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Gridiron Football Rules
Gridiron may refer to: Sports and games * Gridiron, the playing field for gridiron football * ''Gridiron'' (card game), a football-themed collectible card game * '' GridIron Master'', a board game Organizations * Gridiron (secret society), at the University of Georgia * Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA * The Gridiron Club (Oxford University), an undergraduate club founded in 1884 Arts and entertainment * ''Gridiron'' (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel * Captain Grid-Iron, a ''G.I. Joe'' character * Grid Iron Theatre Company, in Scotland Other uses * Gridiron (cooking) A gridiron is a metal :wikt:grate, grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling foods. Some designs involve two such grates hinged to fold together, securely holding food while grilling over an open flame. Development Early examples of ..., a type of grill * Gridiron, Sonora, a steamboat landing in Mexico * Gridiron plan, in urban planning * Gridiro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron Football
Gridiron football ( ),"Gridiron football" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved October 20, 2010. also known as North American football, or in North America as simply football, is a family of team sports derived from (and football, by extension) primarily played in the and . |
Gridiron (card Game)
''Gridiron Fantasy Football'' is a discontinued football-themed collectible card game (CCG) first published in August 1995 by Upper Deck. Game overview ''Gridiron'' simulates a football game that takes place in a dystopian "near-future", and features a violent and over-the-top backstory comparing the new style of the game to Roman gladiator combat. Each player uses a 60-card deck, primarily composed of Plays and Actions, which are further divided into Offense and Defense, along with Team cards, which encompass Star Players at various positions, Coaches, Franchises, Traditions and Formations that provide additional benefits. The goal is to be the player with the most points at the end of the game, which consists of a predetermined number of "drives", and opponents take turns playing offense and defense while attempting to score touchdowns and field goals without losing possession of the ball. The actual gameplay closely follows traditional football, requiring the offensive pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GridIron Master
''GridIron Master'' is a wooden board game invented by Brett Proud, Craig Proud, Paul Morin and Jordan Sampson. It was first published by Canadian company ''PHI Sports Games'' in 2007. It combines the strategic elements of gridiron football ( American and Canadian football) with chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran .... The Canadian Edition of ''GridIron Master'' is licensed by the Canadian Football League Players' Association (CFLPA). Information The ''GridIron Master'' board is a scale model of a real football field ( American football field and Canadian football field). It is a combination of the skill and strategy of football and chess that is for ages ten and up. As of 2013, the average price for both the American and Canadian versions of the game is about $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron (secret Society)
Gridiron Secret Society is a collegiate secret society at the University of Georgia. Membership in Gridiron has been called "the highest honor a male student may receive on the University of Georgia campus." History The Gridiron Secret Society was founded in 1908 at the University of Georgia. The organization is thought to have connections with certain structures and historic sites around the State of Georgia and the rest of the Southern United States ( Warm Springs, Georgia Guidestones, Georgia Capitol building), but its members do not publish any information. The organization is believed to be associated with other secret organizations, which operate around the world under different names including Yale University's Skull and Bones Skull and Bones (also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death) is an undergraduate senior Secret society#Colleges and universities, secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior-cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron Club
The Gridiron Club is the oldest and most selective journalistic organization in Washington, D.C. History :"an elitist social club of sixty print journalists" — Hedrick Smith, ''Power Game: How Washington Works'' February 1988 Random House Frank A. De Puy (1854–1927) was one of several who met January 24, 1885, at the Welcker's Hotel in Washington, D.C. – 721 15th Street, N.W., between New York Avenue and H Street – to form the Gridiron Club. De Puy was the last surviving founder of the club. Its 65 active members represent major newspapers, news services, news magazines, and broadcast networks. Membership is by invitation only and was historically almost exclusive to prominent newspaper men, including newspaper Washington bureau chiefs. For most of its history, the Club bylaws excluded women from becoming members or even guests at its annual dinner. Although the National Press Club began admitting women in 1971, the Gridiron was reluctant to follow suit. Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gridiron Club (Oxford University)
The Gridiron Club, popularly called The Grid, is a dining club open to male and female students at the University of Oxford. History The club was founded in 1884 and, as with other beefsteak clubs of the 18th and 19th centuries, the traditional grilling gridiron is the club's symbol, which appears on the club tie (white gridirons on an Oxford blue field). Notable former members of the club include John le Carré, Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, Lord Michael Pratt (a former Secretary of the Grid), David Cameron (President of the Grid 1987–1988), Boris Johnson, George Osborne and Jacob Rees-Mogg. Sports journalist Sally Jones and Lord Salisbury's daughter Lady Georgiana Campbell both gained notoriety by separately standing for election to the then all-male club (Lady Georgiana famously doing so in male clothing). References have been made to the Gridiron Club in many works, including Evelyn Waugh's '' Brideshead Revisited'', Compton MacKenzie's '' Sinister St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron (novel)
