A danger to players . . . not in keeping with the spirit of the game . . . virtually unstoppable.” That’s what they were ...

This led to the brutality of the game creating numerous fatalities, so bad that the Flying Wedge was outlawed in 1894 and in 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt had to step in to tell football it had ...

But modern football is entirely the product of ever ... ban illegal assistance for a runner from his teammates. The “flying” wedge play was forbidden in 1893, partly because it was duller ...

For eight years and more the salient feature of Republican politics has been based on an old football formation, the flying wedge: The team holds hands and plows together into their opponents, maximum ...