gridiron
Example Sentences
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What’s even stranger about their absence from national relevance on the gridiron is that the Ivy League essentially invented big-time college football.
His speed, toughness and athleticism made him dominant on the gridiron.
From Seattle Times
That system prevailed until 1905, when 18 fatalities on the college gridiron provoked President Theodore Roosevelt to force Harvard, Yale and Princeton to codify rules aimed at protecting players from injury.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, a year later, it was the itinerant Raiders heading to Las Vegas, the eye patch on their gridiron bandit logo obscuring an apparently wandering eye.
From New York Times
OJ Simpson - the gridiron legend-turned-film star, whose subsequent arrest and acquittal on murder charges transfixed the world - was another of those to gather around the microphone with the players.
From BBC
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