Today's Tidbit... Hanging Out With The Dummies

Some people enjoy hanging out with dummies, and others do not, but we should all remember that the boys at Harvard were the first football team to hang out with dummies. Amos Alonzo Stagg drilled his squad with a dummy when he was Yale's captain in 1892, but it appears that Harvard's captain, Arthur Cumnock, suspended a dummy in the air for the first time that season. Nowadays, tackling dummies are terrestrial objects, grounded, but early tackling dummies hung out, enjoying their air time.

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