Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news has yet been received from my venerable sire in China, whom false, malicious rumor has reported still fleeing before the Japanese invasion. But knowing his disciples' voracious eagerness for his veracious analyses of gridiron contests, I ventured to substitute myself in the great man's place and predict for tomorrow major clashes: Dartmouth 7 Stanford 0 Yale 20 Princeton 3 Notre Dame 19 Army...
...East's five major Thanksgiving Day gridiron battles starts tomorrow afternoon in the Stadium at 1.45 o'clock, when Boston College takes the field against a powerful and favored Holy Cross eleven. Tickets for the game, are being handled by the B. C. A. A. and by the II. A. A., which gave the use of the Stadium for the occasion. A crowd of 50,000 is expected, and a portion of the gate receipts will go to Mayor James M. Curley's unemployment fund...
Today stands out in the history of Harvard and Yale football as the occasion of the fiftieth gridiron contest between the two colleges. Since the first clash of the Magenia and the Blue in November, 1875, until the end of the Haughton era, the history of the Harvard-Yale rivalry has been essentially the history of football itself. These teams are responsible for many of the fundamental developments of the game and in their ranks were a host of players who are outstanding in football's Hall of Fame...
...same year Harvard transferred the scene of all its home games from Jarvis Field to Soldiers Field, the bitter feelings manifested between Harvard and Yale on the gridiron came to a head in a game characterized by unusual roughness and a large number of injuries. This resulted in a two-year break in football relations between the two colleges...
...regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies. In a current film, "Touchdown," the central figure is an ambitious young coach who cripples a player for life in order to win a game, and then, for the conventional happy ending in an unconventional form, loses his most important game to win his lady love...