Word: gridironing
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...Willard Hotel one evening last week rode President Roosevelt to sit with Cabinet members, Senators, newspapermen, miscellaneous bigwigs, hear his New Deal joshed at the semi-annual stag dinner of the Gridiron Club. Far more interested was Washington in the doings of 500 official and newspaper women left behind. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited them to a masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant...
...Cornell alma mater, to be sung by the bandsmen, accompanied by a trombone choir; "Harvardiana," and "Soldiers Field," with vocal; "Wintergreen for President"; "On Brave Old Army Team," and "West Point Alma Mater," the latter sung by the chorus; "Soldier Medley," as played at the Army Game this fall; "Gridiron King," and "Our Director"; "Yale Medley," as played in the Yale Bowl this fall; and "Fair Harvard," sung by the bandsmen...
...only missed one point after touchdown in 31 tries this season. But the majority of able professionals, like Detroit's Earl ("Dutch") Clark, who has scored 73 points this season, Philadelphia's Swede Hanson and Detroit's Glenn Presnell, were unknown nationally until they took to the gridiron for money...
Although it has been the tendency of the public to look upon the loud-mouthed Huey's escapades as opera bouffe, and to snicker at his elevation of Abe Mickal, star of the gridiron to the rank of state senator, the ousting of the college students is somewhat less laughable...
With today's game the A.A. plan ends its first year of trial. From the standpoint of gridiron success, the scheme is certainly not subject to serious criticism. Furthermore, we have no evidence to believe that the new coaches have introduced into Yale football any out-and-out commercial elements. From every standpoint, in fact, the new system seems to have achieved a reasonable degree of success, and after a year of operation its chances for permanent success seems bright. But if it should fail, Yale would do best to sell the Bowl as a curiosity and forget all about...