Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's 1942 gridiron campaign opens with an explosion of fireworks this afternoon when an inexperienced Crimson eleven crashes head-on into Lt. Commdr. Jimmy Crowley's squad of seasoned and hardened football experts. Recruited from All-American and professional ranks, the North Carolina pre-flight school has gathered together a talent-laden powerful aggregation which, on paper, looks to be well out of the class of any college team...
...fact, anything that smacks of the briney deep. Then, if enough show up, they will serenade the Army men in uniform who have seats with songs like the "Caisson Song." From there, they will move over in front of the Harvard stands, and will introduce new Freshman to Crimson gridiron tunes...
...humor rag have made themselves famous by such pranks as the removal of the "sacred cod" from the House of Representatives in the State House at Boston, and the purloining of the Yale fence, which has served for countless years as a backdrop for the pictures of all Eli gridiron captains...
...went to the University of Georgia for his law degree, got himself elected president of 1) his class, 2) his legal fraternity, 3) the interfraternity council, 4) the student body, 5) the campus Gridiron Club. He graduated at the top of his class, practiced law just long enough to get his political bearings, then ran for the Georgia House against five opponents who managed to scrape up 232 votes among them...
...Annapolis he had been fullback on the football team, and the midshipmen had given him the nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an air of amused disinterest, but he wore on his blouse the gold star of the distinguished cadet, was graduated twelfth in his class...