Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substitution of a game in the Stadium with Michigan to replace last fall's conflict with Pennsylvania is the outstanding feature of the 1930 football schedule given out by W. J. Bingham '16 last night. Two other changes from the 1928 schedule are the substitution of William and Mary for Lehigh and Vermont for North Carolina. The complete schedule is as follows...
Permanent steel stands seating approximately 18,000 persons will fill in the open end of Harvard Stadium next fall, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics in the University. This announcement ends the problem which has been before the Harvard athletic authorities since the temporary wooden structure, which has been used for the last twenty years, was condemned two years ago by the Boston Building Commissioners...
Advise Rebuilding Stadium...
Following the ultimatum issued by the Building Commissioners, the Athletic authorities of the University studied the problem, and decided that if any permanent improvements were to be made at Soldiers Field, the Stadium should at that time be enlarged to seat 80,000 persons. The Athletic Committee so recommended to the Harvard Corporation at that time, but the members of that body voted down any proposal to materially increase the seating capacity of the stadium...
Although plans have at last been adopted which call for the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...