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• In a 1897 football game, Georgia was playing the University of Virginia. During a pile-up, a player named Von Gammon ended up on the bottom and was found unconscious. He died of a brain concussion. As a result, the Georgia team disbanded. Protests against the brutality of football spread. A bill was introduced to the Georgia state legislature to ban football from the state. It passed and was sent to the governor for his signature. It looked like football was doomed. But then a woman came forward. She wrote a letter to the governor, pleading with him not to use Von Gammon’s death as an excuse to outlaw a good game. Because of this letter, the Governor refused to sign the bill into law. Football was saved. The woman who had written such an effective letter was Von Gammon’s own mother. • In 1905 there were 18 football deaths in the nation. The violence of the game diminished somewhat when the forward pass was invented, cutting down on the confrontations. (Cont’d next page)
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FOOTBALL (cont’d) • In 1890 the Naval Academy in Annapolis challenged the Army institution of West Point to a game, but West Point had no team. A cadet named Dennis Michie accepted that challenge and set about drumming up a team. However, Michie’s father was an officer at West Point and felt that football was a pathetic game. He told his son to quit the project. Dennis Michie defied his father, and three weeks later 300 spectators watched the first ArmyNavy game in history. The inexperienced Army team lost 24 to 0. Not even Dennis Michie’s father could swallow such a defeat. He ordered his son to do better next year and beat the pants off the Navy. Today the football stadium at West Point is named after Dennis Michie, founder of the Army-Navy rivalry.
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• When the Nomads were up against Knute Rockne’s Notre Dame, Rockne could not understand why so many of his players were suddenly breaking their ribs. Player after player was hauled out of the game on a stretcher and the team doctor admitted that perfectly normal ribs were breaking like kite sticks. Rockne got suspicious and found that the Nomads were wearing steel knee braces. Rockne hit the roof while the Nomad coach feigned ignorance. “Guess they didn’t want to hurt their knees,” he said. From then on a new rule was on the books that made it illegal for any player to wear steel knee braces. • On October 7, 1916, the powerful Georgia Tech team invited little Cumberland College to play on Tech’s field. Cumberland did not have a regular team, but they rounded up some guys. The game didn’t go well for Cumberland, and later fullback A.L. Macdonald recalled making “our longest gain of the day when I lost 5 yards.” One Cumberland player is said to have fumbled the ball and yelled at a teammate to pick it up. But with five big Georgia Tech guys bearing down on him, he yelled back, “You pick it up! You dropped it!” The game was called in the third quarter and the final score was Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland 0. • Quarterback Harry Adams was playing for Montana in a game against Washington State in 1920. He had a badly injured ankle but insisted on playing anyway. When a punt went over his head, he limped along to retrieve it, but by the time he picked it up he was flanked by two very large Washington ends who were running at him full tilt getting ready to tackle him. “Don’t hit him, he’s hurt!” yelled one of the ends. At that point both players very carefully picked Adams up and gently laid him on his back on the field. (Cont'd next page)
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• During a game between Clemson & Mercer, a referee turned to Clemson’s halfback, Streak Lawton, and said: “Streak, this is the last game of the season and you have just 60 seconds left to make history.” On the next play, Mercer punted, and Lawton returned the punt 90 yards for a touchdown. As he walked past the referee, Lawton was heard to ask, “What are the other 40 seconds for?” • Coach Fielding Yost was giving his team an intense pep-talk during half time, whipping the team into a fury. “All right men!” he hollered. “Follow me to victory!” He yanked open a door to the locker room and ran out. But he had pulled open the wrong door. He plunged headfirst into the swimming pool, followed by the entire team. In their heavy football gear, several of the players nearly drowned before they were pulled out. • Joe Namath was listening to a lecture by coach Bear Bryant, who was goading them to do well in their college classes because there was more to life than football and he didn’t want any dumbbells on his team. “If there is a dumbbell in the room, I wish he would stand up,” Bear said. Namath immediately stood up. “How come you’re standing up? You ain’t dumb,” asked Bear. “Coach,” replied Namath, “I just hate like the devil for you to be standing up there by yourself.” • Coach Knute Rockne would often drill his players by setting up imaginary situations and grilling them about what they would do next if caught in such a position. One day he said, “It’s our ball, fourth quarter, we’re behind by three points, ball on our 45-yard line, fourth down, three to go— what do you do?” He asked a third-string quarterback. “Well, Mr. Rockne,” replied the bench-warmer, “I’d slide a few yards down on the bench to get a better look at the next play.”
