Timeline for The word for people stacking up on top of each other
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 19:46 | comment | added | DavePhD | @lly and if we include the hyphenated form, 14 November 1897 Seattle post-intelligencer : "when the pile-up was dissolved it was found that there had been no gain" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045604/1897-11-14/ed-1/… | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 19:42 | comment | added | DavePhD | @lly 12 October 1899 Wood County Reporter "He is a valuable back and a plunk crawler under a big load in the pileup". chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033078/1899-10-12/ed-1/… | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 19:26 | comment | added | DavePhD | @lly The 11 December 1913 Bridgeport Evening Farmer says that 14 people died playing football so far in 1913, including a student at recess who "jumped into a pileup and was buried under a mass of players". chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022472/1913-12-11/ed-1/… | |
| S Jul 23, 2018 at 21:31 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:39 | comment | added | lly | Dogpile dates to the '20s, also in reference to US football, so no it isn't "very recent". Doubtless "pile" by itself, "stack", etc. are much older of course. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:14 | comment | added | DavePhD | @lly "pileup" goes back to at least the 1930s for football. The word is used in this official NFL history "On the next play, concealed by a pileup, George punched the guard smartly in the teeth" books.google.com/… "dogpile" is very recent | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | lly | It's a valid answer to the question (as is pile-on) but afaik it's not an official term and it's less common than 'dogpile' in general reference to NFL scrums. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 0:25 | comment | added | JJJ | Careful though, the brain injuries are real (and more common than you might think). | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 12:51 | history | answered | DavePhD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |