Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel like the Manchester airport, only here all the participants were eager to demonstrate that they weren't one-dimensional power mongers but soft under their designer suits. Maybe that's why women can still joke about male body parts, while if men discoursed about hooters at the Gridiron Club, they'd be hung--in the anatomically correct...
...Florida Gators. TIME's Steve Wulf weighs in with his prediction: "It will be a great game," Wulf says. "But I am going with Florida. It will come down to coaching, and Florida's Steve Spurrier is simply the best coach in college ball." Northwestern, a perennial loser and gridiron embarassment, has been resurrected and finds itself going to the Rose Bowl (against USC) ranked number three in the nation. "Northwestern is one of the best sports stories of the year," says Wulf. "They have shown that a school can have a winning football team and not sacrifice good academics...
When the Providence Gridiron Club held its annual awards at the end of the season, Cozza, as guest speaker, told the audience he was going to give me a bottle of champagne, after it passed through his kidneys...
Precisely 100 years ago, there actually was no contest on the gridiron between the two arch-rivals. A bitter dispute over a violent 1894 matchup caused a two-year feud that prevented the 20th and 21st Games from going forward...
...Connecticut this year, students from both schools will inevitably imbibe alcoholic beverages, taunt their supposed archrivals, and pull for their teams in a gridiron matchup that ultimately concerns little more than pride...