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	Bladderball
		Bladderball was conceived by Yale student Philip Zeidman, owner of a six foot leather exercise ball, as a preliminary event before the Yale-Dartmouth game in 1954, according to respected Yale bladderball historian Sarah Hammond.
		Preparing for bladderball competition involved as much preliminary Alcoholic beverage consumption as preparing to watch the Yale-Dartmouth game did, particularly since the legal drinking age at the time was only 18 years of age.
		The bladderball itself is rumored to remain in the possession of the Yale Symphony Orchestra for some reason; it reappeared briefly in 1999 in a cameo role in a student film satirizing "Raiders of the Lost Ark", playing the large boulder.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/bl/Bladderball.htm (769 words)

	Yale Daily News - Bladderball: 30 years of zany antics, dangerous fun
		Hammond traces the name bladderball back to a combination of soccer and rugby that Yale students played on the New Haven Green in the first half of the 19th century, which was originally played with an inflated animal bladder.
		By the mid-1970s, bladderball had shifted from being a showdown between rival campus organizations to an all-out competition between the residential colleges, in which the goal was to get the ball over the High Street gate on Old Campus.
		Although most bladderball related injuries were comparatively minor, the reputation of Jonathan Edwards College was irreparably damaged in 1975 when an attempt to capture the ball using a hook, lowered by rope from a McClellan window, accidentally popped the ball.
	www.yaledailynews.com /articles/view/374 (1411 words)

	The Yale Herald - March 29, 2002 - Bladderball ban preserves Yale utopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bladderball existed as an annual ritual on Yale's Old Campus for 29 years, from 1954 to 1982.
		He banned bladderball from Yale indefinitely in 1982 and banned Pete Rose from baseball for life in 1989.
		The honorable sense of purpose of the liberal arts education and the sanctimony of the baseball diamond are thus preserved, sans bladderball and sans Pete Rose.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=473 (753 words)

	Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yale students claim to have invented Frisbee, by tossing around empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company.
		Another traditional Yale game was bladderball, played between 1954 and 1982.
		Bladderball: 30 years of zany antics, dangerous fun
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale_University (6480 words)

	Samurais and falling plaster: 100 years of weird Yale \| Oct 20, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Playing with an enormous canvas ball which measured six feet in diameter, the students claimed that the object of their game was to get the ball to the President's house.
		In 1972, the bladderball made it almost a quarter mile from Old Campus, causing traffic jams much to the delight of students.
		But four short years later, Bladderball met its demise when, even before it got outside Old Campus, the ball was deflated with a meat hook.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxx/2000.10.20/news/p5weirdyale.html (801 words)

	The Yale Herald - January 18, 2002 - Bladderball of the world, inflate! (again) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1975, an imaginative JE squad attempted to capture the ball using a meathook, which popped the bladderball and incited the other colleges to chant "JE sucks!" The rest is history, no doubt because preparing for bladderball involved almost as much morning alcohol consumption as the Yale-Harvard game.
		But unlike the University's other great athletic tradition, the bladderball was not a catalyst for division, but rather the round and leather emblem of togetherness.
		I pledge allegiance to the bladderball, and to the bladderball for which it stands; one bladderball, under bladderball, with bladderball and bladderball for bladderball.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=18 (697 words)

	Yale Daily News - Halloween: out of the bladderball and into the Hellfire
		Regulated by only the most vague of rules, the bladderball game -- a combination of soccer, rugby and anarchy -- was first organized as a precursor to Yale football games, but quickly evolved into a chaotic campus-wide competition between the residential colleges.
		The Halloween weekend bladderball game was outlawed in 1982 due to repeated incidents of vandalism, student injuries and unfortunate police run-ins.
		Drunken bladderball competitors, desperate to gain control of the ball, resorted to destructive tactics, such as cutting open a lock on an Old Campus gate, smashing a car and wrecking the Branford dining hall in their frenzy to win.
	www.yaledailynews.com /articles/findlegacy/23982 (1548 words)

	Yale Daily News - Bladderball: 30 years of zany antics, dangerous fun
		For nearly 30 years, Yale students demonstrated their worthiness to lead our nation by waging brutal struggles for an enormous leather orb.
		Arguably Yale's least dignified tradition, bladderball originated as a prelude to the annual Yale-Dartmouth football game in 1954.
		Yet that year marked the beginning of the end for bladderball, because pre-game pranks turned to vandalism.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=14884 (1444 words)

	Jonathan Edwards College
		Bladderball was the annual ritual unique to this campus, timed generally for the Saturday morning of Dartmouth Weekend, just after midterm, when spirits were most in need of venting.
		Other teams got a sense of who was responsible, and though the conspirators managed to escape with their lives, cries of “J.E. sucks” broke out on the Old Campus.
		After the Bladderball’s untimely demise, mourners carried its limp remains to CCL, around the circulation desk, and tried to put it on closed reserve.
	www.jonathanedwardscollege.com /about (2805 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		In 1932, upon the eve of Yale's fall semester, the New York Times published a picture of the newly-built Jonathan Edwards College.
		The unofficial motto of the College is "JE Sux." In 1975, several enterprising J.E. students came up with an ingenious but tragically flawed strategy for victory in the annual bladderball game.
		The plan was to take possession of the giant bladderball with a meathook.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jonathan_Edwards_College (1228 words)

	Yale Alumni Magazine: News From Alumni House
		The content of the magazine is the responsibility of the editors and the board of directors, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.
		Ronald P. Schwarz was the captain of the Davenport Press bladderball team.
		Need an excuse to visit offspring at Yale?
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/2004_01/aya.html (715 words)

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