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September, 1971

It's Been a lot of autumns since the president of Cornell refused to let his school's football team travel to Cleveland to "agitate a bag of wind" and Teddy Roosevelt--who had no qualms about shooting down assorted fauna but found college football too brutal for a civilized society--threatened to use his Presidential big stick to curtail the mayhem. Sports have since become America's biggest and most lucrative form of show business. Thus, though the facade of (text continued on page 15...

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