Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason is simple. Sitting in the Stadium along with 57,000 other spectators Saturday will be 18 men with notebooks. They are scouts for teams Harvard will play next year, and some of them will come from as far away as the Pacific Coast for this game...
...side, but although he's been coaching here all fall, Madar saw his first Harvard game last Saturday in the Stadium. As a member of backfield Coach Davy Nelson's scouting corps, he had previously been out on the road every Saturday...
...these days of high-pressure scouting single-game staffs of three or four men are not uncommon. Cornell had five observers in the Stadium pressbox taking notes on Harvard and Columbia the same Saturday Madar was working at Franklin Field. Colleges treat rival scouts much the same way nations treat each other's diplomatic couriers--with a sort of "we'll be nice to yours if you'll be nice to ours" attitude...
...accordance with his policy of "saving a few surprises for Yale," Valpey ran the team through some plays against the jayvee which none of the local scribes present ever had seen performed either on the practice or Stadium fields before...
...actual workout, Henry Lamar's freshman team impersonated the Bulldogs and ran through Yale plays for nearly an hour while the varsity set up its defenses. Although the jayvee generally runs the opposition plays, the task of impersonating Saturday's Stadium enemy fell to the '52 men because of the great similarity between the Yale and freshman T attacks...