Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football games that Harvard and Yale have played, he has seen all but one. But even Banker Ellis had never seen a Harvard-Yale game quite like the one last week. A gusty south wind from Long Island Sound lashed rain into the Yale Bowl by the cloudful. The 50,000 people (who contributed only $2,315 to solicitors for an unemployment fund) kept away from the field till the last minute and then piled into the Bowl wearing oilskins, rubber boots, blankets, with newspapers folded around their necks for scarves and wrapped around their hats. The storm made...
...reads the papers or listens to the radio needs to be told that college football is no longer a miraculous money-maker. Harvard's team did not play before a single capacity crowd in the stadium during the season just ended. Yale's experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where...
...article, which was probably written a month or two ago. But, as regards the New England situation at least, one wonders if his announcement of football's demise is not slightly premature. If tickets to the Harvard-Yale game had been $2.50 each instead of $4.00, would not the bowl have been filled last Saturday (assuming, of course, that the sun shone!)? Aren't such games, which serve as much as social gatherings as athletic spectacles, so deeply embedded in tradition that they will continue indefinitely? And, if the non-collegiate public has lost its taste for college games...
Last year's Class Day was a none too laudable example of the way in which that part of Commencement may be conducted. The excellence of the individual speeches was somewhat wasted on an over-large expanse of grey concrete. Even the bowl end of the Stadium, as used for these exercises, is quite cheerless unless generously filled by the fair onlookers who smilingly await the 'three times three for the ladies' given by the marching alumni on the turf below. The parade itself was too a small, largely because many of the alumni had Class Day afternoon scheduled...
...Bowl, without the extra wooden seats, accommodates approximately 71,000 persons, leaving 16,000 seats as yet unsold. These remaining tickets are on public sale in New York City, and therefore no report has been submitted as to how many have been sold. Last year, when the game was played at the Harvard Stadium, which seats over 57,000 persons, a capacity crowd attended...