Word: stadia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey of $309, and the rifle team of $39. Baseball, track, crew, basketball, fencing, lacrosse, polo, soccer", squash, swimming, tennis, and wrestling are all of them almost wholly supported by the revenue of intercollegiate football. The vicious circle at once becomes apparent. Successful football teams and huge stadia to house them form a business activity in which no college can afford to fall. Upon the shoulders of eleven men rests the physical development and health of the whole development and health of the whole undergraduate body. And since the development of bodily health has become a recognized duty...
...successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation of this were lacking, it would be supplied by the fact that "the appeal for stadia" so potent with the loyal graduate, has net struck as does as the appeals for educational endowments and buildings...
With the building of huge football stadia and the higher organization of all college athletics, football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds...
...limiting pre-season training; (b) by limiting the number of intercollegiate games; (c) by limiting the number of games in other college stadia; (d) by abolishing the so-called athletic scholarships and improper proselyting; (e) by encouraging intramural and interclass games...
...Alone in his glory, the great god of Football broods over the tiers of the empty stadia. This new-born yet mighty deity muses on the months that will have passed until the course of a new year shall again bring thousands to cast themselves at his feet. But though the god be dormant the cult goes on, for while high Priest Grange preaches the spirituality of football, thousands of coaches or minor clergy urge reverence for their chosen divinity...