From the Academy

Gorillas in the Stadium

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, once Michigan State College, before that Michigan Agricultural College, did fairly well in football in 1956, as was to have been expected. It’s football or else at, MSU. President John M. Hannah once declared, according to Time (October 8), “If it meant the betterment of Michigan State, our football team would play any eleven gorillas from Barnum & Bailey any Saturday.”