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All-America team, Gould wrote that the team was a "comprehensive consensus" based on input from 100 coaches and critics from around the country. In 1933, Gould was the first to coin the term "Grand Slam" in respect to winning the four major tennis titles in a calendar year. In 1936, Gould brought another innovation to the sport with the introduction of the
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to rank the country's college football teams and determine a national champion. He polled the editors of AP newspapers to determine the rankings. Gould later recalled, "It was a case of thinking up ideas to develop interest and controversy. Papers wanted material to fill space between games.
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That's all I had in mind, something to keep the pot boiling. Sports was then living off controversy, opinion, whatever. This was just another exercise in hoopla." The AP Poll quickly became the standard for determining each year's national championship team.
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