The occasion didn't present itself that week, however, for Willard found that life on the football gridiron had suddenly become both real and earnest.
Three days of wretched weather added to the difficulties, for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were each cold and rainy, and by the last day the gridiron was not much better than a bog.
McNatt's room, while not on the end of the building overlooking the field, was near the corner and, by opening a window and leaning well out Willard could see all of the gridiron save the stretch of it close to the nearer stand.
Then came the athletic field, where several of the tennis courts were already in use, and Harmon heard tales of hard-fought battles on gridiron and diamond and track, battles that were invariably won by Alton.
Society rooms, studies, tennis courts were deserted, and the stands beside the gridiron were so filled that you would have thought the Big Game was in progress.
Alton Academy's registration was well over four hundred, as the catalogue later announced, and of that number nearly one-fourth reported on the gridiron as candidates for the school team.
I'd divide the gridiron into, say, ten zones longitudinally and three zones laterally, giving thirty areas in all.
Mr. Chadwick has played on the diamond and on the gridiron himself.
Then sprinkle them with Salt, and lay them upon the Gridiron over a small Charcoal-fire, to broil, till you perceive that side is enough, and before any moisture run out of them upon the fire.
Then lay the Steaks upon a Gridiron over a very quick fire (for herein consisteth the well doing) and when the fire hath pierced in a little on the one side, turn the other, before any juyce drop down through the Powder.
Chops are done in the same way, but the gridiron is turned twice at intervals of two minutes and six times at intervals of one minute.
It was from these stalwart gridiron gladiators that the caustic criticism of T.
The squad, over in the bunkhouse, noisily donned gridiron armor for the morning practice, and the pestiferous Hicks was maintaining a mysterious silence, somewhere.
Whatever we do against them, it must be something seldom heard of on the gridiron something that will be so brand new that they can't get by it.
But the eleven, mainly under Dick and under Dave's captaincy in two fierce gridiron battles, had gone right along winning games.
There are even "Gridiron Clubs"--clubs where guests are invited only to be put on the grill.
The Gridiron Club at Washington was founded on the same lines as the Clover Club in Philadelphia.
Put them, gills uppermost, on an oyster gridiron over a clear hot fire, turning them over as one side browns.
Wipe dry, broil on a butteredgridiron and serve with melted butter.
Thus they talked until Chet, knowing that Andy must want to get rest, in preparation for the gridiron battle, took his leave, promising to see his friend again.
This practice went on for several days, and then came other gridiron work, falling on the ball, punting and drop kicking.
Illustration] Mr. Chadwick has played on the diamond and on the gridiron himself.
Wouldn't he be fine covering the gridiron with the ball tucked under his arm?
Strip him, stretch him on the gridiron and stir the coals.
The corpse of Bezenecq the Rich was chained to the gridiron above the dying embers of the coal fire.
The bourgeois of Nantes turned around sharply and saw the heaped-up combustibles under the gridiron beginning to take fire.
The gridiron test will be enough, but stir the coals.
A sizeable grandstand flanked the gridiron and a smaller one stood behind the home-plate of the 'varsity diamond.
The work today was easy, consisting principally of signal drill in preparation for the game with Day and Robins's School on the morrow, and Ira was put in Basker's squad and trotted around the gridiron for a good half-hour.
On the practice gridiron the second team was playing Warne High School and, from the few brief glimpses Ira caught of the contest, getting beaten.
Of course, putting it that way he had to smile, for he couldn't imagine himself of any more use on the gridironthan nothing at all!
On the Parkinson side of the field the substitutes sat huddled in their sweaters and blankets on the bench or lay sprawled on the windrow of marsh hay that had covered the gridiron overnight and was now piled in the lee of the barrier.
That, having dressed, he did not return to the gridiron to watch his companions disport themselves shows that so far as football fever is concerned Ira was still free from contagion.
To the right of the courts was a quarter-mile running track enclosing the gridiron and beyond that were the baseball diamonds, three in number.
Fellows who usually nodded to him on campus or gridiron now fell into casual conversations, during which mention was generally made of the football meeting, if not of his share in it.
There was a gridiron in the pantry, on which my morning rasher of bacon was cooked.
There are those who would gladly roast you on a gridiron for what you are in politics.
Contrasting with these Continental types the English gridiron was strong and serviceable, and essentially a grid or grill, the smith putting his best work in the handle rather than the grid.
The gridiron or "griddle" was an appliance used extensively all over the Continent of Europe from the sixteenth century onward.
Its deck seemed a mammoth gridiron as Hildegarde looked down upon it--a gridiron whose cross-bars were battened hatches.
Nobody wants to know how many ribs a skeleton has, any more than how many bars a gridiron has, so long as the one can breathe, and the other broil; and still less, when the breath and the fire are both out.
It is absolutely indispensable, to retain certain flavours, that the fish should go from one element to another, out of the water into the fire, and onto the gridiron or into the frying pan as soon as possible.
The gridiron made Saint Lawrence fit for heaven, and its qualities have been elevating and refining ever since.
