Word: gridironing
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...chimera of infallibility has indelibly been sketched in printer's ink about the name of any one of the Big Three. The men are dubbed gridiron heroes, many as early as their preparatory school days, and immediately they cease to be mortal. Once deified in this way by sport writers, the chronicle of their doings becomes of far greater value...
...football players will know what it feels like to work behind the footlights, not on the stage but on the gridiron, when the electric lights the ready for use which have been placed around the main gridiron of Pratt Field in New Haven. The sporting world has heard of electric-lighted tennis courts and hockey rinks, but it was not until the electric light poles were placed around Yale's gridiron that playing football at night was introduced...
Yale and Princeton enter their gridiron battles this afternoon favorites, but neither are taking chances with their opponents. Yale is sending her strongest team on the field to quell the North Carolina attack...
Only in the case of the Greens triumph over Norwich at Hanover was the gridiron fight a close one. Dartmouth failed to score in the first half, but in the second session Dooley and Bjorkman each scored for the home team. This 14-0 margin is the smallest that the Green has won by over Norwich since 1907, when the latter was defeated...
...expected, much interest will attach to the football game in New York this afternoon between the reorganized Columbia eleven of Coach P. D. Haughton '99, and the team from Ursinus College. In this encounter the effects of the drill given the somewhat disorganized Columbia team by the former Crimson gridiron mentor will first be seen under actual fire. Much attention will also be paid to the question of whether or not he will use the same type of game as he employed so successfully while at the University...