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Texas A&M Football

Ball security paves A&M's way to Oxford

October 9, 2013
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“What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere 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.”

—John Heisman


Each year John Heisman, the legendary Georgia Tech football coach who has a popular trophy named after him, would address his team and make quite clear just how much he abhorred turnovers.


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