Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks from today Harvard football will enter upon a new era, when, for the first time in the Crimson's history, a non-graduate coach takes charge of gridiron activities at historic old Soldiers Field. For on September 16 Head Coach Dick Harlow, formerly of Western Maryland, will call the Varsity candidates out for their initial workout of the year...
...Henry Litchfield West, 75, oldtime Washington newsman, president of the Gridiron Club (1900), onetime Commissioner of the District of Columbia, all thanks for readable footnotes on Liberia...
...definite figures have been preferred by the Dean's office to indicate just what proportion of the 1935 gridiron outfit has profited by the new requirements, but the word of reputable authority would place the number at a round sum. The fact of no probation at midyears and the added grace of revised language and distribution requirements have all gone to help Coach Harlow's cause in building up a creditable Harvard football team next fall...
...Gridiron Club banquet at which 400 places were laid in honor of the Club's 50th Anniversary, the President, speaking at his best and off the record, endeared himself once more to his newshawk friends...
...Conant and Mr. Bingham, however, have thought the question through and have not been frightened to find themselves in new and untrod lands. For several years observers have doubted the efficacy of football receipts to maintain monumental athletic plants. Even a rise of twenty-five per cent in gridiron receipts would bring the H.A.A. income to less than half the 1929 figures. In addition to this, the rise of professional football, voted by the nation's sportswriters as the most significant event of 1934, tends to offset "recovery" in amateur football...