Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...
...swing through the West had surprised a lot of people, but few could have been more surprised than Henry Wallace. Almost everywhere he had packed the crowds in: 3,000 in Cleveland, 6,000 in Minneapolis, 8,000 in Detroit, a record 25,000 in Los Angeles' Gilmore Stadium. The people who came paid good prices to hear him: from 60? to $2.40 apiece in Chicago, a $3.60 top in Los Angeles...
Graduation week festivities will approach the 1941 norm in all respects but one this morning when the Senior Class marches into the Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop Triangle at 11 o'clock for Class Day Exercises. The only omission is the parade to the Stadium, with the traditional confetti battle...
...Elis, who came to Cambridge with great expectations and a thirst for victory unquenched since 1916, went away not much better off. Kane lead his team to a convincing 10 to 3 victory in the Stadium...
While 250 trackmen cavort in the Stadium across the road, the Varsity lacrosse team will play a squad composed of former college stars from the Boston Lacrosse Club tomorrow at 3 o'clock on the Business School Field. The Freshmen lacrosse team plays Lawrence Academy at Groton...