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President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’
—For the State of Massachusetts, U. S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
Backyard Football ... I had a few brave girl friends that would play backyard football with us on occasion, but there were many times when I was the only one that wanted to play...