Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corners of the nation are gathering for the battle, with late arrivals including President Truman, Tommy Manville, Rose La Rose, Earl Wilson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, J. Barnuman Bailey, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Preparations to hold all the spectators are still proceeding at the Stadium; temporary cheering stands with built-in flags are going up through the night...
Taking firsts in 11 of the 18 events, the track team surprised no one and downed Yale by a score of 81 2/4 to 53 1/2 Saturday afternoon in the Stadium. It was the Crimson's third consecutive victory...
...Yale Saturday. That's the way I feel and I'm sure that's the way the team feels too. Although feeling is high in Cambridge that Yale has as much chance of winning, the fiftieth dual meet between the two rivals, this afternoon at 2:30 in the Stadium, as Harvard does of dropping intercollegiate football. Mikkola is making no concessions to his own outfit...
...with ankle trouble, holds the Harvard record for the 220 of 21.3 seconds which he set on May 30, 1941. He will not run the 220 this afternoon, though; he will be seen in the 100 and the broad jump. Withington pulled a muscle who weeks ago in the stadium and has been taking it easy ever since. He is slated to run in the quarter mile. Wharton will appear in the low hurdles...
...advantage for the spectators in this meet over the last one is that the javelin throw will be held inside the stadium, rather than behind the baseball stands...