Word: goalpost
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Myron B. Fiering '55, Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics is studying the possibility of a "telescoping" goalpost which officials could lower into the ground at the end of a game...
...some way the goalpost would collapse like an auto antenna," Fiering said yesterday. But he added that the new goalpost would have to have some sort of locking device which would prevent it from collapsing at the wrong time...
...College goalie, Bob O'Connor, having flopped to the ice, looks behind him, where the puck and teammate Paul Hammer are both in the net. And O'Neil, a freshman winger, skating past the goal a little too late, is about to smash his stick in frustration across the goalpost. The picture ran on the cover of the Beanpot program the next year...
...Eliot House junior has begun an effort to encourage all Harvard undergraduates to sign a Christmas message to Margaret M. Cimino '87, who was injured by a falling goalpost at the 100th Harvard-Yale game...
Officials at both schools, planning logistics for subsequent Games, should begin with efforts to change the powerful mindset of the crowd. Announcements every quarter of the danger of pulling down posts could be followed by some combination of beefed-up security or changes in goalpost construction. Some school facilities have goalposts that cannot be overturned or posts too light to be dangerous. If the schools decide that keeping fans off the field is essential, they could even resort to the moats and chain-link fences of other pro sports...