Word: goalpost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue has arisen in the wake of an incident at last year's Harvard-Yale game at New Haven, where a Harvard freshman was struck and seriously injured by a falling goalpost after the game...
...years ago, Whitley recalls, she had a spate of potentially serious injuries, including one when she dove into a goalpost and required four stitches, and several minor concussions...
...Building goalposts "like Fort Knox," with materials strong enough to support as many people as could climb on them, Fiering said. However, using goalposts that strong "would mean bringing in a crane every time a goalpost was to be moved or altered," Fiering added...
...Installing wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left Cimino partially paralyzed on her right side...
...YORK--"The Star-Spangled Banner" wafted through the new stadium at Baker Field to signal the beginning of the Harvard-Columbia football game Saturday afternoon. At the same time, a breeze off the Hudson River slowly ruffled the Ivy League schools' flags, arranged in a row behind the north goalpost. One by one the banners stirred, until finally all of them, and the American flag, were visible to the 10,500 people in the stands...