Word: goalpost
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...INJURY Margaret M. Cimino '87 suffered when a goalpost fell on her head after Saturday's Yale game is a direct result of the business which is poisoning American sports. Cimino was hurt in the traditional tearning down the goalpost celebration after the game. But this "celebration" is not revelry--it is the winning fans' chance to participate in the violence they have been watching for the past three hours and humiliate the enemy even more. And it is when The Game--or any other game--means more than the contest of skill and strategy it was designed...
Following Harvard's victory over Yale in New Haven, Cimino joined a crowd swarming the field. She was struck by a torn-down goalpost and suffered traumatic, massive head injuries. Doctors deemed her situation critical, placed her on a respirator and fed her intravenously...
...Harvard freshman struck by a falling goalpost after Saturday's football game remains in critical condition at a New Haven hospital, but her physicians "are hopeful about her condition," a hospital spokesman said yesterday afternoon...
Reardon said that wooden goalposts were no more safe than metal ones, explaining that he had witnessed a death caused by a falling wooden goalpost...
...enjoy tearing down a goalpost as much as the next guy, and remember fondly the dismantling and the sinking in the Charles of the open end uprights at last year's Game. So, as the seconds ticked off late in the fourth quarter. I made my way down the stairs of Section 24 to the endzone. Egged on by healthy doses of rum and bourbon, I gradually let my sophomoric muse--so prized by aging and increasingly senile Yale and Harvard alums--take control...