Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NCAA last night voted to enlarge the number of colleges participating in its controlled gridiron television schedule, but did not release the names of the colleges to be covered...
...travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along the Way reaches its dramatic destination...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...
...Whole Man has returned to football. Now that substitutions have been strictly re-limited, industrialized specialization has left the gridiron and real sport has come back. Two-platooning may have enabled more men to participate in the game, but it certainly did not give more of them a chance to play football. Imagine baseball with separate hitting and fielding teams, and you get an exaggerated idea of what unlimited substitution was doing to football...
...little politicos buzzed into Washington for the big Gridiron dinner, Kansas Senator Frank Carlson, a trusted Eisenhower lieutenant, strolled inconspicuously into the office of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. Carlson wanted to talk about the problem of electing a Senate majority leader for the next session of Congress. Bridges restated his position: he wanted to be chairman of the Appropriations Committee; he did not want to be majority leader unless that was the only way to avoid an open fight between Bob Taft's friends and the Eisenhower people who seemed to like California's Bill...