Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right at the start of last week's title bout in half-filled Yankee Stadium (crowd: 39,827), Tony showed that he was going to slug it out Rocky's way. Midway in the first round he lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion...
Boasting 14 returning lettermen, the Jumbos will bring to the Stadium a team far more mature than the aggregation which edged out an informal Harvard eleven by a 7-0 score last fall. The roster abounds with 24-and 25-year olds, many of whom have been hardened by service experiences, and the combined tonnage of the Jumbo line comes close to the distance between two stars...
...scrimmage session, tailback Jim Noonan, a shifty runner in the open field, bad a good day, and wingback Pete Harwood, a left-handed passer who may make his 1946 Stadium debut in Saturday, drew praise for his efforts. Jack Fisher, who is expected to alternate with Charley Glynn again at center, was blocking well...
...almost like pre-war--almost, that is, except for the crowd, which left great bare places in the Stadium that were more reminiscent of "informal" games than of 1941 or '42. The band was there, and the cheerleaders, and even Coach Harlow sitting grim as over in back of his eager players, neat but not gaudy in his blue worsted and Varsity Club...
...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...