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...Bond was backfield coach for the first year teams from 1924 to 1929 under both the Casey and the French regimes. He was head coach of the Brown Freshman team this past season. His athletic career in college was interrupted by the war but he played on the 1916 gridiron team and caught on the 1919 baseball nine...
...Washington's K Street, Mr. Doherty as a modest house, known as the Doherty Club at which many a famed guest is entertained from midnight on after Gridiron Club dinners...
...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...
...played by such teams as Notre Dame; or they must frankly recognize that football skill, glory, strength, and prestige is no longer centralized in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and set about to engage in less elaborate and time-consuming seasons." From friction-plagued Pennsylvania comes the news that the gridiron captain is to be given far more power, the coach less. "Put the game in the hands of the undergraduates," advocates the Herald-Tribune. And in the Dartmouth, after the Stanford contest, is the pertinent query: granted that the trans-continental trek was good advertising, was it fair...
...successful three years as Freshman coach with the direct idea of grooming him for the head coaching position. His football days go back to 1910 when he played as a halfback and end on the Natick High School team. After that followed three years at Exeter and a successful gridiron career at Harvard, which was broken up by the war, but continued in 1919. After graduation Casey coached first at Mt. Union College in Alliance, Ohio and later came to Tufts, where he resigned after the 1925 season to become Harvard Freshman coach...