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wasoxygen  ·  3188 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is the fish kick the fastest stroke yet?

    a large number of offensive players charged as a unit against a similarly arranged defense

Wow, back in the days when footballers were footballers. While they survived.

Wikipedia says the formation wasn't exactly banned in collegiate football, but linking arms was prohibited. "Professional and Canadian football went still farther in theoretically not allowing any transfer of momentum between teammates in blocking, but that prohibition is not strictly enforced."

Tennis has also had to evolve. thenewgreen, did you see the article showing how the power game changed the grass wear patterns at Wimbledon?

This is from the John McEnroe / Bjorn Borg final in 1980.

And this is during Nadal/Berdych in 2010.