Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale University officials met yesterday and will continue meetings today to decide if any further moves against polio at Yale will be necessary...
Explaining the move, Athletic Director Robert J. Kiphuth said that Yale health officials had advised a ban on heavy exercise for ten days to cover the normal polio incubation period. As a result, not only the Fordham game, but also a freshman game and all intramural sports will be eliminated at Yale for the next ten days...
...ailing Yale player, second-string fullback Richard D. Liechty, a senior from Lake Geneva, Wis., played over half of last Saturday's game with Connecticut. After the game Liechty reported to the infirmary with a back strain. Yesterday the case was diagnosed as polio...
...other Yale students, seniors William C. Butter and Salvatore Miano, are in Connecticuts hospitals with polio, but neither is an athlete and doctors believe the three cases are unrelated...
Reaction at Yale to the sudden cancellation of Saturday's Bowl game-the first such occurrence in over 35 years- was termed "favorable" last night by the Daily News, Yale newspaper. Students, the paper said, seem glad to take precautions against the possible spread of polio, but there is no widespread fear or panic...