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It’s a special Halloween edition of Around the Ivies for the countless Ancient Eight football fans who’ll be dressing up as superheroes or vampires or zoo animals or Pokemon characters and trolling for candy this week. On the gridiron, costumes won’t fool fans any longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from...
...baseline of cognitive abilities, memory and motor skills against which they can compare scores after a head injury. The league also added a concussion hotline that players can anonymously call if coaches are forcing them to play against medical advice. Such measures won't prevent catastrophic injuries on the gridiron, but they may help to keep them to a minimum...
...crisp, fall Sunday afternoon. The weekend's chores are done and Monday morning is still hours away. You settle into the sofa, click the remote, and sit back to enjoy an NFL match on one of the major networks. But instead of three hours of gridiron bliss, you get a second-rate 1950s musical. While for American football fans this scenario is, these days, just a Heidi Bowl nightmare, for bullfighting aficionados across Spain it's suddenly a bad dream coming true. This summer, for the first time in its 51-year history, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation...
...before he was allowed to cover Mass. Hall, Halberstam applied his reportorial skills to less-glamorous assignments. He covered freshman baseball and intramural basketball before working his way up to varsity football. He quickly developed a distinctive style, and he wasn’t afraid to excoriate the Harvard gridiron squad for sloppy play—as an October 1954 lede by Halberstam attests...
With response rates lagging since its course guide went from paper to the Web in spring 2005, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) turned to the gridiron for help...