Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the President took in his third football game of the season: Army-Navy at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium (see SPORT). Press Secretary Charley Ross was at pains to emphasize that the eight-car presidential special train burned no coal; its motors were driven by hydroelectric power. Traditionally impartial, the President changed sides in the middle of the game, but walked out (at Secret Service urging) with two minutes left to play, missed the Navy's nearly successful final drive...
...movies were taken from the top of the press box on the Harvard side of the stadium, and from that high vantage point should give a good picture of the band formations, according to Walter J. Skinner '48, band manager...
...battle of the bands sort of blew away in the Stadium gale . . . . the Yale tooters looked blue all the way through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...
Charlottesville, Virginia, will be the scene of the contest with the Cavaliers, whom the Crimson have played on eight previous occasions in the Stadium but never away. Harvard has won every one of its past encounters with Virginia, taking the last...
...only other striking features of the 1947 card entail return of several pre-war features to pre-war form. The annual Dartmouth encounter will be back in its old Stadium spot next fall, after having been moved up to Hanover for the first time in memory in 1946, and the Princeton classic will be back in its traditional position just before the Brown and Yale games...