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“Desire is a tree with leaves, hope is a tree in bloom, enjoyment is a tree with fruit.”
― Thomas Fuller, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

“Sound and Fury, where a deaf couple, Peter and Nita Artinian,”
― Thomas Fuller, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

“American Underdog,”
― Thomas Fuller, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

“This was by no means the first time that deaf teams encountered the question of keeping their communication secret. More than a century earlier, the same dilemma had led to a significant contribution to the game of football: the invention of the huddle. Paul Hubbard, the quarterback for Gallaudet University in 1894, had faced a series of fellow deaf teams. His solution was to tell his teammates to meet before the play in a circle, backs toward any prying eyes. The huddle was born. Hubbard would later become an instructor at the Kansas State School for the Deaf, and he took his innovation with him. Hearing coaches took note, and the practice spread across the Midwest and then throughout the country. Today, Gallaudet celebrates the invention by selling T-shirts and other swag that read “Home of the Huddle.”
― Thomas Fuller, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory