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...Hardwicks and the Mahans", the two divisions of the Harvard Spring football squad will play the second game of their abbreviated practice season this afternoon when they mingie on the Soldiers Field gridiron at three o'clock. The two teams played last Friday and the Hardwicks emerged the victor...
Died. Walter Herbert Eckersall, 46. famed onetime (1903-06) University of Chicago halfback, sports writer, football referee; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Footballer Eckersall in his days of gridiron fame never weighed more than 145 pounds. In 1903 when Chicago beat Wisconsin 15-6, he made all of Chicago's points with field goals. Dying, he mumbled something about a 20-yard gain...
...there is even a possibility that a Lowell House crew may row a Dunster House boat this spring. The scheduling of the class team football games with Yale next fall for the first week in November, as is being considered, would make possible two weeks of inter-House gridiron competition before the close of the season...
...accepting a Washington invitation, of avoiding all official functions. For all his surface affability Chief Justice Taft observed much the same caution in his daily contacts. He shunned Society and it was only last year that he relaxed his stand against the world to the point of attending a Gridiron dinner (TIME, April...
Furthermore, barring Seniors from participation in athletics would rob many a man of his banner year on the gridiron, rink, or diamond. Scholastic duties reach their peak in the Senior year of a man's college career but a student should then also be at his peak of maturity. If a man has not learned by his Senior year how to divide his time between sports and studies the chances are he never will...