Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard band of 116 pieces will take the field in the Yale bowl tomorrow led by baton-twirling Stuart H. Cowen '42. Coming on the gridiron the band will play "The Harvard Graduate School March," a new song by the band's conductor James W. Bolt, Jr. 3Dn. Between halves, besides going through several intricate formations, the group will entertain the crowd with "Harvard, Good Night," "Wintergreen," "Our Director," and "Fair Harvard...
...famous Sally Rand or naked reverse has been resting peacefully deep down in Dick Harlow's bag of gridiron tricks ever since Torbie Macdonald's graduation. It hasn't even been run off in practice once this year. But Charley Spreyer remembered the play and called it on the Brown five-yard line Saturday. Harvard had been storming over the Brown left tackle several times in a row, and this next play started the same way. This time, however, Spreyer handed the ball to Frannie Lee, who whirled around the Brown right end and into the end zone unmolested...
...Varsity squad was forced indoors for the second day in a row and put in a full 2 1/2 hours on regulation gridiron chores. Actual contact work was limited to line scrimmage, and Brown plays again occupied the spotlight...
Minneapolis, Dallas, and Palo Alto are the gridiron capitals of the nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...
...sleeper pulled out of South Station at 12:45 o'clock last night containing 31 Crimson gridiron performers and an entourage of coaches, trainers and managers. The train is due to arrive in Philadelphia at 10:15 this morning, and the squad will be hustled out to get a look at Franklin Field, the scone of Saturday's battle...