Word: gridironing
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Through the sudden addition of Harvard to the football schedules of the University for 1934 and 1935, athletic authorities here have made a welcome extension of Princeton's fast-improving list of gridiron opponents, Apparently working with considerable speed and being invaluably aided by the courtesy of the Naval Academy in offering its Princeton date in 1934, the Harvard and Princeton officials have moved directly and simply to the logical way out of an extremely illogical impasse...
...experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where the competing teams have been conspicuously victorious, as in the case of Brown and Colgate's game at Providence on Thanksgiving Day and of Army and Notre Dame's meeting in New York today, public interest has lagged and grandstands have remained half filled...
...spent their week within the four walls of office or study. Even playful old ladies are susceptible to this dose of medicine that is football. Many a good derby has been crushed under their antics of new spirit. There is nothing more interesting than the milling mob on the gridiron at the close of a game. This whole process is one of mob spirit being ventilated...
Long before the inherent evils of the old system had been brought sharply to public attention, Penn State decided to set its football house in order. In a clean and drastic sweep that shocked the pigskin world, football scholarships were abandoned, coaches were appointed to be not only gridiron mentors but bona fide faculty members as well. A thorough stimulation was applied to intramural athletics, although the true value and position of intercollegiate competition was by no means underrated...
...telegram delivered late last night, with every indication that the signature is authentic, promises that Dr. Hu Flung Huey, famed prognosticator, will be on hand in Cambridge during the fall to predict results of college gridiron tilt and other sporting events. The Sage of the Age, whose services the CRIMSON was fortunate enough to secure when Joe Forecast married, has worried his way back from the war in China, and is steering an erratic course towards Cambridge...