Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine that Joe, the most popular player alive, was having his "day." To the 69,551 in Yankee Stadium, it was even better that he was back in the lineup. The Yankees, who had held onto first place since the very first day of the season despite 70 injuries to their players, had fallen a game behind. In one of the most frenetic baseball weeks since 1908,* Joe McCarthy's Boston Red Sox had taken over first place. In the National League, Burt Shotton's Brooklyn Dodgers had been suddenly handed a one-game lead when...
...largest band in Harvard's history will enter the Stadium this afternoon eight minutes before game time for its Soldiers Field debut. Outnumbering even the record breaking group of undergraduates and alumni that played at last year's Yale contest, the 150-piece band will produce both a pre-game and half-time drill...
...impossibility of handling more than 150 men in Stadium drills was the main limiting factor in the Band's size this year. Over 110 freshmen competed for positions, but only 38 could be accepted, Finney stated...
Cornell is the best football team Harvard will face in the Stadium all fall. It has depth, experience, and tremendous team speed, speed great enough to cause Art Valpey to rate it one of the four fastest teams in the country. And Coach George "Lefty" James never had it so good...
...brief look at the season totals for 1948 shows the worth of Lefty James' high speed football, and it is good to note that the team which compiled these records is virtually the same team Harvard plays in the Stadium this afternoon...