Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...football team in the country, but things weren't always so good down in Athens. This Southern breed of Bulldogs got its name because the school's first president was a Yalie, and, like its northern counterpart in New Haven, once had to face a Harvard squad on the gridiron. The result: On October 15, 1921, Harvard came away with...
...this one Saturday a year, two universities known more for their academic than gridiron prowess admit to each other that they care about football--and at least for that afternoon--care deeply. Few future careers will be made or broken today, many will come to their natural and intended conclusions; that's part of The Game's charm. It lives on as a great institution not because the thousands of individuals who will gather today at Harvard Stadium--and the thousands of individuals who would like to be here--have been told that this football game means something, but because...
...pushover remaining before The Game, thinking ahead could prove fatal.... The toast of Dunster House is Crimson tight end Bill McGlone, who caught a 29-yd. Brian Buckley touchdown pass last weekend. You see, no one could remember the last time a Dunster resident had even appeared on the gridiron, so the junior was widely hailed at the post-game "Zorbels" .... The Crimson's secret weapon this weekend may be Delta Air Lines. The gridders are flying to Philadelphia today, avoiding the eight-hour bus ride. This certainly will help their state-of-mind if not their play.... Look...
...while the boys in brown were scurrying with such success on the gridiron, every private school kid in New York City began dreaming of four years on the Providence River. And of bringing their unique life-style with them...
...Culver as well as his football helmet did when he was a fullback at Harvard. Now, after ten years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...