Tailgating from Yale; GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out)

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TAILGATING AT YALE

   I checked John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK, and he claims "tailgating" is from about 1947.
   An interesting article is NEW YORK magazine of NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 17 November 1963, pg. 17:

_Tailgating at Yale Bowl:_
"Bruce Made the Best Shishkabob..."_
by Robert G. Kaiser
(...)
   Yale people fancy that when tailgating began in New Haven after the last war, they had got in on something new.  In fact, the tradition is a much older one, finding its origin on the rolling fields of Virginia at the turn of the century, when gentlemen and their (Col. 2--ed.) ladies gathered for the annual sale of hunters (horses, that is) with their private bourbons and home-smoked hams.  The goodies were served out of the backs of horse carriages--horse carriages without tailgates, presumably.
   But at Yale the elaborate, vehicular picnic has found a permanent home, and testing ground.  Here it can thrive and evolve.

(VERY long article.  Attached is a GIGO posting that seems to be lost in cyberspace--ed.)
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