American Football, Men

American football was demonstrated within the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 8 August at 8 in the evening, the only time it has been a demonstration sport at the Olympics. In 1904 a series of college games in the St. Louis area is described in the Official Report, but they had no significant connection to the Olympic Games. The 1932 demonstration was a single game played by American college players from the East, representing Yale, Harvard, and Princeton; and the West, representing Cal Berkeley, Stanford, and Southern Cal, and newspapers noted that the game was a test of football’s new rules. The game was scoreless for three quarters, but the East team led until deep in the fourth quarter, 6-0, when Gus Shaver, of Southern Cal, scored for the West with seconds remaining on a fourth-down play, and the extra point by Ed Kirwan gave the West the victory, 7-6.