1932 Summer Olympics / American Football
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Competition venue | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum |
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date | August 8, 1932 |
American football was played as an Olympic demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . A game was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Participants were college football players from six universities.
history
The game was originally intended as a playoff between the champions of the respective associations, the University of Southern California on the west coast and Yale University on the east coast. USC coach Howard Jones suggested to the President of the 1932 Summer Olympics Organizing Committee, William May Garland , to use this game for the Olympics. Garland made this offer to Yales coach James Rowland Angell, who declined the offer. Even if this game was not held, the Olympic Kimotee had already decided to play American football as a demonstration sport. An all-star game was therefore played as an alternative .
game
The game took place on August 8, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles . Around 60,000 spectators were present.
Neither team could score points in the first three quarters of the game. In the third quarter, East tried to score a field goal , but the ball was hit short. The western players failed to get control of the ball, giving East a chance to get control of the ball. Burton Strange was able to get the ball under control for the Eastern team in the opposing end zone and thus score the first touchdown of the game. After the point after touchdown was blocked, East led 6-0. With three minutes to go, Gus Shaver ran into East's end zone for a touchdown. After the point after touchdown was successful, West led 7-6, which was the end result.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ray Schmidt: THE OLYMPICS GAME , College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2004.
- ^ Joan Mary Chandler: Television and national sport: the United States and Britain . University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1988, ISBN 978-0-252-01516-8 , p. 53, (Accessed December 28, 2015).
- ↑ The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 (PDF), Xth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, USA in 1932, 1933, pp 739-743 (Accessed on 28 December 2015).