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...convince them that rescheduling the contest from a 1:30 p.m. start the previous Saturday made eminent sense. Penn State finally disposed of Pitt (31-10) by midnight, but the glut of games did not end till Sunday right after a staggering total of 30 commercial-crammed hours of gridiron TV. (Some of the commercials were ordered up by network-paid stage managers, who signaled game officials when they wanted a break in the action.) Burnishing the already well-polished dictum that more is better, the networks figured they were giving their viewers precisely what they wanted. Or were they...
...accolades came on the heels of announcements that McInally had captured two other awards, the outstanding player of New England award from the Boston Gridiron Club, and the senior player of the year award from the New England football writers and coaches...
Once a year Washington's Gridiron Club justifies its existence by roasting the pretensions and perquisites of politicians at a lampoon dinner. For the other 364 days, the group of columnists, bureau chiefs and other journalistic elders acts like any other hidebound institution. Among the most staunchly defended traditions: a membership limit of 50; women need not apply...
...male-only clause in the club's 89-year-old constitution has come under increasing attack. This year, for instance, a "counter-Gridiron" party was held that attracted many of the celebrities who had previously attended the orthodox bash. Now, with the solemnity of king penguins about to bathe en masse in public, the Gridiron has yielded-sort of. The word "persons" has been substituted for "men" in the charter, and membership will expand to 60 over the next five years. Does that mean ten women members by 1980? Not necessarily. Any candidate for admission may still be blackballed...
...sixth in the nation in pass receptions, having caught 41 through the first eight games of Harvard's 1974 schedule. The All-American candidate holds a majority of the Crimson receiving records, and is undeniably one of the major reasons that Harvard has won 13 of its last 17 gridiron encounters...