Word: gridirons
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...reporter maintained Ford's friendship and the friendly coverage when he joined the Detroit News's Washington staff in 1957 and became bureau chief four years later. The friendship is good-humored. TerHorst helps write some of the better ditties crooned at Washington's annual Gridiron Club dinner, and one recent effort included this spoof of Gerald Ford's close ties to business, sung to the tune of America the Beautiful: "Oh beautiful for Tel and Tel . . . for Pontiac and Cadillac, and good ole Jerry Ford." TerHorst had written two-thirds of an unofficial Ford biography...
Szaro, who held Harvard's place kicking record for most points scored in a season until Bruce Tetirick '74 bettered his record during the '73 season, graced the Harvard gridiron in 1968-1970 with his soccer-style kicking...
Forget those ignorant New Jerseyans from Princeton and Rutgers who claim the first gridiron contest dates from 1869 when those two schools first clashed. Instead, the Harvard Athletic Department asserts that it was Harvard's 3-0 victory over McGill on May 14, 1874, that marked the Real beginning of modern football...
...join 'em, beat 'em, decided the Journalists for Professional Equality, a group of Washington reporters who banded together to protest the barring of women from membership in the capital's venerable press club, the Gridiron. In competition against that group's annual "roast" of politicians, the J.P.E. staged its own bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles...
Cloherty's beginning in journalism came when his collegiate athletic career turned sour. After winning a football scholarship to the University of Montana, he played for a year, but quit when he learned how his own and his teammates' free rides were funded. The athletic department was supplementing gridiron subsidies with government monies for work-study programs, and Cloherty launched a series in the Montana Kaimin, the campus daily, which ended in scandal, indictments, and two convictions...