Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncovered in the official gridiron rules book, the shift occured after the singer's publicized remark that "All over the country men are wolves; only in Boston do they behave like lambs...
Presumably gridiron candidates, like soldiers, execute their push-up more constructively when they are guided by an expert. And presumably William J. Bingham '16 will emerge from his southern hideaway long enough to appoint a calisthenics director...
...associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate the increasingly lonely standards of the Athletic Association with respectable standards on the gridiron...
Thus ended the 35-year football career of one of the nation's most widely acclaimed gridiron tactician, a career which began as a player for Pennsylvania State in 1913, led first to a coaching job at College (1921-25), thence to the position of football mentor and athletic director at Western Maryland (1925-34), and finally to Harvard...
Blue-Gray Game (Sat. 2:45 p.m., Mutual). North v. South on the gridiron, at Grampton Bowl, Montgomery...