Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia made up the original Intercollegiate Football Association that ... of the mass-momentum plays, the "flying wedge". The play was the brainchild of Boston ...

Harvard responded by ... companions of the practice and the 'Flying Wedge' as he saw it," Knox wrote. "At an adjoining table sat a Yale man who knew football," the tale continued.

Football in nineties was practically barred and would probably have been stopped had it not been legislated against most decisively, and the cause of this was the famous "flying wedge.' ...

During the period, severe injuries, and sometimes even death, occurred because of physical formations such as the flying wedge ... across the football field during the Harvard-Yale game with ...

Harvard wins 4-0. Nov. 12, 1881: Yale kicks first onside kick. 0-0 tie. Nov. 19, 1892: Flying wedge used for the first ... First radio broadcast overseas of football game. Harvard wins 13-0.

More than 100 years ago, college football adopted rules to prevent "the flying wedge," which ... Deland's "fling wedge" during the 1892 Harvard-Yale game: Deland divided Harvard's players into ...

Here, dispassionately, we can review Harvard and Yale football, not in a spirit of ... of my own principle of the previous year — the flying wedge; but it was twice as powerful, because his ...

"Everybody is looking to make sure we have a safe environment for the players," said Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football ... "fling wedge" during the 1892 Harvard-Yale game ...

By 1905, football had already outlawed the sport’s most dangerous play, the flying wedge. But the game found ... He called Harvard, Yale and Princeton down to the White House to discuss the ...