Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Barrett Wendell underwent a serious operation for mastoid yesterday morning, and is now in a critical condition at the McDowell Hospital, Boston. He had been suffering from a growth in one ear, and a portion of the bowl had to be removed, causing him much pain...
Lack of available funds threatens to seriously delay the completion of the Yale Bowl, which was expected to be finished in time for the Harvard-Yale game next fall. A circular appeal to graduates requesting funds so that the structure may be finished in time, has been sent out by the committee in charge of the construction...
According to the present plans, there will be no running-track in the Yale Bowl, and consequently there is much agitation in New Haven for track facilities in this mammoth structure which will cost in the neighborhood of $700,000. The Intercollegiate meet has never been held at Yale because they do not have either suitable dressing rooms or adequate seating accommodations, and the Yale track authorities are very earnestly agitating the holding of this annual event at New Haven. They point out the adaptability of the Bowl to track athletics, and urge a change in the structural plans, which...
...committee on the erection of the Bowl brings up a number of arguments against the project of altering the structure. In order to have the 220-yard straight-away necessary to track equipment, a tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the Bowl at the excessive cost of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Not only is this objection raised, but it is maintained that the arrangement would create powerful air currents which would hinder the runners and that the other colleges would therefore refuse to compete on such a track. Other arrangements have been suggested, such as cutting...
...erection of the new Bowl has brought about the question of the disposal of the old wooden football stands at Yale Field. The Yale-Princeton game of November 15, 1913, was undoubtedly the last championship game that will ever be played on the old field. The wooden stands will remain until next winter at least, in case work on the Bowl should be delayed. It is probable that all the minor games next fall will be played on the old field. It is planned to build the new double-decked covered baseball stand on the site of the present football...