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-- The Mediterranean diet has been in the news for years, but some of us aren’t sure if it offers any real benefits. Now we have a piece of the puzzle. In a recent study supported by the National Institutes of Health, participants experienced less brain atrophy after adhering to that type of diet, resulting in loss of fewer brain cells and maintaining cognition. The Mediterranean-type diet (called MeDi in researcher parlance), consists of low intake of dairy, poultry, meat and alcohol, and higher intake of fruit, fish, cereal, vegetables and fats that are monounsaturated (such as olive oil). A few specifics: Eating less meat resulted in larger total brain volume. “NATIONAL” WORDS (continued): Eating more fish was associated with • French: Chefs know what it means to greater cortical thickness. Based “french” a food item. It’s a verb that on means these, researchers concluded that to cut into thin strips, like, well, french fries. even these two diet (And yes, that’s how adjustments the finger-friendly potatoa positive dish took benefit its name.) beans had as Green part of the are another item commonly prepared in this Mediterranean diet. The difference in manner. two groups (those who adhered to a •Mediterranean Maltese: These diet tiny versus spanielsthose are easy whoto identify thanks to their long, silky coats. The didn’t) was the same as aging five American Kennel Club groups years. brain volume was 13 them The withaverage other “Toy percent larger, is significant. Dogs” like Pugs which and Terriers. Yorkshire This isn’t the first time the Feline to aficionados benefits the brain have been studied. usea similar the termstudy concluded that Inalso 2010, Maltese to describe thecats Mediterranean diet can help avoid that have a sidamage the grayparts of the brain that milarly to silky, deal bluewith coat.thinking and memory. Those who adhered to the were 36 percent • Colombian: This termdiet means different things less topeople, have damage. to likely different depending Those on howwho you get your “jones.” Narcotics dealers generally stuck to the diet weremay 21refer to theirless products as Colombian, although the percent likely. actual source is often unknown. Luckily, the Ask your medical provider majority of us prefer a bit of legal Colomwhether should these types bian, as you in the coffeeadd grown in the South of American foods to your stay away nation.diet Theand prevalence of coffee from thethroughout more harmful Forenough shops Americaones. is proof that information, many of us justsearch can’t get alongfor in the more online morning without a hot cup of Colombian. “Mediterranean diet,” and look for sites •byChinese: TheClinic, genericthe term “chinese” Heart now the Mayo American represents types of food that are very differAssociation and WebMD as places to ent from the meals that are (or ever were) start. served in China. That said, the same argu(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• In the early days of the 1800s, trade was just beginning to open up between Japan and America. Most American trade ships docked in the port of Yokohama. The city had one main street that was well-policed at night, and it was called Honcho-dori Street. It was the only safe thoroughfare in town; sailors caught in the city after dark trying to return to their ship through twisting alleys and convoluted byways were far more likely to be robbed, beaten and murdered. Therefore men being granted shore leave were warned never to wander through Yokohama at night, and to stick to the main route of Honchodori street, where they could be assured that everything would be “hunky-dori” which is how the phrase came into English. • The French “hoche” means “a shaking.” Add that to the word “pot” and you have “a shaking together in a pot.” “Hotch-pot” became the word for a stew and led to our “hodgepodge” meaning a jumbled assortment. • In Middle English “habben” meant to have; and “ne habben” meant to have not. “Habben, ne habben” was eventually abbreviated to “hobnob.”
• In Massachusetts in 1812, Governor Elbridge Gerry pressured the legislature to re-district the state to insure his victory in the next election. A team of men re-drew the voting boundaries to include any pockets they could find of Elbridge supporters. One voting district in Essex County looked like a dragon. Someone looking at a map of the new district mentioned that it looked like a salamander. A bystander said a better name would be Gerrymander, after the Governor. And that’s how “gerrymander” came to mean tampering with something to make it advantageous to yourself.
• Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1296. In every town that was overtaken, he would force the local politicians to sign a document pledging support to the King. The generic term for any official document written on a scroll was “ragman roll.” Officials made public readings of the long boring ragman rolls, where people got tired of listening to what we now call “rigamarole.”
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• During the days of knights in shining armor, a “buckler” was a small shield used to defend oneself from the blows of an adversary’s sword. “Swash” meant the same thing as the word “swish” today: the sound that a sword cutting through the air might make. Therefore a “swashbuckler” was a man who made a great show of fencing, by swashing his sword and striking his opponent’s buckler. • In John Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost” written in 1667, the city of Pandemonium is the capital of hell. Pandemonium is coined from the terms “pan” meaning “all” and “daimon” meaning demons: the city of All Demons. • “Lady Gunhilda” was the name bestowed upon a large catapult that protected Windsor Castle in 14th century England. Eventually the weapon’s name was shortened to “Lady Gun” and then to simply “Gun” which then became a word that denoted any catapult, or any weapon that would hurl things such as bullets: a gun. • What does a catacomb have to do with a cat or a comb? Nothing. The word is from the Greek “kata” meaning down, and “kumbe” meaning hollow. • The Latin word “supra” means over and “saltus” means jump. “Suprasaltus” passed through Spanish, French and Old English before becoming our somersault.
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