Word: greatly
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...with all their showy extravagance, can not eclipse the history it contains.Shown in an aerial view, the Crimson football team meets Army in a 1929 encounter. The varsity tied the Cadets, 20 to 20, on a desperation pass play, in one of the greatest encounters in Stadium history. The great Barry Wood, then a sophomore and an alternate quarterback, teamed with starter Putnam to complete seven out of 12 passes for 168 yards. Wood also contributed two extra points. Army's immortal Chris Cagle, who was so good that Navy suspended the inter-service series during his career, ran wild...
Other epic contests have followed. One of the most famous was the 1929 Army contest, in which the Crimson tied a West Point eleven led by all-time great Chris Cagle, 20 to 20. Putnam and Barry Wood, then a substitute, completed seven of 12 passes for 168 yards, including a list-ditch aerial to end V.M. Harding for the tying touchdown...
...first of the great football fields, the Stadium influenced the shape and size of every other arena, and even made its mark on rules of the game. When public indignation over football's "roughness" forced President Theodore Roosevelt to institute a new set of rules in 1906, one of the proposed changes was to make fields a full 40 yards wider. This move would have changed the whole character of football, turning it into a Rugby-type game, with more lateral passing and sideways running. Harvard protested, however, that such an innovation would outdate its six-year-old Stadium...
...formal date, the Sarah Lawrence girl will typically dress chicly and drive to New York with her escort to see a show, stop in somewhere afterward, and return in plenty of time for her 2 a.m. curfew (Weekday curfews are 1:30). There is also a great exodus to Princeton, Yale, or home on weekends, leaving the campus quiet and lonely...
President Tweed's principal functions are representing the college and acting in a fund-raising capacity. Financially, he concedes, it is "a great handicap to have female alumnae," for it is their husbands that usually control the purse-strings. Active contributing by parents of undergraduates, however, adds to the success of an annual fund which generally nets about $100,000, sufficient to meet the college's basic needs...