Trivia: Deaf Student Invented the (American) Football Huddle

• Thomas
  April 5th, 2008 at 9:12 am

  What are you, like 12?

• Leah King
  April 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am

  While Gallaudet disbanded the football team in 1994, they came back as a club team, and have been an NCAA DIV III football team since 2006. BTW, they won 4 games last season.

  Go Bisons!

• Nastia
  April 5th, 2008 at 11:16 am

  “to avoid the other team see his sign language” I don’t get it, is that worded correctly?

• CheeseDuck
  April 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  Was he embarrassed?

• Alex
  April 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  Yes, that’s awkward, wasn’t it? Thanks for noticing, Nastia - I’ve fixed the sentence (I think!)

• Ali S.
  April 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

  I’ve been trying to learn sign language for awhile. I’ve always considered it useful as I have one friend who is deaf and one who has a brother who is deaf.

• smak
  April 6th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

  “The American football huddle was invented by Paul Hubbard, a deaf player at Gallaudet University, to avoid the other team see his signs.”

  This is still awkward. A better way to write this would be:

  “The American football huddle was invented by Paul Hubbard, a player at the all-deaf Gallaudet University, to keep the other team from seeing his signs.”

• Kathleen
  April 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  what a fun fact

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