One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.

From 1931 until his death in 1939, Sapir taught at Yale University, where he became the head of the Department of Anthropology.

From 1701-1745, the head of the school that was to become Yale University was termed the " rector ".

The college's mascot is the moose, inspired by the installation in the dining hall of a stuffed moose head in honor of former college master and Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti.

The third volume of that first edition was published in 1987, but was already being superseded by a second, revised edition of the entire work, greatly aided through the advice and assistance of then Yale doctoral candidate Grant Hardy, Dr. Gordon C. Thomasson, Professor John W. Welch ( the head of FARMS ), Professor Royal Skousen, and others too numerous to mention here.

Camp served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 before moving to Stanford University, where he coached in December 1892 and in 1894 and 1895.

Former head coach William H. Claflin and former captain George Owen are credited with the first use of line change in a game against Yale on March 3, 1923 when the Crimson substituted entire forward lines instead of individuals.

Wood went on to become head baseball coach at Yale University, where he compiled a career managing record of 283 – 228 – 1 over 20 seasons.

He continued as the head of Yale until commencement on September 10, 1766 when he presided over his last commencement, delivered his valedictory address, and resigned.

Yale ’ s father was a successful inventor who specialized in locks and mechanical engineering, and who held eight patents for locks and another half dozen for threshing machines, sawmill head blocks, and millstone dressers.

During his years as head of the institution, Yale developed as a university.

Ducky Pond, the last Yale alumnus to be head football coach at Yale University, was a Hotchkiss alumnus.

Other Levin appointees who have left to head other universities include Richard Brodhead, a former dean of Yale College, who left to become the president of Duke University, and Rebecca Chopp, a former dean of the Yale Divinity School, who left Yale to take the helm of Colgate University and is currently president of Swarthmore College.

* James Jones ( basketball coach ) ( born 1964 ), current men's basketball head coach at Yale University

Ryan graduated from Yale University, worked for Raytheon as an engineer, and then moved to Mattel where he was head of research and development.

King Tut was a timid Yale history professor who, after being hit in the head with a brick at a peace rally, donned the persona of the Egyptian royal.

Trippe, his wealthy Yale roommate Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and their Aviation Corporation of the Americas chairman Richard Hoyt were close to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, W. Irving Glover, the professional head of the U. S. Post Office as the position of Postmaster General was a political sinecure.

As head of " the Rep " from 1966 to 1979, Brustein brought professional actors to Yale each year to form a repertory company and nurtured notable new authors including Athol Fugard.

Yale was the head of navigation for steamships on the Fraser River and very near the starting point for his first contract at Emory's Bar.

He entered Yale College at the age of 16, and graduated at the age of 20 at the head of his class.

* Dick Jauron ' 73, Yale Running Back and former head coach of the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills, currently defensive back coach for Philadelphia Eagles

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Intending to work with his father on their ranch, Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific ( now the University of the Pacific ) studying veterinary science, but transferred on the urging of the head of zoology, Dr. Arnold, who told him " Brubeck, your mind's not here.

He was head of the Department of Phonetics at University College, London.

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

Brother Robert Fanovich, head of Presentation Brothers ' College ( PBC ) in St. George's tasked some of his senior students with conducting a research project into the era and specifically into the fact that Maurice Bishop's body was never discovered.

Election usually is the constitutional way to choose the head of state of a republic, and some monarchies, either directly through popular election, indirectly by members of the legislature or of a special college of electors ( such as the Electoral College in the United States ), or as an exclusive prerogative.

Weaver ultimately narrowed his choices down to three: Mike Shanahan, an assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, and Tom Coughlin, head coach for Boston College.

* Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern ( or H. Kern, 1833 – 1917 ), Dutch linguist and former head of Brahmana College and of Queen's College, Benares

The Council of People's Commissars appointed itself the supreme head of the Red Army, delegating immediate command and administration of the Army to the Commissariat for Military Affairs and the Special All-Russian College within this commissariat.

Currently, Belichick is head coach of the New England Patriots, while Coughlin went from Boston College to be the first-ever head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and is currently the head coach of the Giants.

The head of state of the Vatican is the pope, elected by the College of Cardinals, an assembly of Senatorial-princes of the Church, who are usually clerics, appointed as Ordinaries, but in the past have also included men who were not bishops nor clerics.

The Note was thus added by papal authority, consistently with the idea that the consent of the Pope, as head of the College of Bishops was necessary, and that he had the " right to make his consent dependent on an interpretation determined in advance ".

Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department.

One of his significant contributions as head of the Army was the establishment of the Command School ( now the Command and General Staff College ) at Fort Leavenworth.

As the runners reach the, they pass by the Old Royal Naval College and head towards Cutty Sark drydocked in Greenwich.

At two of the Oxford colleges, Lincoln College and Exeter College, the head is called " rector ".

St Chad's College, one of the two so-called " recognised colleges " of the University of Durham, has a Rector as titular head ( the Dean of Durham Cathecdral ex officio ) while the academic head is the Principal.

At University College London, the head is the Provost ; at King's College London the head is the Principal ; at Imperial College London the head is the Rector ; and the London School of Economics is headed by a Director.

At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.

Thomas Rotelli, head of Rhode Island Incinerator Service, Inc., said four of the company's eight trucks were making collections with both newly hired and regular workers.

Thomas C. Howard was head designer, architect and engineer for both companies.

The controversy would surface in the Thomas Becket affair under Henry II of England, the Great Charter of 1217, the Statutes of Mortmain and the battles over Cestui que use of Henry VII of England, and finally come to a head under Henry VIII of England.

Laying his head in her lap, a drunken Thomas proposed.

At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.

File: Nida ThomasMann cottage. jpg | Horse head gables on German author Thomas Mann's cottage in Nida, Lithuania

" Mr. Thomas Scott, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrosy of Monk ... said: ' That though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand, but his heart also was in it ' and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, ' that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the folloing inscritption might be engraved on his tomb ; " Here lies one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late King of England.

The head of state is President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as represented by prefect Thomas Degos.

Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, Richard Rich, to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the legitimate head of the church.

* body and head of Thomas More at Find A Grave

Thomas W. Miller, head of the Office of Alien Property, was put on trial and convicted of accepting bribes.

** President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.

* Thomas Quasthoff, an internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, who describes himself: " 1. 34 meters tall, short arms, seven fingers — four right, three left — large, relatively well-formed head, brown eyes, distinctive lips ; profession: singer "

In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.

At the time of Secretariat's death, the veterinarian who performed the necropsy, Dr. Thomas Swerczek, head pathologist at the University of Kentucky, did not weigh Secretariat's heart, but stated, " We just stood there in stunned silence.

Unbeknownst to Flagg, when he delivers the poison, Thomas is watching through the glass eyes of the mounted head of Roland's greatest trophy, the dragon.

This was following a serious head injury to young defender Thomas Bender in the initial tie.

After Amy takes off and begins to head toward the sanctuary, Thomas hitchhikes a ride with a local group of hippies who take him to the bird sanctuary.

Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose martyrdom, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.

Hartman helped them hire John Kundla from College of St. Thomas, to be their first head coach, by meeting with him and selling him on the team.

It was named for then head of the company, Thomas Lynch.

The assistant band director, Thomas Aungst, was the former percussion caption head for The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps until 2008, and the music department has also had ties to the Boston Crusaders in the past.

Sir Thomas More was put to death by his former student, Henry VIII, for his refusal to recognize Henry as the head of the church.