Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you get to the Stadium this afternoon you'll see hawkers waving two kinds of A. A. News in the air. Buy them both. Open them both. Each has the customary lineups and Chesterfield ads in the center fold. But as you thumb through one of them, something will strike you funny. And if you look carefully, you will discover the Lampoon has done it again...
...sellout Stadium, along with the first television coverage and a 23-station radio hookup, will give this afternoon's Harvard-Yale game the biggest audience in the 65-year history of the annual classic...
...inside the stadium itself the varsity worked out doggedly and quietly before 57,000 empty seats, oblivious of the cheers and yells outside. It was the same routine the squad had run through every Friday afternoon all season, and only the presence of a few more newsmen and a few more workers on the roof denoted the biggest of all days ahead...
...football--and the Yale game--with what William James called the "moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...
...hard over drills and diagrams, and they deserve the backing of the fans. But this year, as in many years past, both teams are slamming each other to gain next to last place in a slightly dubious Big Three championship. The men who left the middle West for Harvard Stadium this week could have seen a finer brand of football by staying home...