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...activities will not continue. For three years, the gallant Forecast has battled grimly against the odds opposing him. His public has not gone unadvised. More than once he has been assisted from a Boston or Chelsea gutter bearing the marks of conflict. A week later his predictions have amazed gridiron thousands. There's no stopping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTING RING NAILS JOE IN ATTEMPT TO BLOCK RETURN | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

Both the quality and the quantity of the backfield material which is available for the coming football season are of such a nature as to lead Crimson supporters to hope for a successful year on the gridiron. Speed, experience, and stamina can all be found in abundance in the group of 11 men who, excluding quarterbacks, are now striving for berths in the Crimson jerseyed backfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

Receiving lines may receive, and advisers may advise, and Deans may be their own helpful, admonishing selves, but for the Freshman College dies not really begin until the football candidates are called out. This afternoon Coach Casey will meet his Freshman gridiron host at the Soldiers Field Looker Building. Over a hectic weekend Harvard has been giving the Freshmen plenty: now there is an opportunity for the Freshmen to give something to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN FOOTBALL | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...days and nights grow cooler in September, the gridiron absorbs the warmth of the waning sun. Rumors begin to sizzle, fat to drip off portly full-backs capering with pigskins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Kicks | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhinoceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months that I have been practically on the gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would perpetrate upon Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boulder Dam | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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