Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of pure style, the oldtimer whom Brown most resembles is the legendary Johnny Blood, whose real name is John McNally, and whose pro career spanned 15 seasons between 1925 and 1939, when writers could still get away with calling a football field a gridiron. McNally played for the Green Bay Packers and coached the Pittsburgh Steelers; now in his 60s, he spends his time "meditating," and Captain Ahab of Moby Dick is one of his favorite subjects. "Ahab," explains McNally, "had the courage of ignorance, comparable to the courage of a fullback playing his first season of professional football...
...band changed its formation from "sex" to "libido," the announcer would note, "Freud would have remarked that some at the game sublimate their instincts by kicking and throwing a ball, while others direct their energies to other ends." Then the band would race euphorically around the gridiron to form the word "Lolita" and would play "Thank Heaven for Little Girls...
Those schools known as the Ivy League have long held the gridiron to be a masculine domain. Stout-hearted lads with long horns and strong drink can and have provided all the cheer the serious university needs. There is certainly no total exclusion of women. They are permitted to sit in the stands. But if they are allowed to gambol on the field of play who is to stop them from participating in the very contests themselves? Are we to countenance the sight of the finest products of our young ladies' seminaries, helmeted, and padded, raging at each other like...
This is the most difficult game of the week to predict. Columbia, as anyone who was in the Stadium last week has observed, is no gridiron juggernaut. Yale has scored exactly nine points in three games...
...almost instantly by modern communications. Visits are fine to get a personal appraisal of a man, but they take a disproportionate time on the schedule of the world's busiest executive. In this spirit, Johnson has also been cutting back on appearances before domestic groups; he skipped the Gridiron dinner and the conventions of newspaper editors and publishers this year...