Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thumper Hank Johnston released a from chart on the Harvard-Yale, Oxford-Cambridge track teams yesterday, and according to the statistics, the Americans should win when the two squads renew their traditional series in the Stadium a week from Monday...
...liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...
Unable to seat the crowd in a local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
Running events will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Stadium...
Saturday also served as final time and distance trials for the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge Meet, which will be held in the Stadium here June 20. On the basis of Harvard's poor showing, the varsity will only be able to make one entry, two-miler John Cogan, while Yale will enter 16 varsity men in the international meet. Both teams, will enter three members of the Class...