Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter afternoon in 1969, a woman took her 16-year-old blind nephew to an ice rink in Philadelphia. The teenager surprised everyone by doing a competent job of staying on his feet. The rink's manager gave him a pair of skates and offered to let him use the rink regularly...
McInally stood up and placed a soccer ball about 20 feet in front of the green baseball backstop next to Watson Rink. He studied the ball for an instant, then flung his lanky frame at it, arms and legs flying in clutzy precision. THWACK! His foot hit the ball. THUD! The ball hit the wooden backstop and bounced back to McInally. He frowned...
...succumb to superdome mania. The designs call for small, stately new buildings that maintain the character of the senior building in the area--Dillon Field House. There is room in the area for a new track, swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, wrestling room and a hockey rink--all of which place functional priorities over ornamental values...
...tarnish dynamic plans for constructing the Soldiers Field complex and renovating the existing facilities. Anyone who has ever had to watch or play basketball in the IAB, or take a lap in Briggs Cage, or watched a hockey game in the quonset ice hut that is Watson Rink, will wish that the University had started this drive a long time...
...problem with Watson is that, being the only ice skating rink in the University, its use by undergraduates is limited. The Harvard teams, intramurals leagues, graduate schools, and local high schools, all skate at Watson, resulting in little accessibility for the general student body, and only then at inconvenient hours...