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...Ground Rule. To prevent undignified extra-gridiron scrambling for stray balls, during which spectators and players have so often been injured, the Committee held that in future the playing area will be identical with the chalked gridiron itself. Once a fumbled ball crosses either sideline, it will be considered dead and shall belong to the team whose player last touched it within the area of play...
...thought of what one had paid to get there, because it made of the event something more than just a big show, even for the non-alumnus. But this increase throws finance into one's face and makes it necessary for a certain percentage of regular attendants of our gridiron meetings to include the cost in the yearly budget so to speak. Undoubtedly many will decide that they cannot afford the luxury, which is probably what the committees hope for because of the large over-application for tickets durig the past few years. But these loyal individuals want to attend...
...Freshman team, has won every bout this season by a fall. Perhaps the most interesting bout of the meet from the standpoint of outsiders is that scheduled between C. H. Bradford '26 and Allen are well known as football rivals who played prominent roles in the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle last fall. Bradford, captain of the University wrestlers has been one of the mainstays of the team for the last three years. Allen on the other hand has never wrestled before this year, but his record so far has been impressive. He won from Meislahn of Princeton, who defeated captain...
...like the family jewels," and this almost transcendental athletic episode. "The second quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
Starting with five men who answered the initial call for gridiron aspirants at Trinity last fall, Coach Clark built up a squad which ranged between 15 and 20 players throughout the season. With this meager material the new mentor produced a well coached and capable eleven which won its most important games, those with Wesleyan and Norwich. The latter contest was won by a 10 to 9 score after the losers had downed the Tufts team by a 14 to 0 margin. The win over Norwich was well merited and the high spot in the Trinity season...