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...best newspaper account of the Yale-Princeton game of 1911 reads as follows: "A sensational, spectacular run of 65 yards by 'Sammy' White, Princeton's hero end, who picked up a fumbled ball out of the quagmire gridiron, won the football game for the Tigers against Yale this afternoon. It was the first time Princeton has beaten Yale since 1903. The score...
...announcement of the Brown-Dartmouth lapse in gridiron relations starting next fall has been supplemented by the Boston newspapers with much speculation and ballyhoo concerning the 1929 Harvard coaching situation. Mr. Bingham's concise statement calms the troubled waters and points to the logical solution of whatever problems exist...
Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at the point of recovery, when recovered by the defensive team...
...speaker of honor at the dinner last night, Coach Horween stated that there had never been in his mind any question of wanting to return as head coach of the Harvard gridiron forces; it was mainly a question of whether he could come back. "The warm reception which has been accorded me here this evening has more than answered my doubts," he said. Speaking of the past three years as mentor, he continued. "I have attempted to build up and firmly establish a system based on a principle of attack. The team has been sent onto the field with...
Members of the Gridiron Club are, nonetheless, reporters. They entertain their distinguished dinner guests (politicians, diplomats, businessmen) with horseplay...