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...President Hoover attended the Washington Newsgatherers' Gridiron Club's spring dinner. To many such dinners had he been as Secretary of Commerce, to none before as President and chief butt of the merrymaking. He made a speech. Under the club's rules, it was not reported...
...years Coolidge economy was the prime raw material for the japes of Washington newsmen's famed Gridiron Club. Last week at the club's spring dinner, new material offered itself for roasting- Hoover Efficiency. From 7:30 p. m. to 12:30 a. m. the 50 active club members entertained the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, the Cabinet, foreign envoys and themselves with snappers, skits, topical songs. Burlesque, ridicule and sarcasm heaped upon the White House. President Hoover, who spoke, took all with great good grace...
According to A. W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics, the game is easy to learn. It consists of four ten-minute quarters and is played on a field of the same size as a regular gridiron...
Casey was one of the most prominent gridiron performers of his day, and as Freshman coach, he has had an unusually successful career, having lost but one contest during his three years in that position. His teams have been consistently victorious over Yale, and his only defeat came at the hands of Andover in the first game of the 1926 season...
...semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released if pre-season gridiron practice were relinquished would then be willing to participate in the minor sports...