Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are, however, a considerable number of men in the College whose interest in football transcends a noisy display of doubtful enthusiasm on the steps of Widener. To these men who would prefer to give evidence of their support in a less violent form, the Stadium could be thrown open Friday afternoon during the final practice. In the presence even of a silent group of on-lookers the team should find encouragement, and at the same time the necessity for a specially prepared stimulant in the form of a rally would be obviated...
...Found on the Princeton campus night after the game was the body of Jay Franklin Towner III, son of a Baltimore vegetable packer. When an autopsy disclosed internal injuries, broken wrists, face abrasions, police surmised that he was crushed in the crowd leaving Palmer Stadium, picked up by someone who intended taking him to the infirmary but dropped him on discovering that he was dead...
Despite its lack of weight in the line, the well-coached and intelligent Brown football team should win from Harvard in the Stadium today, though the final score will be close. Harvard will score at least one touchdown. Brown comes here in top physical condition. The fine spirit of the Bruins was well exemplified last week when they downed Syracuse, after excessive beatings from Yale, Holy Cross and Princeton...
...something it has not done this season, it should score an easy victory. On the other hand, if Harvard should play the same unsubstantial football as it has in the major games this season, Brown's superior speed and deceptive attack may earn its second consecutive win in the Stadium...
People attending the football games at the Stadium are forced to put up with sanitary facilities which can best be described as barbaric. The gentleman's rooms, for instance, consist of a twenty-foot fence with three-foot wings on each end; for them, and, presumably, for the ladies', the drainage arrangements, other than those provided by Mother Earth, are nil. This state of affairs, obviously, possesses certain more or less serious drawbacks; among them are its potentialities as a seventh heaven for bacteria...