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...less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity and Freshman units, nor the large decrease in Freshman football players when the "gridiron diminutives" were abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIGHT MAN'S BURDEN | 10/20/1933 | See Source »

...East Cambridge to give the readers of the CRIMSON the benefit of his astute wisdom by predicting the score. TIME OUT has warned him not to be as cautious and wary of the visitors' strength as he was last week. Harvard seems to be going places on the gridiron this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

...players have already been put through several tough scrimmages and Coach Cliff Gallagher has lined up a Team a recruited from schoolboy gridiron stars. Richard D. Pedrick seems to have the edge over the other quaiter backs in the signal calling post and teams up well with George S. Ford, Lee A. Faker, and Thomas H. Riledean to complete the first-string backfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN GRIDSTERS TO WORK TOWARD ANDOVER | 10/3/1933 | See Source »

...whole to introduce a rejuvenated college spirit into Dartmouth. After several poor seasons on the gridiron, the diamond and the track, and concurrent with the disillusionment and flight of hope that naturally accompanies a period of economic despair, the college felt that its life-blood was being sapped and its spirit was falling into the doldrums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Out of the Depths" | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

With an Astor, a Mellon, a Widener, a Baruch, a Pulitzer, two Du Ponts and many another notable, Franklin Roosevelt last week attended his first Gridiron Club dinner as President of the U. S. From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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