Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When an opening game crowd files slowly into the Stadium this afternoon to inaugurate the seventy-third season in Crimson gridiron history, the visiting team for the first-time will be provided by Western Maryland College. The kick-off is scheduled for 2:30 o'clock, with football and musical entertainment being provided for the patrons by scholars of both institutions...
...visitors sent three full teams into the Stadium yesterday afternoon to hold their final practice before actual combat. Following their retreat into Dillon Field House. Dick Harlow sent his clean-uniformed forces onto the same gridiron to pose for pictures and run through plays. If the opposition today is half as ferocious as the cameraman they faced yesterday, the game ought...
...Brahmin in the pages of this week's New Yorker indicates a preference for the Crimson banner over the green and gold of Western Maryland. If you put the same first question in cold cash to a sporting speculator last night as to the outcome of this afternoon's Stadium encounter you could probably have come up with 25 to 1 for the long shot. You'd also be mightly lonesome...
...Boston's most unique coming-out parties of the season is slated for tomorrow afternoon, not at the Copley-Plaza, but in the Stadium, where Richard Cresson Harlow will formally introduce his 1947 eleven at a not-so-exclusive tete-a-tete beginning at 2:30 o'clock...
Naturally the true test of this team will come under actual playing conditions, and year after year the pre-season speculators are ruthlessly contradicted by the passage of time. But if the two lengthy scrimmages in the Stadium are any indication, the 1947 Crimson outlook is favorable. The Eagles' 228-pound line and classy quarterback Ed Clasby notwithstanding, it is giving Boston College the better of it to call those two contests a draw...