Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nieman 3 (Hanlon, Dave Williams) 11:09; 6, H, Murphy 2 (Vukonich, Burke) 12:41. Penalties--H, Burke (high sticking) 2:49; D, Pat Wildman (roughing) 7:29; H, Drury (roughing) 7:29; H, Melrose (holding) 8:36; H, Young (tripping) 9:29; D, Kevin Kiley (playing without a helmet...
This Sunday, when the camera zooms in for a closeup of the National Football League action, look carefully at the helmets. Chances are you will see the ) word Riddell emblazoned on the nose guard. Riddell Inc. of Chicago has 60% of the N.F.L. helmet market and a peculiar contract: if players use another brand of helmet, they must cover the maker's name. Riddell won that provision in return for supplying N.F.L. teams with free helmets, pads and jerseys...
Illegal procedure, says the country's only other major helmet producer, Athletic Helmet Inc. of Litchfield, Ill. A.H.I. has filed suit in federal court alleging that Riddell conspired to monopolize N.F.L. sales and deprive A.H.I.'s trademark of exposure on national TV. "If your product is not seen in the N.F.L. market," says Richard Compere, A.H.I.'s lawyer, "then it loses credibility...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...
Reidy was spotted in uniform at Schoellkopf Field last Saturday--and even donned his helmet after Cornell scored its fourth unanswered touchdown--but he never saw action...