Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind these men stands an announcer equipped with a megaphone and a powerful voice. He picks up the statements of the two spotters and repeats them to the press box, "Shakespeare ran, tackled by Jones...
They don't follow it any better than the family. The fact is that sports reporting has become as highly specialized a business as bootlegging, and there are as many aides in the press box as in a European hotel...
...these men of the working press that the mercies are multiplied. In the center of the press box, on the 50-yard line, sits an undergraduate from each of the contesting colleges. These students are provided with field glasses and an ability to recognize at sight all the members of their respective teams. When a play starts, they train their glasses on the scrimmage. The Siwash undergraduate says, "Shakespeare carrying the ball." As soon as the tackle is made, the Massachusetts undergraduate says, "Jones made the tackle...
...radio announcer, the man whose voice, carefully guarded by the proper cigarettes, carries the news to a listening world, is located in a little coop of his own at the back of the press box. Because he is within the walls of his pen, he does not hear the dictates of the announcer so readily, and has to rely more on his own judgment or identification...
...CRIMSON Guide to Press box intricacies", containing the ins and outs of big-game covering...