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...representatives from Yale met with individuals from Princeton, Rutgers and Columbia to create official rules for American football; what emerged was a game more resembling traditional European football--soccer--than anything else. Harvard pursued its own idea of the sport, closer to rugby and an early version of today's American football. In any case, in 1875, The Game was played without formally established rules, complicating the final tally: While the official record shows Harvard winning by a margin of four touchdowns and four goals to nothing for Yale, The Crimson credited the margin to be five goals to nothing...
...freshman with the biggest impact on the year may have been the one in goal, Cheryl Gunther. Gunther stepped into the sport's most pressure-filled position and simply shined. Gunther led the Ivy League in goals against average (0.44), goals allowed (seven) and save percentage (.922) en route to the league's Rookie of the Year award...
...comes from a family of athletes devoted to another sport--football. His father and all of his uncles excelled on the fields of established Division I programs...
...look similar, we both play the same sport, and now we're here at the same school," Melissa said. "But Sarah and I are so different...
When Julius Caesar made his triumphal entrance into Rome in 45 B.C., he celebrated by giving a feast at which thousands of guests gorged on poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring exorbitant consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories--in war, sport, politics and commerce--since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat...