Honor roll of history's quotable quotes."It is a prolate pro·late adj. 1. Having the shape of a spheroid generated by rotating an ellipse about its longer axis. 2. Having the polar axis longer than the equatorial diameter: a prolate spheroid. spheroid spheroid /sphe·roid/ (sfer´oid) a spherelike body. spher·oid or sphe·roi·dal adj. Having a generally spherical shape. in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." He coached at the high school and college level for 36 years, inaugurated the forward pass and the wearing of helmets, and occasionally employed humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was to instruct his players. Then the name of John Heisman John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a prominent American football player and college football coach in the early era of the sport and is the namesake of the Heisman Trophy awarded annually to the season's best college football player. , who died in 1936, was chosen as the symbol for the famous trophy awarded annually to the nation's finest college player. |
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