Word: gridironing
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...University football teams of the three years from 1896 to 1899. For several years after his graduation he was an assistant coach in charge of the kickers on the Crimson squad, and in 1907, after a particularly disastrous season, he assumed complete control of the University's gridiron destinies. During the next eight years the Crimson reached the pinnacle of its football glory under his skillful guidance. He produced teams which crushed the Blue five times and tamed the Tiger on four occasions. Under his regime, the University lost but once to Princeton and once to Yale...
...merely a producer of winning football machines, but a close and well loved friend and counselor. Although he appeared cold blooded and even cruel upon the football field, the real kindliness in his nature was always apparent when he was not concentrating his faculties upon gridiron success...
...Take him over to the sidelines, this is no field hospital.' A substitute sprinted on the gridiron and immediately play was resumed...
...Princeton quarreled in 1889 over questions of eligibility of players and ceased to play until 1895. In the latter year as well as in 1896 Harvard and Yale fell apart, over both eligibility rules and playing rules. In these two years Harvard and Princeton resumed relations upon the gridiron, Princeton winning in both years. And then again they ceased to play, the series being thus interrupted for fourteen years. During these long and barren years numerous college diplomatists, graduates and undergraduates, endeavored to reestablish the series, but in vain...
Eleven players wearing the Andover Blue for the first time this season will face the University Second team this afternoon on the schoolboys' gridiron. Coach Daley, the Andover mentor, is not expecting an easy afternoon with the Harvard seconds, but his objective game with Exeter is but two weeks distant and he can afford to take no chances with his first string men, so he is sending in a full team of substitutes...