Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers...
...spectators are an extremely knowledgeable and convivial lot. Soccer at the pre-college level is confined almost entirely to the Eastern prep schools, and most rosters are studded with athletes from Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and the rest. Thus, a soccer crowd is likely to consist of people who share this "preppy" orientation. Also, since soccer fans, once committed, are passionately loyal to the game, those in attendance usually understand every rule and nuance. Programs were a luxury the team could not afford this year, but, after the season's first encounter, everyone was thoroughly acquainted with the lineup...
...even more talkative affair was the Columbia encounter. Much of the conversation in this game, however, was lost on the crowd, since the Lions fielded one of the most multilingual elevens ever seen here. The Crimson's Mudd started the byplay by remarking, "Those Columbia boys are pretty rough. They're from New York City." After a few crunching collisions around the Columbia goal, a Lion player countered, "Gee, fellows. He's a Hahvuhd man." Things were pretty rough for a while...
...addressing the crowd at the film showing, Lenzner spoke highly of the varsity's two strong lines, the "good material," and the team's high hopes for victory in next year's difficult opener against Holy Cross...
Terry F. Lenzner '61 (above right), of Dunster House and New York City, has been elected captain of the 1960 varsity football team. An exhuberant crowd of 500 roared its approval last night as outgoing captain Hank Keohane (left and bottom), announced the team's decision at the showing of the Yale game films in Lowell Lecture Hall...