[Ads-l] Antedating of "Gridiron" (Football)

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gridiron (OED, 3.e., 1896)

1891 Evening Herald (Shenendoah, Pa.) 26 Nov. 3/1 (GenealogyBank)

Unlike former Princeton teams, the present one is without a star performer, that hero of the gridiron.

Fred Shapiro

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