Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provincetown blonde wanted to show me the Village, and I showed her Palmer Stadium. She wanted to know why Harvard never carried the ball. It was too much to explain to her. She never did understand that Art Hyde, despite getting a rough going over, was buzzing the Princetons like a fighter plane after a flock of heavies. She couldn't comprehend either that it was possible to make every mistake in the game, and still remain a team...
Slow men will run fast and fast men--well, they'll just "take off," as backfield Coach Davy Nelson would say--when Harvard and Yale meet for the sixty-fifth time today at 1:45 p.m. in the Stadium. Approximately 57,000 partisans have anteed up as much as $30 apiece for the privilege of watching the Crimson and the Blue match new coaches against each other for the first time since...
...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...
This sort of stuff is a tradition at Harvard-Yale football games that not even prohibition could spoil. Although the WTCU will tell you that nobody could get hold of liquor in those days, old alumni insist that Stadium swizzhing never reached its peak until the 1920's. The CRIMSON of 1927 reported that "today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking indoors...
...despite the rugged schedule, Hickman, Jacunski, Kopp, and ace scout Jack Levelle were all on hand November 6, to watch the ill-fated Harvard-Princeton game at Palmer Stadium, while Bob Margarita remained at the Bowl to held off the powerful Kings Point eleven...