Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall it would have been a dream team. For his College All-Star squad, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy had lined up such 1947 gridiron greats as Michigan's Bob Chappuis, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack and Mississippi's Chuck Conerly. In Chicago last week, before a crowd of 101,220, the collegians (most of whom would shortly be pros) kicked off against the Chicago Cardinals, 1947 pro champions of the National Football League...
Officers of the University will flood the Philadelphia meeting to bring graduates up to date on present Cambridge affairs. Academic matters will be in the fore, but Alumni will also hear Art Valpey discuss matters of the gridiron at the regular business session of the conference...
Maybe you just slipped the mothballs in the pockets of your coonskin coat and took a last glance at a rumpled Yale program, but the fact is that it's already time to be thinking of next season's gridiron tickets...
...fact, Senator J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Chairman, was wrathful. "This device will fool no one," he said. Harry Truman, however, did not feel so bad. He met Joe that night at the Gridiron Dinner and said to him: "You can have him, I don't want...
...once, but twice, he tootled off to the National Gallery of Art to inspect the famed collection of German paintings (see ART). With Mrs. Truman and Margaret, he took in the premiere of a new movie, State of the Union, at Loew's Capitol. He went to the Gridiron Club's spring dinner at the Statler, where he made a speech and sat through a couple of hours of heavy-handed lampoonery...