Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coach A.E. French '29 for the first workout. This is without doubt the largest number that has reported for Freshman football in the last number of years and is encouraging in that this year's class may atone for the showing of last year's Freshmen on the gridiron. After going through calisthenics and a short drill for the linemen and backs most of the Freshmen were sent in in order to be able to attend the first meeting of English...
...sense vicarious. He was No. 1 man of the company which owns the Suns, but he knew his professional limitations and left the conduct of the papers to trained hands. Yet he liked to be known as a newsman and was an attendant at dinners of Washington's Gridiron Club. A steady source of "copy" while alive, he became in death something nearly approaching the perfect news story...
...Gridiron Club dinner went President Hoover last week to watch Washington newsmen make fun of his policies, to see his Secretary of State at the London Naval Conference burlesqued as Alice in Wonderland, his National Republican Chairman consigned to political limbo, to hear John Philip Sousa lead the Marine band in a rousing new Sousa March dedicated to Britain's Royal Welch Fusiliers. It was this regiment which joined the U. S. Marines in lifting the Boxer siege of Tientsin (1900) and helping to rescue Herbert Hoover, engineer...
Rugby has so many desirable features that its tremendous popularity in England is readily understandable. Given a decent chance the British brand of football has easily come to share the spotlight with our own gridiron variety. If we must have over-emphasis on sport, it might be well to spread it around...
April 26?Annual spring dinner of the Gridiron Club; in Washington. Principal guest: President Hoover...