Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well so far, but the boys are doing a great job and improving steadily, and you can look for a good game from them tomorrow." So spoke Henry Lamar yesterday about the Freshman football team which faces the Dartmouth Freshman eleven this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Stadium...
...Four Horsemen has Old Man Money run so rampant on the nation's football gridirons. As the turnstiles click out the greatest attendance record in history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh-water deans rarely overlook...
...Varsity. Although the Green has dropped four successive contests, they are expected to be hard to beat on their home field, and possess dangerous backs in Con Pensavalle, the team's best passer, fullback Tom Douglas, the captain and Larry Bartnick who had a field day at the Stadium...
...football psychoanalysis will be the biggest new development in the game since the T formation was reincarnated. No one can safely predict who is going to win these days unless he knows what mood the athletes are in around two o'clock Saturday afternoon. The late debacle in the Stadium, together with the Princeton-Penn upset down in Franklin Field, show that, all other factors being about equal, the team that is "up" for the game will...
Everyone agrees that the Scarlet were the smartest, best-coached outfit to visit the Stadium since 1942, and from a purely esthetic point of view, their alert backing-up and silk-smooth offensive machinations were delightful to behold. And throughout the nation this year, past season records, the size of undergraduate bodies, and batteries of press agents don't mean too much, for only eleven men are allowed to play at one time...