''Gridiron'' is a science fiction novel written by British author Philip Kerr. It is a story about a highly technical building (nicknamed The Gridiron), which becomes self-aware and tries to kill everyone inside, confusing real life with a video game. Plot summary Ray Richardson and his top team of architects have developed a super-smart building for Yue-Kong Yu's business, the Yu Corporation. It is very much self-standing. It can clean itself, uses holograms as greeters in the reception, controls the lifts, toilets, and offices, and digitizes everyone's voice on entry, to allow them to use voice activated services in the building such as lifts and doors. The whole system was given the name Abraham. Another key feature of Abraham was its ability to replicate itself, to adapt to modern office needs and objectives. This, however becomes a problem, when, before office work even starts in the Gridiron, Abraham start creating a new program named Isaac. This is deleted by computer p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Grid-Iron
This is an alphabetical list of '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' characters who are members of the G.I. Joe Team. For Cobra characters, see '' List of Cobra characters''. Ace Ace is the G.I. Joe Team's original fighter pilot. His real name is Brad J. Armbruster, and his rank is Air Force captain O-3. Ace was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His primary military specialty is fixed wing pilot, and his secondary military specialty is intelligence operations. He spent time flying pipelines and flying stunt planes for films before enlisting in the United States Air Force, and later transferred to the G.I. Joe team. Prior to joining the Joes, he worked as a senior instructor for the USAF Fighter Weapons Squadron " Aggressors" (pilot combat training school). Ace was released in 1983 packaged with the "Sky Striker" fighter jet. A new figure was released as part of the 1992 "Battle Copters" line, with his name changed to "Wendall Armbruster". The figure was repainted and release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grid Iron Theatre Company
Grid Iron Theatre Company is a Scottish theatre company, one of the world's leading specialists in site-specific theatre although they also produce for the stage. Over the 27 years the company has won 31 awards and another 20 nominations across all aspects of their work, including six awards in the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland. As a renowned specialist in site-specific theatre, the company performs in a wide variety of venues which have included a cancer hospital in Jordan, land and air-side at Edinburgh Airport, a former morgue in Cork, Mary King's Close in 1997 before it was opened up as a tourist attraction, the venue which is now run during the Fringe as The Underbelly, Edinburgh Zoo, The London Dungeon, parks, gardens, playgrounds and fields all over Britain and Ireland. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company created a documentary film about the preparations of what was to be an outdoor production in Gifford Community Woods in East Lothian, based on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron (cooking)
A gridiron is a metal :wikt:grate, grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling foods. Some designs involve two such grates hinged to fold together, securely holding food while grilling over an open flame. Development Early examples of the gridiron were found in Pompeii. The Latin term is ''craticula'', a diminutive form of "crates". This referred to their cross-hatched design, which appeared similar to a wicker basket, or crate. This is also used as the base for the word ''wikt:graticule, graticule'', passing through French. In Mishnaic Hebrew, used by Jews in the 2nd-century CE, the word for gridiron is ''eskalah'' (), a word borrowed from , with a slight corruption in pronunciation. Skewer, Skewers with meat could be laid over the gridiron, or else meat laid directly over the gridiron. Manufacture in US There were numerous iron gridirons manufactured and patented in the U.S. in the 1800s. These iron legged devices were used in a fireplace placed over the fire to cook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron, Sonora
Gridiron was a steamboat landing and woodyard on the lower Colorado River in Sonora state of northwestern Mexico,. It supplied fuel wood to heat the steam boilers of the shipping steamboats on the Colorado River from 1854 to the late 1870s. Geography Gridiron was located above Port Famine, and below Ogden's Landing.Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, p.167 Gridiron lay along the east bank of the river below what is now the Sonora/Mexico—Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort .../U.S. border. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron Plan
In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at Angle#Types of angles, right angles to each other, forming a wikt:grid, grid. Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogonal geometry, facilitate movement. The geometry helps with orientation and wayfinding and its frequent intersections with the choice and directness of route to desired destinations. In ancient Rome, the grid plan method of land measurement was called centuriation. The grid plan dates from antiquity and originated in multiple cultures; some of the earliest planned cities were built using grid plans in the Indian subcontinent. History Ancient grid plans By 2600 BC, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, major cities of the Indus Valley civilization, were built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets, running north–south and east–west. Each block was subdivided by small lanes. The cities and monasteries of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
