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The influenza outbreak was colloquially called Spanish flu. Most flu outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients, but the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. [ 11 ]
14 sie 2018 · By 1918, so many former college football players were enlisting in the armed forces that military camps were putting together the first “All-Star” sports teams to exist in this country.
10 kwi 2018 · 30 Photos. In Focus. Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months....
6 maj 2020 · The possibility of holding some form of the 2020 college football season during a pandemic has sent folks scurrying to research the 1918 season. That's when the Spanish Flu outbreak...
The influenza epidemic affected Penn’s campus in many ways. Surprisingly, one of the most significant impacts was the interruption of sports seasons, especially football. The ban on public gatherings affected Penn’s football team, as well as other teams nearby and across the country.
16 mar 2020 · Football became an afterthought when a flu pandemic struck Michigan's campus in 1918. What can we learn from those dark days?
The next day—October 9, 1918—the Daily gave its first accounting of a wave of illness crashing across campus. More than 100 students, it said, were under doctors’ care. Spanish influenza—the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century—had come to Stanford.
