Montagnards & 9 yards proposal

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:18 PM -0500 1/25/04, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>The text evidence already leads to Vietnam. The memory cited of Bragg in 1968,
>in this case, is merely confluent indication. I, too, have been told memories
>of the phrase, including one supposedly involving an Ivy League football game
>in the late 1920s or early 1930s, which I doubt.
>
Those purported links to football always struck me as dubious,
barring the unearthing of evidence demonstrating that an offense used
to need just 9 yards to make a first down, before inflation came into
play.

larry