Word: gridironed
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...modern football are not totally unfounded. When football reaches the stage where it is simply a demonstration of how much the rival coaches know, it ceases to be a sport; it is a trade. In a game where two opponents merely direct their respective machines the frequently used term "Gridiron Battle" assumes a grim reality of meaning. Individual initiative on the part of the players is no longer desirable, but on the contrary positively dangerous: it might interfere with the coach's plan...
...case last year, rowing led as the most popular activity with 169 men participating, while tennis was second with 124. Coach Campbell's record football squad of 113 men took third place, outstripping by 43 last year's turnout of gridiron...
...scene is usually some college club in the city--a big room full of smoke and graduates. At one end is a score-board and miniature gridiron, along which a colored counter is moved as the telegraph behind the board clicks off the plays hot from the real gridiron. There is also an announcer, who, by way of clarifying the message depicted on the board, reads the wrong telegram in a loud, clear tone...
...estimated that 50,000 filed into the Palmer Stadium to-day to watch Yale and Princeton in their annual gridiron contest," he reads. "Yale took the field at five minutes of 2, and was greeted by salvos and applause and cheering from the Yale section. A minute later the Princeton team appeared, and this was a signal for the Princeton cohorts to rise as one man and give vent to their famous 'Undertaker's Song...
...smaller cities, where only a few are gathered together to hear the results, things are not done on such an elaborate scale. The dummy gridiron and the dummy announcer are done away with and the ten or a dozen rooters cluster about the news ticker, most of them with the intention of watching for just a few minutes and then going home or back to the office. And they always wait for just one more play, shifting from one foot to the other, until the game is over...