Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heps, blue-ribbon meet for all Ivy colleges, will be held this year in the Stadium on May 17. The Crimson will play host to Army, Navy, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Army, with 56 points, was an easy winner last spring, with the Crimson in fifth place...
Viva! Mexico was ready for him. The weather was perfect-hot, bright, dry. Hundreds of thousands cheered him as he rode through the city, flanked by noisy coveys of brown-uniformed federal motorcycle policemen. When he made an appearance at the national stadium he was greeted by waves of applause, bugle calls, band music and a thunderous 21-gun salute...
...Chicago Stadium last week, the night was filled with the music of haymakers-and lighted by flashbulbs. It was the semifinals of the national Golden Gloves tournaments, and 500 U.S. newspapers had a proprietary interest in the slugging. The contestants had been chosen in local contests sponsored by the papers. Though the fighters usually showed more spunk than skill, Golden Gloves had produced Joe Louis. The photographers worked as hard on their bosses' pet sport promotion as the leather-pushers. Their pictures were the sport shots of the week (see cuts...
...Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...
Across the Charles is the Business School. Here also, in the shadow of the Stadium, are the Dillon Field House and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newall Beat House...