Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale Bowl, 25 Yalemen seized Princeton's radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern lawn, and chopped down the Palmer Stadium goal posts. The Yale dean called it "vendetta spirit which surpasses the realm of good...
...grads trailed away from the Stadium late Saturday afternoon, even the hardest-bitten had to admit that the 1946 season was a proud one. Alumni have a way of taking traditional rivalries and inflating these matches until entire seasons are made, or broken, by the one Big Game. According to these standards, this fall's slate is very little better than that of other years when the Varsity fell before nearly every power in he east. The importance of this Yale game was accentuated by the resurgent interest of scattered sons of the University who followed the game by wire...
Turning to the social aspects of life in New Haven, let us touch first on a matter of some interest these days -- the weekend football games. Princetonians slip quietly across their backyard to Palmer Stadium, Cantabrigians cross a river on a picturesque bridge to reach Soldiers Field, but the Elimen on the way out to the Bowl have a system all their...
Raison d'etre of the most hectic resurrection of collegiate tradition, folderol, and general social fireworks Cambridge has seen since the days of the John Held cartoon, the sixty-third Harvard-Yale football game gets under way at the Stadium today at 1:45 o'clock. The Elis are rated a strong favorite to defeat the Crimson and annex the Big Three title...
...sellout crowd of close to 58,000 persons will be on hand to watch the performance, and at least 20,000 others will not be present only because of the Stadium's space limitations...