Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrick D. Dalley of Eliot House and Dallas, Tex.: '47 and '48 Student Council; Co-founder Crimson Key Society; Chairman, Student Council Committee on Revision of Harvard Stadium Seating Plan; Freshman and JV Basketball...
...York Rangers skated onto the ice of drafty Chicago Stadium one night last week, a somber figure watched unobtrusively from a mezzanine seat. For the first time in 22 years, 47-year-old Frank Boucher was neither in a Ranger uniform nor on the Ranger bench. Boucher, one of hockey's greatest centers, had stepped down as coach of the last-place Rangers, though he would continue as manager. In his spot on the bench sat a big handsome blond in a polo coat, a member of hockey's first family...
...Ferencvaros is the name of a middle-class district in Budapest, also the name of Hungary's oldest and best soccer club. The team's rooters are anti-Red. Two weeks ago Ferencvaros played the all-Communist Iron Workers, Rakosi's own club. Into the Ferencvaros stadium, on Ulloi Ut, crowded 25,000 fans. Rakosi's team fell behind. Inflamed Ferencvaros rooters began to shout: "Kill those Communist...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...
...stuff at CalTech, which has always gone in for rough and noisy engineering. But until World War II, Princeton's academic calm was almost unbroken. Toward war's end it went jet with a bang. The screaming roar of rockets and ramjets in the laboratory behind Palmer Stadium outshouted the football enthusiasts. Already the staff of the psychology department laboratory, next door, has decided to move to a quieter spot...