Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia will be good, That much was confirmed last night by end coach Elmer Madar, who scouted the Columbia-Amherst game. "I'd say they were 20 percent better than last year," Madar stated. "They're not as big as last season, but they are faster and in much better condition...
...inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
...played Columbia in New York since 1902 and had not played a major game in Gotham for well over a quarter of a century. There was no precedent to go by. Lunden was driven to a crystal ball for his prediction of Harvard fan attendance at an early season away game. He made the unfortunate assumption that undergraduates would not want to go to an away game the first Saturday after they arrived in College. So he decided to sell tickets first come, first served...
...guessed very wrong. A fabulous season ticket sale gobbled up 4000 of the seats (those in sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, section 5 being saved for the few undergraduate applicants). Saturday night Lunden totaled up his ticket requests and noted with surprise and horror that he already had 6000 applications for the 5000 seats. In desperation he phoned New York and got three more sections' worth of ducats, the not-so-good tickets in sections 1, 7, and 8. They disappeared yesterday...
...Boston Red Sox worked into a tie with the Yankees for the American League leadership yesterday by beating New York 4 to 1. Mel Parnell pitched his twenty-fifth victory, beating Allie Reynolds, and Ted Williams hit his forty-third home run of the season...