Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...south end of the grounds laid out for the game is a large grandstand, while along each side benches are to be built extending from the grand-stand to the other end of the field. Behind the goal posts at the north end of the field is the only place reserved for coaches and carriages...
Holmes Field has been greatly improved by the addition of a new grandstand at the northeast corner; while Jarvis has been also benefited by the transference of the old stand to the northern side...
...seldom that an audience of 4,000 is attracted by the announcement of an inter-collegiate game, yet that is the number that passed through the gates of the Yale Athletic Grounds last Saturday. The spacious new grandstand was densely packed with specta tors, Yale students for the most part, while crowds took up their position along the ropes stretching toward first and third bases: In the rear of the spectators some two score of drags, barouches, and dog-carts took their positions, laden with the lady supporters of the Blue and their escorts. Soon after three o'clock...
During the past year little or nothing has been done toward raising more money for a suitable grandstand more money for a suitable grand-stand and dressing-rooms near the track, and for a fund to keep the track in order. For this purpose, and for a fence, if not impracticable, a large sum of money is needed, and when the committee on the track is reconstituted by the association, or by the executive committee this fall, we must hope that its action will be energetic and that the men appointed by it to raise money in college and from...