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...Stadium, first Big Time football edifice ever built was completed in 1904, and was long known--in its original form as "The Classic Gridiron," or more familiarly, "The Allston Horseshoe...
Television rooms throughout the University were jammed as a few die-hards tried to prolong the football season by watching six hours of varied gridiron activity. For those who found the Army-Navy game dull, the Notre Dame-Southern California match provided three hours of good ball...
Reporting that game, the New York Times's Allison Danzig called Kazmaier's performance "one of the greatest passing exhibitions ever seen on any gridiron since the introduction of the pass in 1906." The Herald Tribune decided that "Princeton's all-around operations on offense and defense and Dick Kazmaier's transcendent solo deeds against Cornell were the peak performances, team and individual, of a football coach's lifetime." Cornell's veteran coach, Lefty James, said simply, with the disarming candor of the defeated: "The greatest back I've ever seen...
...constantly referred to as the "collitch kid" and the well-read foreman began to rib O'Neil for his part in Crimson football fortunes. The boss finally decided that gridiron reversal contributed to making O'Neil a poor worker, so he made a threat...
...youth in Cincinnati, Stargel was working after school as a stock boy in a pawn shop and doing quite well. But in the fall of his sophomore year, he was faced with the choice of giving up his pawn shop job to play football or foregoing the gridiron...