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...lawyer of a Harvard freshman who sustained a massive head injury when struck by a falling goalpost at the Harvard-Yale football game in November announced plans last week to include action against Yale University and individual members of the New Haven Police Department in a $50 million lawsuit against the city of News Haven...
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...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the governing body of collegiate athletics, will have to approve any new goalpost design, committee members said. Fiering noted that there are no regulations specifying the design of goalposts, except for rules governing the height of the crossbar above the ground...
...problem with the current goalpost structure is that "a student can crawl out onto the crossbar and create a large torque," said Frederick H. Abernathy, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering...