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...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...
...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...
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...