Word: springfields
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From 1889 to 1894 the games were held in Springfield, because Boston and New Haven complained about the damage wreaked on them in former years, and these two towns were annually depopulated for one weekend late in November. The seating situation was stringent, for Hampden Park held a bare 9,000 paying customers and the Springfield City Council kept more than 2,000 for the inhabitants of their own city...
...considered unfair, but the team let 220 of them go to the ordinary student buyers and the CRIMSON, calmed down. One undergraduate paid $25 for the first place in the line to buy tickets at the H.A.A. They had troubles in those days, too, with scalpers, and the Springfield police caught counterfeit tickets at the gates...
...undergraduate ate a special Mem Hall early breakfast and caught a private train to Springfield, where they alighted to wander around waving crimson flags and flunting crimson neckwear and Harvard buttons till game time, 2:15 o'clock...
Although the Harvard team was not beaten in nine games that fall, it was probably not a great Harvard eleven. There were only two tough opponents on the schedule--Yale and Princeton. The rest of the lineup was as follows: Bates, Boston College (before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson...
Landis pointed out that the strategic military importance of New England makes the question of local civilian defense a vital one. Arsenals at Water-town and Springfield, and important manufacturing centres elsewhere in this area would make the northeastern states an inviting target for enemy attacks. As a result, it is to the best interest of the nation that every preparation be made for an all-out civilian defense effort, which will require cooperation from every segment of the population...