Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoke and flame bursting through the roof and windows of the second story of the Carey Cage threatened serious destruction to the Stadium at Soldiers's Field yesterday afternoon before the fire was brought under control...
Gould was working at the Business School courts when he observed smoke coming from the second story windows of the Carey building, a small frame and stucco structure lying almost adjacent to the northeast corner of the Stadium. Two minutes after he turned in the alarm, the Boston Fire Department, District 11, consisting of two ladder trucks and three engine trucks arrived on the scene. The first alarm was turned in at 3:28 o'clock...
...estimated by the fire officials that had the blaze reached serious proportions that the steel girders supporting the stadium might have been warped in the heat, thus causing serious damage to the structure. University officials have not as yet made any statement concerning damage or plans for repairs...
Connecticut showed its wares for the press in the Stadium yesterday afternoon, with the Huskies running through plays from its single wing and later practicing kickoffs with Walt and Milt Dropo the leading lights. Harlow's eleven showed up later, posed for pictures, and ran through a short drill which also featured kickoff practice...
...infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms with the Harlowmen...