Word: gridironing
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...under the new Fisher-Daly regime was continued in the new Stadium practice field yesterday, the workout being held only in the afternoon. Morning practice is a thing of the past, as single sessions are scheduled for today and tomorrow, and next week will bring scholastic engagements to the gridiron men, precluding double-time drill...
...always wanted to get an exact transcript of the parting words of a head coach to his men or his subsequent speech between the halves. I do know one but it was delivered to the squad of a comparatively small college. Just before the North Carolina eleven took the gridiron against Harvard their coach said to his players, "I want you boys to remember that every man on the Harvard team is a Republican...
...down by them in the form we know it today. In its present form the game offers opportunity for 12 men to play on a side, a large number for a sport providing such stiff competition. It is played usually on a field about the size of a football gridiron, or to be exact, 110 yards long by 70 yards wine. Goals are placed at either end of the field into which the ball must be thrown in order to score. Each goal counts one point...
Open practice for University football graduates will be one of the novelties of next fall's gridiron season, Coach Fisher announced at the annual dinner of the Varsity Club in the Union last night. Coach Fisher said, "I am convinced that it will be an excellent thing both for the coaches and the players of the present to come into closer contact with the football men of the past...
...practical to undergo this training! When they graduate from the university, they need only open their months and roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...