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...American football game and came away with the impression that whereas the British treat war as a sport, the Americans treat sports as a war. Since the Englishman had only been in this country for a short time and had seen only the surface emotions generated by the gridiron game, it is not surprising that he never arrived at the obvious conclusions that American football is neither sport nor war, but a business...
Perhaps when the gentlemen of the U. of P. and N.C.A.A. and the E.C.A.C. have succeeded in determining a price policy for the new gridiron industry, they will raise a glass to the memories of the days when football was a game, played for fun. If they are not shrewd and diligent, it will be a hollow gesture...
Harvard will today become the second Ivy League football team to enjoy the services of an "extra" head coach when Henry R. "Bob" Margarita, erstwhile gridiron boss at Georgetown, returns to Cambridge. Yale's Herman Hickman set the pattern a month ago when he appointed Forrest "Peahead" Walker, of Wake Forest, to the Eli staff...
...preceding Saturday the Crimson gridiron battalions had suffered a 46-0 rout at the hands of Army, a debacle so grave that solace could not be gained by writing it up, as Hitler's propagandists used to do with the German war reverses, as "a strategic retreat to prepared positions" or "an incredibly skillful disengagement from the enemy." This was 19 years...
Coach Jordan said that he had found the Harvard alumni most helpful in rebuilding Crimson football to its rightful position in the gridiron world...