Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place. In four years (1930-33) his teams lost only one game. But in addition to being a good strategist, teacher and psychologist, a modern coach must have a capable staff of scouts. He must develop sensational stars, draw crowds that can retire the bonds on an expensive stadium. In the past four years Coach Kipke has had no Willie Hestons, no Benny Friedmans; his teams lost 22. out of 32 games. Alumni were embarrassed. Last December they impolitely kicked out Kipke...
...Football League. Like baseball's pennant winners are the top-ranking teams of each division. Faintly comparable to the World Series are the Football Association Cup* games, which are sandwiched in throughout the eight-month season, come to a grand climax with the Cup Final at mammoth Wembley Stadium the last week in April...
...largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer player, has plowed back some of Arsenal's million-dollar-a-year income. Some tony innovations: a Club Enclosure (special section for 150 $50-a-year members who come in bowlers and tweeds), "lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room...
...year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games in Wisconsin's Camp Randall stadium producing a series of sketches and one big canvas, Goal Line Play, which looked like a monument to a lost opportunity...
Princeton finished second among the voting of the Eastern colleges, with a 75.2 count, while Yale turned up third, with 67.1. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium was the recipient of the tail-end prize, closely rivaled by the Yankee Stadium in New York. Navy and Dartmouth facilities were also judged among the poorest of the colleges...