Word: extras
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Extra precautions have been taken to make the Bolyston street bridge perfectly safe, and able to hold the great crowds of people which will pass over it on November 23, the day of the Yale game. An auxiliary fence will be put up, making the bridge the same width throughout, and preventing the congestion of people at the draw, which is about six feet narrower than the rest of the bridge. Extra police will be stationed to prevent the crowds from pushing too heavily against the railing, which is old and in a weak condition. The bridge has been examined...
...scrimmage was held between the University substitutes and the second team, in which the substitutes had a slight advantage, but were unable to score until given an extra down on the second's 2-yard line. The end running of Glider and Cutting was the feature of the substitutes offense. Their defensive work in the line was, as a whole, stronger than the second's; although the second team twice held them for downs...
Since the professional baseball season terminated, a larger proportion of those who watch football practice are of the type known in baseball lore as "fans." Another unnecessary faction is the younger set of Cambridge and Boston uncertainties popularly known as "muckers." This decidedly extra-University element has certainly developed undesirable proportions. Theoretically there is no objection to orderly visitors who desire to watch our practice, but the unpleasant evidences of the tobacco chewing habit left in the Stadium by the older enthusiasts, and the utter disregard of the younger element for the rights of others, make their presence a nuisance...
...Extra seats for the Carlisle game will be built at the bottom of the Stadium, and an additional stand will probably be erected behind the goal-posts...
During the hours when the crowd will he greatest, the Boston Elevated Railroad will run extra cars form the subway to the Hall, and from the Hall to the nearest point to the Stadium...