Word: gridiron
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It’s been three years since Harvard and Lehigh faced each other on the gridiron. But that doesn’t mean the last meeting between these teams has been forgotten...
Time marches, seniors graduate, and a new slate of games goes up across the river on Blodgett Pool’s brick façade. The reality of the new season, like the adjustment from gridiron to groupie, is rapidly dawning...
...Easier said than done, however. Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page of Super Bowl XI, now a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, and former Los Angeles Ram Fred Dryer of Super Bowl XIV, now an actor on the TV series Hunter, were not interested in re-creating their gridiron days. "I appealed to Dryer's sportsmanship and persuaded Page by telling him to pretend he was being photographed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame," says Golon...
...School has started teaching NFL players how to make money after the whistle blows on their gridiron days. Which means the College finally has a leg up on its across-the-River peers: After all, we’ve been teaching economics to dumb jocks for years...We can’t resist: Visiting lecturer—and the original gadfly—Elvis Mitchell flitted and flirted at Grafton Street last Saturday night at a pre-arranged after-party for a film screening held at the Law School. The dreadlocked one chilled out with a posse of students...
...U.S.F.L., which was formed in 1983 on the novel premise that action-starved gridiron fans would flock to see football in spring and summer, attempted to upset that arrangement. Led by New York Developer Donald Trump and other multimillionaires, the new league initially tossed around seven-figure salaries to lure players away from the N.F.L. As a result, the average N.F.L. salary has risen 58%, to $163,000, in the past two years. The N.F.L. Management Council warns that if paychecks keep rising at the present pace, the league could lose $87 million...