Word: haas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAA, as everyone knows, faces some nasty problems. How long will the Band, the pennants, pretty girls, the airplanes, lure students into Soldiers Field Saturday afternoons? Will it have to lower the admission price, or start slipping some of it to players! Both solutions are distasteful. But, some say, there is one other way out, if the HAA will take it: de-emphasis of the football games, emphasis of the goal-post riots...
Goal-post rallies plus extended Band concerts could make the strongest bill the HAA has had in years. The game could be run off, say, about noon, so the field would be clear when the gates opened. The cheerleaders would have room to tumble. The Band would play to a full house again. As the goal-posts wavered, up and down, yardcops and men with dates could sit back and watch a cast of thousands. The HAA would be back in business...
...interested should sign up at the HAA manager's office in the Harvard Union Building next Thursday, between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. These who agree to take the job are, usually asked by the HAA to appear for every game...
...protest such an extravagant and indirect expenditure to attract athletes to the University. If the money must be spent on athletics, let it be used to endow the HAA and take the burden of the annual deficit off the Faculty. Spend it on a hockey rink or resumption of the training table...
Garrison commented last night that he has not been approached by anyone from the HAA. He is currently a salesman for the New England Garter Company