The Elam Ending
The Basketball Tournament has finally scored with the Elam Ending. In case you’ve missed it, The Basketball Tournament has adopted Nick Elam’s “hybrid game format for basketball duration” for its preliminary rounds. The format is known now as the Elam Ending in his honor. Nick initially explained the Elam Ending in the very first article […]
Football Injuries at Harvard Before and After the 1906 Reforms
During a brutal 1905 football season resulting in multiple fatalities, President Theodore Roosevelt met with college officials to discuss reforming the sport. By December 1905, 62 schools had appointed a rules committee for intercollegiate football. In January, reforms were set in motion, including the legalization of the forward pass and the banning of unnecessary roughness. […]