Word: stadiumitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
...design of Harvard Stadium, which has practically half of its seating capacity in the deep bowls behind the end zones, is one undeniable reason why the H.A.A.'s task of alloting seats is such a thankless one. But the confusion, the disappointment, the hard feelings, that accompanied distribution of seats for last fall's football games stemmed in part from archaic methods and inefficiency within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack...
...H.A.A.-booklet purchaser pays $15 for single admittance to all Harvard home athletic contests. With the booklet, he receives two single tickets, located according to his class, for the Boston University and Western Maryland games in the Stadium. In the booklet, he has a coupon for each of the remaining home games. At least two weeks before the game, he must submit the coupon at the H.A.A. ticket office--in the basement of the Union--for either a single ticket or a pair. Four days after the application deadline, the H.A.A. will announce whether or not there are more seats...
...Often, we had trouble getting the returned singles together and many good seats would go to outsiders or remain unpurchased. The new system is much more flexible, assuring students the best seats in the Stadium, regardless of whether they go by themselves or bring someone."H.A.A. Director Bingham expects his projected ticket system to eliminate from the University scene such trying situations as this, when, five days before the Yale game last fall, students walted for as long as an hour and a half in frosty weather to make out applications...
Virginia, the only school to be played away from the Stadium except Yale, has set a $3.60 price on tickets for the Harvard contest, with season ticket holders getting the usual fifty percent reduction...