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When a team of individuals loses five of its most promising members through injuries, the outlook cannot possibly be good. This is the situation that Skip Stahley's Freshman eleven finds itself in as it prepares to face a powerful Worcester Academy this Saturday on the schoolboys' gridiron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED '43 TEAM FACES WORCESTER | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

Skirling out of Iowa's tall corn fields, University of Iowa students have formed one of the most unique student musical organization in the U. S. Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piping Kilties Thrill Grid Fans | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...light but long workout constituted football practice yesterday afternoon for Bates' gridiron warriors as they speeded preparations to open Harvard's season this Saturday in Cambridge. No injuries were reported after the Bates opener last Saturday, and a full squad will descend upon Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bates is Ready for Crimson | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...Whitey's success in the field of propaganda doesn't stop with the gridiron. Why, it was Whitey who landed Dartmouth on the front page of all the nation's papers with the story of Heavenly Gates, the quarterback who left the pig-skin for a religious retreat...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...Freshman gridiron candidates, 100 strong, were outfitted today in Dillon Field House and pranced through their opening paces before Head Coach Skip Stahley and Coaches Latta McCray, Bill Rawls, and Dave Colwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 GRID CANDIDATES TURN OUT 100 STRONG | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

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