Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 22:51:00 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Rat=Freshman; Football Terms



Barry quotes and annotates,







_Coffin Corner Kick_. This term was first applied to the slanting punts

of the University of Pennsylvania's George Brooke which rolled out of bounds

close to the angle formed by the sideline and the goal-line. The phrase

later was revived by LeRoy N. Wills, a lawyer whose hobby was teaching boys

to control their kicks and to punt diagonally for the deep corner. (When it

was rumored that Jimmy Hoffa was buried mob-style at Giants Stadium in New

Jersey, some headlines mentioned that he was in the "coffin

corner"--ed.)

Not to be picky, but I wanted to forestall a possible misinterpretation. When

Giants Stadium (a.k.a. The Meadowlands) was build in the Jersey swampland, the

rumor was it was built on top where Hoffa and various other putative mob

executees were buried. Hoffa's interment, in other words, would have

fertilized rather than disturbed the astroturf.



Larry