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...canvassed the state for moral support as well as program advertising. Local gentility encouraged but the potential box-office patrons remained contemptuous. The first rehearsal was held last fall. In order to allay suspicion such more popular numbers as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Peer Gynt," and Sousa's "Gridiron Club March" were promised...
Many an amateur athlete is so only in name. He prefers huge expense accounts to a salary. West Virginia Wesleyan was forced to curtail football because it was learned that players there were receiving financial inducement to represent her on the gridiron. And now it is proposed that Lawrence High School should reward its athletes with scholarships...
Last week at their annual winter dinner and "frolic," they, the members of the Gridiron Club of Washington, D. C., newsgatherers all, found fresh sources for fresh fun. The President, the Vice President, most of the Cabinet, many of the Senate, many of the House and a sprinkling of foreign diplomats took their seats, to be suddenly startled by the furious ringing of bells. A messenger entered bearing an alarm clock which he said was for Vice President Dawes. The messenger was rebuked for reviving an old source of embarrassment to Mr. Dawes . . . the nap he took when his presence...
Sayles, the newly elected chairman of the committee, was vice-president of his Junior Class and has played three years on the University football eleven; Haggerty is Captain of the 1927 track team; Ellison is leader of the hockey team; Kilgour has played three years with the University gridiron squad; Lundell is chairman of the social service, committee of the Phillips Brooks House, and a track man: Robinson, played end on the football team and Hitch is president of the Glee Club...
...college spirit counts in football. The sense of solidarity with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams to Bill Roper, it explains why Princeton has that...