Schine stated that he would probably take 60 men with him on the Eli excursion. He also announced that he had secured enough accommodations for that number at the Astor Hotel in New York...
...after a year of coaching at Dartmouth, Brown is coming back to plague the Crimson once more. This time he is bringing a powerful gridiron squad from the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy with him; the call of war finally caught up with him and drafted him into the coaching job at the Long Island base...